Urban Heat Island myth passed around by denialists
Here's the response: The Surface Temperature Record and the Urban Heat Island
As for the rest of Daly's "argument", he should take the ExxonMobil funding and do some peer-reviewed science, rather than just spout inaccurate stuff like Peiser did in attacking the Oreskes' reviewed work on the global warming consensus.
BTW, James Woolsey is a hardcore neocon, so if he's a Democrat, he's not an ordinary one.