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The temperature reported at Austin's airport is consistently a few degrees cooler than at Camp Mabry, the official weather station. This is due to the airport's location away from the urban heat island effect and its positioning in a cooler dip in the ground. Camp Mabry has a longer period of consistent record-keeping and is considered more representative of the weather in Austin.
Meteorologists are facing threats, insults, and slander from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or fixing the weather. Spain's State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) spoke out after its members were threatened in Twitter messages, phone calls, and emails. Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused Spain's weather agency of engineering a drought, Australia's of doctoring its thermometers, and France's of exaggerating global warming through misplaced weather stations. Climate change denial has increased, particularly among far-right supporters who see it as a leftist cause and oppose reforms aimed at curbing its impacts.