Originally Posted by Wol (Post 11580332)

You don't just aggregate local stations and get an average that way - over the decades (and remember, we are not talking weather, but trends over many years) stations are moved and added to and retired. If you merely averaged the whole set and took one or two away you completely alter to average either up or down.

There's no row over adding stations except that brewed up by the media and News Corp. Climatologists are not ignorant; they take all factors into account and make adjustments, which are fully audited.

Unless you subscribe to the denial argument that thousands of scientists have colluded in a fraud lasting some fifty years without anyone whistleblowing or even noticing, the science is as near settled as it's possible to be.