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Old 22nd-February-2008, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted by cbacba View Post
Spot also thinks the sat. data matches the surface data.
Satellite data also shows warming.

So your claim that warming is an artefact of the urban heat island effect is clearly rubbish.

The oceans are also warming, and there are no urban districts on the ocean's surface.

So your claim that warming is an artefact of the urban heat island effect is clearly rubbish.

I suspect therefore that the corrections performed by the GISS are not as bad as you are attempting to make out. They make an urban station match the long term trend of nearby rural stations. That will correct for the urban heat island effect.