On the “march of the thermometers”. Missed this one. Anthony Watts pointing to “the hard work of E. M. Smith” on ‘dropped’ weather station records. The accusation is always that stations that are warming faster are being kept, those that are cooling are being maliciously discarded.
Funny, they never seem to mention two things about this:
- The ‘dropped’ stations are stations that aren’t automatically uploaded to the weather databases. They are in fact added intermittently by infrequent manual processes. This means that a station will be in the database, seem to be dropped, and then at a later date reappear with all the intervening years of data.
- The trends for the “dropped” stations and the “kept” stations are the same. The only conclusion that can be drawn is that “colder” stations are more likely to need intermittent manual incorporation into the data set because they are more likely to be remote.
For more on this foolishness, go over to the “Dropouts” post on Open Mind and give your head a shake.
Wott's Up With That? 
And here are the two posts I submitted that did not appear as comments in WUWT:
Deech56,
Not being a scientist, my posts typically do get posted over at WUWT — after Anthony has had a chance to include his reply. I usually lack the expertise to delve into the science the way you do here. Please keep posting here when you think WUWT won’t post. That will be a good way for all of us to see what Anthony is censoring.
Herman L., not sure when I will try to post again at WUWT. I don’t even get the “post in moderation” response. I’m not a climate expert, but sometimes there is an issue that is lacking some kind of response, and I feel I can contribute. It’s at least useful to know in case anyone claims that WUWT allows for free discussion.
The best example of censored comments happened with “Lee”, who was not only deleted, but had many of his posts removed.
BTW, I was banned at America Thinker and my posts removed. Here’s the thread; what’s funny is that there are replies to my no-longer-in-existence posts. Oh well.
Keep posting, but save copies of the posts on your local computer.
All of us who try to ask direct questions that go to the heart of WUWT’s errors — and don’t get posted — need to post simultaneously here to keep Anthony honest. I have no formal training in natural sciences so I cannot ask many of the difficult questions. I hope others can.