Urban heat island effect making temperatures 8F hotter in 65 US cities

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10. Good thing we have entire organizations that evaluate weather data.

Moving a weather station *can* make a huge difference, but blaming this on malicious intent is not very realistic. Unfortunately the means to control the narrative is much more simple - the parties aiming to discount AGW just lie, and when the data contradicts their lies they lie some more. The people who want to believe them will never check the data themselves, so why would anyone bother changing something like the location of a weather station when it's so much simpler to lie and lie and lie?