SATELLITE DATA: 2008 TEMPERATURES BELOW 30 YEAR AVERAGE

March 1, 2009: "Global Cooling Continues", by James M. Taylor, Senior fellow of The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

"the global databases of [surface station reports] are all contaminated by urbanization, major station dropout, missing data, bad siting, instruments with known warm biases being introduced without adjustment, and black-box and man-made adjustments designed to maximize [reported] warming,” explained D’Aleo." [Joseph D’Aleo, MS, Meteorologist and Climatologist (retired), Executive Director, ICECAP (International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project), Hudson, New Hampshire, U.S.A.]

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