Jet-Fueled Climate Lies, Phoenix Sky Harbor Edition
I entered science to follow evidence… not narratives. Most researchers still do, yet each time a “new record” pops up from a thermometer hemmed in by taxiways and jet engines, the integrity I signed up to protect takes another hit
Last month I caught Tampa’s 100 °F “all-time high” red-handed. The spike lined up with a Delta jet idling next to the sensor, a textbook case of combustion heat dressed up as ‘climate change’.
As I wrote then, we have seen this scam before… manufactured records from poorly located stations ring-fenced by tarmac and exhaust.
Now the playbook lands at Phoenix Sky Harbor. On 7 August 2025, the National Weather Service trumpeted a graphic declaring 118 °F — a new August record.
What the graphic left out:
- The 118 °F reading lasted no more than five minutes.
- It occurred at 3:40 pm, 3:50 pm, 3:55 pm, and 4:00 pm, smack in the afternoon departure rush.
- Winds blew west at 7–9 kts, gusting past 17 kts, steering engine exhaust directly onto the sensor, which sits just 80 m east of Runway 25.
- The moment departures thinned, the temperature slipped back to 117 °F, matching the previous mark.
That single, exhaust-driven blip will now live forever in national climate datasets, nudging trendlines upward and gifting climate alarmists another talking point.
This is not science, this is taxpayer-funded fraud that siphons wealth and freedom under a veneer of ‘records’.
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Your analysis is wholly incorrect about several facts. First off, airport weather stations are critical for air travel safety. Since the critical factor affecting wing lift, is the character and properties of the air, knowing the exact condition of the air on the runways is well, paramount. They are NOT suitable for general weather or climate functions as the air at airports is almost always warmer than the surrounding terrain, due to huge amounts of concrete and asphalt.
That said, the ASOS station at KPHX is located at lat/long 33.4278°, -112.00365° . (look it up on Google Earth) Which is 380 feet directly south of the centerline of runway 25L, and 621 feet west of the threshold for 25L. Wind at your specified time was 260 at 13 kt . The actual magnetic heading of runway 25L is 270 degrees. THEREFORE the wind was blowing any engine exhaust to the NORTH of runway 25L by 10 degrees, while the weather station is 380 feet SOUTH of runway 25L. (not to mention if you actually did an analysis of the ratio of air volume of tens of thousands of cubic meters of air in a 13 knot wind over the whole airport, against the puny by comparison engine core exhaust you would see the hot exhaust is completely diluted by such winds after a short distance of mixing)
Next point is NO commercial airliners take off from the shorter runway 25L. The take off from 25R in case of a rejected takeoff to have the additional length to stop. The shorter runway is used for landing or smaller aircraft, however in this case planes were taking off from 26, and 25R. 25R is 1,150 feet north of the weather station, and runway 26 is 4,750 feet north of the weather station.
So your argument is without merit and frankly does not correspond to facts. Airport weather stations are ONLY for aviation safety, not for general weather or climate purposes. So direct your ire towards those that want to use this data for purposes it was not designed for. And get your facts straight.
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