By Elmer Beauregard
In my original blog entry December 9th I talked about a worldwide temperature chart and said that it was inaccurate because of the large amount of weather stations that went offline when the USSR collapsed around 1990.
I pointed out that this brought the number of reporting weather stations around the world down from a high of 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 in 2000. This takes some of the coldest places on the planet out of the equation, like Siberia.
I received some criticism for not mentioning any sources, so I made this Google map with some of the weather stations from the former USSR that went offline in the 80s and 90s (most closing around 1990). Based on this GISS website.
If you click on the blue circles it will tell you the name of the station and how many years it was in operation. A lot of them were in operation for 100 years or more.
I'm still adding to the map I have around 200 placed so far, here is the Excel File I'm working from. I will try to eventually put a link on each station with its GISS chart as well.
Here is the chart I made.
Here is the chart that it is based on.
Coincidentally it matches up quite nicely with NASA's recently skewed data.
Maybe this is why Russians don't believe in Global Warming, or Russian Scientists.
Here are the charts from Minnesota.
Nice job! And a lot of work I guess ...
Elmer,
Maybe you can start a sister sight in Russia. Sounds like the Russians are all on board for more global warming as they are predicting an ice age.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-earth_ice_age-0
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me.