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PolitiFact - Fact-checking a talking point about ‘corrupted’ climate change data
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There is widespread consensus that average temperatures are rising both in the U.S. and globally. There is no merit to the claim that 96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted.

and produced. That report analyzed a small sample of 128 temperature stations out of several thousand volunteer-run stations and found that 96% of them failed to meet NOAA placement recommendations. It appears those findings were extrapolated to conclude that the placement of these temperature stations"strongly undermines" the legitimacy and magnitude of long-term climate change trends.

Donald J. Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois, characterized Watts as a"well-known climate denialist."How data is collected NOAA and the National Weather Service have two programs that monitor weather conditions in the U.S., said Robert Rohde, lead scientist at Berkeley Earth, a Berkeley, California, organization providing global temperature data.who record daily temperature data using weather monitoring equipment.

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