Weather data have been kept at local weather stations all over the world for quite some years.

There are some problems with those data.  The data for rural areas generally show no or insignificant warming trends over time, while some formerly rural stations are gradually being encroached upon by urbanization.  Many of those former rural stations and those that were all along in or near urban centres do show warming trends over the years.  There is such a thing as the Urban Heat Island effect, markedly elevated temperatures in any given urban location (even in small towns) as compared to surrounding rural locations.

Aside from that, one would expect that by inspecting historical weather data and the cries about the global warming crisis promoted by global warming alarmists, first and foremost by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), there should now be a good number of locations in the world that show definitive evidence of pronounced local warming.  It appears that such evidence of a global-warming “crisis” does not exist.

I just spent a few hours checking historical weather data for many locations throughout the world and cannot, for the life of me, detect any signs of problems at any locations.  Pronounced local warming trends at any of the many locations I checked are conspicuously absent.  If anything, there appears to be some cooling instead at many of the locations I looked at.

Give it a try.  Check [1] http://www51.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+Edmonton

Substitute your location of choice for “Edmonton” in the preceding URL or in the web page that will be displayed when clicking on that URL. You will most likely be able to see historical weather data for your location or one near you.

Send a line if your location shows a definite warming trend over the years.

So far, I wonder.  The provincial Government of Alberta recently had to make severe budget cuts to various social programs, such as health care.  Still, it earmarked and kept reserved $2 billion for a program of carbon capture and sequestration, so as to help save the globe from going up in flames due to man-made global warming. Where is the fire?

Our elected officials are chasing after the wrong problem.  It is time to put someone interested in real problems into the driver seat.  Enough of the global-warming scam already.

Update 2009 06 13: The following article sheds more light on the futile attempts to influence climate trends through carbon capture and burial (a.k.a. carbon capture and sequestration).

[2] “Carbon Capture and Burial – a Stupid Answer to a Silly Question.”

May 18th, 2009 by Warwick Hughes By Viv Forbes, Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition.

7th May 2009

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Federal Parliament to stop playing Global Warming politics and focus instead on the irresponsible damage being contemplated by the Cap-N-Tax promises.

In testimony this week to the New Zealand Parliamentary Enquiry into the ETS, the Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that it was impossible to achieve the gigantic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions suggested by various western governments without a crash program of Carbon Capture and Burial (CCB). He expanded on those comments today (quote): ([3] Full Story)

What comes to mind is Sir Christopher Monckton of Brenchley’s admonition, which calls the alarmist climate hype “the most lavishly-funded propaganda campaign by the classe politique since Goebbels tried to make Nazism look good,” and states:

If you wish to raise excessive revenue, be honest about it. Say that you intend to tax and tax and tax again. But desist from claiming that you are raising the revenue with the aim of preventing “climate crisis”.

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