Recognition!

Russ Steele

While Dr. Richard Muller's testimony on his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project yesterday before the House of Representative Committee on Science, Space and Technology has ruffled some feathers among both professional (here), and amateur scientist (here and here), he did recognize the work done by Anthony Watts and his Surface Station Survey volunteers and the fine work of Steven McIntyre in his written testimony.

“Without the efforts of Anthony Watts and his team, we would have only a series of anecdotal images of poor temperature stations, and we would not be able to evaluate the integrity of the data. This is a case in which scientists receiving no government funding did work crucial to understanding climate change. Similarly for the work done by Steve McIntyre. Their “amateur” science is not amateur in quality; it is true science, conducted with integrity and high standards.”

Ellen and I are proud to have been members of Anthony's Surface Station Survey Team, taking picture of stations across the United States.  There are still some missing surface stations yet to be inventoried in out of the way places,  and we plan to seek some of them out this summer on another trip to the East Coast.