Weather station temperature claims overheated, report claims: U.S. temp record ‘U.S. has been systematically overinflated due to faulty data manipulation and ‘encroaching urbanity’
'They started making what they called corrections after the year 2000, which turned the U.S. temperature trend from completely flat to fairly steep warming. That's what Watts was questioning. The corrections were changing the temperature record,' Climate blogger Steven Goddard said. Several large adjustments hadn't been documented at all, boosting readings by as much as 1.5 degrees over older measurements'