We have no accurate surface temperature collection currently...at least not with unmolested data available to the public.

This fact was outed by a researcher and long time weatherman, who surveyed 1007 of the US's network of 1221 volunteer ground stations, finding >90% of them to be out of specifications in 2009. These ground stations are the network of long term volunteers NOAA created for the Climate Reference Network (USCRN), a network designed specifically for assessing climate change.

The NOAA has stated {PDF} that the USCRN stations...

[...] adhere to all of the Global Climate Monitoring Principles and are located are located in areas free local human influences and have excellent site location characteristics. They are closely monitored and are subject to rigorous calibration procedures.

(This monitoring turned out to be a lie as the GOA found, but more on that later) ..and that..

A peer-reviewed study specifically quantified the potential bias in trends caused by poor station exposure (Peterson, 2006).

...so you can bet this is a dirty fraud. So after their yes-man said everything is great, 3 years later, this researcher checked more than 80% of them, find them to be very obviously and seriously out of spec.

Mainly, they were within 30 feet away from heat trapping sources, which cause heat-bias in the readings, such as being near concrete and buildings. This breaks the NAOO standards, which detail the placement requirements for these ground stations. Other improper uses specific to the weather station models were found. They found many which were simply appalling (documented, gps tagged, and photographed). Ground stations next to building air conditioner exhaust outputs, in the middle of parking lots, and even at the location of a natural hot water spring attraction. Obviously, they full-out lied about monitoring and strict adherence. The standards are even more strict now, requiring 100 ft away from structures.

They published this very embarrassing account. It got little time of day at the time, but clues seem to show that some in NAOO were silently freaking out and began working towards a cop-out.

The same researcher went back 10+ years later and confirmed most of the previously checked stations, finding that none of them were fixed, and evaluated a couple hundred new ones which were also problematic. This resulted in finding 96% percent of U.S. temperature stations used to measure climate change fail to meet what the NOAA considers to be “acceptable” and uncorrupted placement by its own published standards.

The researcher published this again and this time with a peer-reviewed study. This got much more traction and the caught the attention of some political groups. This message was more broadly read and the government was actually publicly embarrassed and forced do do something.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230813141816/http://www.surfacestations.org/

The researcher also debunked some Al Gore lies and Bill Nye the science lie's failure to do basic Co2 math. This surely helped to get a million dollar bounty target on his head. After Climate Gate, where the Hockey Stick graph creator was outed for manipulating his data, by his own leaked emails; the cabal was already in a desperate time to maintain the 30+ year global warming lie.

Don't worry; the data is non-public and the dirty University who published his lies without calling out the gaff investigated itself and found everything was just fine! So, the cabal has declared the whole thing a conspiracy theory never to be discussed again. It helped that someone compared the University's covering for the climate fraud, without releasing the data publicly, to them covering for their sexual assaults of the Sandusky coach. This gave the media cabal the ammo they needed to start barking the same Ad hominems about alt-right, dirty conservatives, conspiracy theorist climate deniers, and move along filthy plebs.)

Heavily manipulated and dishonest Wiki page on Climate Gate

Climate Gate was still a hot topic when this 2nd review of the USCRN came out. Despite the Climate Gate University's deluge of "debunkered!" propaganda, along with their appeal to authority with a parade of pay-rolled scientists stating they reviewed the hockey stick chart to be A-Okay, but you still can't check the data yourself, this effort was largely dismissed by the public. They had serious egg on their face. Since then corrupt judges have helped hockey stick jerk sue the journalist {1} {2} who published this information for large sums of money to make up for the sad that comes from getting caught.

So this dirty conspiracy theorist caused all kinds of trouble by simply going first hand to view if these ground stations are properly located. How dare he! It's almost like anyone could go verify he was correct....

The exposed USCRN ground station failures caused so much embarrassment that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate. They went to station locations and did the same as the dirty conspiracy researcher, who is still libelously declared as so! (Recently by USA Today Fatasscherckers,, reeeee!) were confirmed to be garbage, even with a very sympathetic eye.

August 31, 2011, Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Highlights PDF

Full report PDF

According to GAO’s survey of weather forecast offices, about 42 percent of the active stations in 2010 did not meet one or more of the siting standards. With regard to management requirements, GAO found that the weather forecast offices had generally but not always met the requirements to conduct annual station inspections and to update station records.

Of that, they found about 33% to be too close to buildings and about 20% to be too close to concrete or paved surfaces (per the full GAO report's bar chart "Figure 3"). These are the kinds of things that can cause the climate monitoring network stations to read up to 5 F degrees higher that they should, globally warming the data!

...anyways, I'm tired of writing. The NAOO with egg on their face deployed 2000+ new stations, which you can't check or get raw data from. They did this with little fan-fare and lost of propaganda. They openly state that they manipulate the data with algorithms and models, stating that they are try to match the previous >90% flawed data. They've been called out several times over the algorithms they are applying.

It is the dumbest thing ever, just like believing any of these people. It is just another power gram to dictate how people live and slip in just a little more communism on the scale, as usual.