Forget Climategate: this 'global warming' scandal is much bigger

[Varcht]

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/30/forget-climategate-this-global-warming-scandal-is-much-bigger/

[dalke]

"You'd expect, as a result of this, that recent (ie late 20th century) raw temperature readings from urban areas would be adjusted downwards in order to make them more accurate. Rarely though, is this the case."

There is no significant Urban Heat Island effect as described by that essay. See http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island#Global_warmin... for overviews.

What cinched it for me was the work of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth .