Gov’t Study Confirms Weather Stations Increasingly Surrounded By Heat-Trapping Asphalt, Concrete

A new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study bolsters evidence that weather stations relied upon by government scientists to measure global warming are being encroached upon by heat-trapping, artificial surfaces that can bias thermometer readings. USGS found 32 percent of weather stations in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…