Faulty thermometers exaggerated western U.S. mountain warming
Incorrect temperatures were used in snowpack and ecology research

TAINTED TEMPERATURES High-elevation warming in the western United States was artificially inflated by flawed temperature sensors at stations such as this one on Mount Eyak in Alaska, new research suggests.
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