CLIMATEGATE SCIENTISTS ADMITS DISORGANIZED DATA BUT THEN DEFENDS IT

Disgraced climategate scientists, Professor Phil Jones, admits that much of his climate data is disorganized. He also states that the source of much of his data is still unclear. However, he then reverses and says that his data will survive scrutiny. This man was contemplating suicide one week ago and now is going on the attack again to blame Mankind for global warming. (Click here for the full story) Thanks to the Telegraph of the UK for the interview. Then he says that despite record snows that satellite data shows that January 2010 was one of the warmest since those records were kept beginning in 1979. I know for a fact that all of January where I am was twenty degrees lower than historical norms. In other news a new study shows that temperatures worldwide have been distorted upward due to city growth and poor placement of measuring devices. Examples include a temperature station in Italy where the measuring devices received jet wash blasts over the thermometer. Another in the UK was surrounded by farmland when installed and is now in the center of an urban heat island. Another in the US is situated in front of an air conditioning vent which only blows out hot air. Must be a 'green' vent with all that hot air. The examples go on in the Telegraph article. I believe they have missed another one and that is paving with asphalt. Ever notice how hot the streets get? Always hotter than the surrounding earth. This has to be a somewhat major effect causing an apparent rise in temperatures. This is no doubt a contributor to the heat island effect in all cities on the planet. Another effect strikes me as a self fullfilling prophecy. Virtually all temperature stations in the world are near an airport or in a city. How can that data possibly be accurate? It would be interesting to condense data from isolated stations (those away from cities) and see how that turns out in relation to warming.