For years we have been seeing graphs like this one for Bangkok, showing how the city is going to get insufferably hot in the coming years becuse of CO2 induced global warming, with frightening rises in sea level. My village neighbor way up on the Korat plateau even asked me if he should be worried about the sea rising that high.
But wait a minute here... a few years back the Japanese researcher Taniguchi had been doing some careful measurements of ground temperatures over the years and he raises some questions about all of this.
For example in this graph he compares Bangkok temperatures at Don Muang airport -- the usual historical measurement spot -- with temperatures in Lopburi. Seems that the airport temps are rising, but not those in the countryside. Think about that for a minutes. Aren't airports where most temperatures showing "global warming" are measured?
Here is a satellite image of the ground surface temperature of Bangkok in 2009.
So the question is, is most of the alleged "global warming" in Thailand (and elsewhere?) really just urban heat island effects around old airports where temperatures are measured?
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