Monthly Archives: August 2012

Record Cold In The Upper Midwest

HAMweather Climate Center – Record Events for The Past Week – Northern Plains View

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What Part Of “The Dust Bowl Ended” Does Eugene Robinson Not Understand?

Monday, 08.13.12 Global warming is here to stay BY EUGENE ROBINSON Excuse me, folks, but the weather is trying to tell us something. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear a parched, raspy voice whispering, “What part of ‘hottest month … Continue reading

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Stupidest Comment of the Week

Someone suggested earlier that GHCN could eliminate a CRU heatwave by using a different baseline, and that I was a liar for not admitting this. Perhaps the thousands of people who died in the 1936 heatwave could be brought back to life -simply by Hansen adjusting the temperature..

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New Spam Policy

This site is getting flooded with idiots posting mindless FUD, who appear incapable of interpreting maps or graphs. If you say the same stupid crap over and over again, you are going to spam.

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Why Talking About An Ice Free Arctic is Just Plain Stupidity

Temperatures have dropped below freezing north of 80N for the winter COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut And most of the Arctic Basin is covered with ice, much of it 3-5 metres thick. N_daily_extent.png (420×500) … Continue reading

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Growth Of Thick Ice Along The Canadian Coast Since 2010

The Guardian claimed today that the ice is getting thinner along the Canadian and Greenland coast, but as usual they have no idea what they are talking about. There is a lot more 3+ metre thick ice than there was … Continue reading

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Hansen Says That Heatwaves Used To Affect Less Than 1% Of The Land Surface

Hansen claims that heatwaves used to be much less extensive. The percentage of the earth’s land surface covered by extreme heat in the summer has soared in recent decades, from less than 1 percent in the years before 1980 to … Continue reading

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Was July, 1901 The Hottest Month In US History?

USHCN “raw” monthly data shows that July, 1901 was the hottest month in US history – ahead of 1936 and third place 2012. July of 1901 was a very hot month. Look at all the USHCN stations which were over … Continue reading

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Worst Drought In 100 Years Hits England

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Hiding The Sharp Decline Of Hot Days In Wisconsin

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin has had 191 days over one hundred degrees since 1900. None of them occurred between 2000 and 2011. The hottest day was July 22, 1901, when the temperature reached 110F – during a streak of eight consecutive days over 100F. … Continue reading

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