About 6,000 measurement stations
are used by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO).
Europe (excluding France, Spain and Norway),
the US and eastern China are well supplied
with sensors.
There are very few sensors
in Greenland, northern Canada,
central Africa and Australia.
in Greenland, northern Canada,
central Africa and Australia.
Difficult to access areas,
such as mountains,
such as mountains,
deserts and forests,
have few land-based
have few land-based
measurement stations.
NOAA says
it is currently using
just 1,500
it is currently using
just 1,500
of the 6,000 WMO stations.
Buoys are now the
most common method
of measuring sea temperatures.
most common method
of measuring sea temperatures.
According to the NOAA,
(US Commerce Dept.)
there are about 1,300 buoys
operating in the world‘s oceans.
The Gulf of Mexico
and the US west coast
and the US west coast
have many sensors.
The distribution of sensors
in the Pacific Ocean
is uneven, and is inadequate
in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
and near the Poles.
Measurement instruments
are not evenly distributed
throughout the world.
are not evenly distributed
throughout the world.
Huge areas (the Indian Ocean,
Australia, the North Pole,
the South Pole, the North Atlantic
and Canada) have very few sensors,
on land. or at sea.
NOAA has been using
fewer and fewer stations
for their global temperature average.
The Earth has a total surface area
of approximately 500 million km2.
High resolution global analysis
would require the use of
at least five million sensors,
which is 1,600x times more
than the less than 3,000
land and sea stations
currently being used to estimate
the average surface temperature.
There are not enough stations
-- over half of our planet's surface
requires government bureaucrats
to guess the temperature,
because no thermometer data
are available, for the compilation
of a global surface average.
In spite of the
poor distribution of sensors,
and a majority of the numbers
poor distribution of sensors,
and a majority of the numbers
wild guessed by
government bureaucrats,
those bureaucrats claim
an incredibly small
+/- 0.1 degree C.
margin of error,
when an honest
margin of error
would be at least
+/- 1 degree C.
