WEATHER DATA COLLECTION UNDER FIRE

"Requirements aren't very strict for volunteers: They need a modicum of training and decent vision in at least one eye to qualify. And they're expected to take measurements seven days a week, 365 days a year.
That's a recipe for trouble, says Watts, who told FoxNews.com that less scrupulous members of the network often fail to collect the data when they go on vacation or are sick. He said one volunteer filled in missing data with local weather reports from the newspapers that stacked up while he was out of town."

With these words more questions were raised about the entire system for collecting weather data. Click here for the full eye opening report. The deeper Anthropogenic Warming critics dig the more they are finding. It was past time to shine a light on this whole industry. These are the people Al Gore relied on. Instead they led him to ridicule. Remember the "Hottest October Ever" story posted herein on February 9, 2009? In Russia the budget was short on data collection money so they just used September's readings all over again for October. We were questioning data collection then. Glad the rest of the world is catching up.