From the American Spectator:
This gem from Spain — Madrid’s mayor proclaimed massive air pollution reductions except, ah, "The state prosecutor’s office found that in 2009 the Madrid municipality had quietly moved nearly half its pollution sensors from traffic-clogged streets in the city centre to parks and gardens" — reminds us of the cheapest way to cool the planet:
Reopen the Canadian and Siberian temperature stations closed ca. 1990, prompting ‘the hottest decade on record’.
Now, is there any other data that would corroborate this view of the data? Have not gone looking, but it has been demonstrated that many of the temperature sensors that have been used for long periods of time that used to be in rural areas are no longer. Simply, growth has happened. It also needs to be seen if the proportion of rural / urban sensors has changed – and if so, how the "data" has been massaged (re: Climategate)?
