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I strongly agree that we need transparent fresh data gathering, and I strongly urge you to urge your side to spend the money to gather new measurements, and to make those measurements available transparently! I will on my part urge my side to do the same. In the strongest possible way.
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Not so much fresh data as rating the current data collection - and watts is already doing it.
http://www.surfacestations.org/
Him and his team of volunteers are visiting every surface temp station and photographing and rating it. With so much urbanisation happening in the US many temp stations have had whole towns grow up around them or seen grass airstrips turn into international airports. Rather than just guess at the effect, this lot are rating each station.
Beacuse the US has so many stations it can have a big impact on the global average. This data is used by Hansen in GISStemp. Hottest ever.
And all done by volunteers, not a drop of big oil money in sight.