Monthly Archives: July 2012

July 4, 2012 at 2:44 am

Fifteen years of no temperature rise, while government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to scare us over a total non-event. Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

John Cook loves to quote the statistic that “there are more record highs than record lows” in recent years. Well surprise, surprise surprise. Study after study has shown that urbanization keeps nighttime temperatures up. This has been understood for hundreds of years. … Continue reading →

It’s easy to confuse current weather events with long-term climate trends, and hard to understand the difference between weather and climate. Does cold weather disprove global warming? John Cook wrote this in 2010 when he was trying to explain the cold … Continue reading →

Trenberth lives in Boulder, yet seems to know little about the weather in Colorado. In his Judy Woodruff interview, he said that “we don’t expect to see wildfires this early in the season” That is just freaking dense. The worst … Continue reading →

Climate is the long term pattern of weather, and you can’t see long term patterns over a period of one week. Consider Hillsboro, Ohio – the closest USHCN station to Cincinnati. Last week they had three days over 100F, the longest … Continue reading →

Not only are heatwaves becoming less intense and less frequent in Missouri, but they are also starting later. Lebanon, Missouri has had seventy-five May/June days over 100 degrees since 1885. All but four of those days came with CO2 below 350 ppm … Continue reading →

The Greenland ice sheet receives about a metre of snow every year, and most of it never sees any melting. With summer in full swing at -14C, they are digging their way out before next winter hits in about eight … Continue reading →

Heatwaves were much worse in the past in the US. It is important that climate experts honor history, rather than deny it. Lebanon, Missouri is ground zero for the 2012 heatwave. They have seen five days over 100F this year. By contrast, … Continue reading →

All the leading propagandists are now lined up.