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I have a legitimate question that hopefully someone out there knows:The temperature readings we're getting for the past century and the readings for the past 20 years: where are the weather stations located? The reason I ask is that 100 years ago we didn't have hot tar roofs and hot air-blowing AC units on top of roofs. Yet that is where a lot of these weather stations are located I'm told. So, wouldn't that skew the actual temperatures? I mean, on a hot sunny day, the heat radiating off of a hot roof (or the heat blown out of an AC unit) would make the temp reading inaccurate. No?I used to work in pollen research, and everyday I had to climb up to the roof of our building to collect the samples. In the summer during those 90-degree days, it was fricken HOT up there. But when I got back on the ground it was certainly bearable.
I have a legitimate question that hopefully someone out there knows:
The temperature readings we're getting for the past century and the readings for the past 20 years: where are the weather stations located? The reason I ask is that 100 years ago we didn't have hot tar roofs and hot air-blowing AC units on top of roofs. Yet that is where a lot of these weather stations are located I'm told. So, wouldn't that skew the actual temperatures? I mean, on a hot sunny day, the heat radiating off of a hot roof (or the heat blown out of an AC unit) would make the temp reading inaccurate. No?
I used to work in pollen research, and everyday I had to climb up to the roof of our building to collect the samples. In the summer during those 90-degree days, it was fricken HOT up there. But when I got back on the ground it was certainly bearable.
