Ten Years After The Heatwave

The summer of 2003 was very hot in Europe, and climate experts declared it the “new normal.”

And now …..

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Spain braces for ‘coldest summer in 200 years’ – The Local

 

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11 Responses to Ten Years After The Heatwave

  1. gator69 says:

    Who names these charlatans as ‘experts’? I can claim to be the King of Siam, but does noone fact check anymore?

  2. Billy Liar says:

    With over 40% of the year gone already the UKMO HadCET temperature is currently sitting 1.00°C below the 1961-1990 mean. The year 1963 came in 1.00°C below the mean; you have to go back to 1892 to find a year colder than 1963 (at -1.30°C). Something to watch if the NH summer turns out to be cooler than normal.

    In other news, Phil Jones has a new paper out in GRL subtitled ‘we don’t need no stinkin’ data’:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50425/abstract

    • tckev says:

      Nice find!
      Now that’s an interesting line or two from the abstract –

      We have ignored all air temperature observations and instead inferred them from observations of barometric pressure, sea surface temperature, and sea-ice concentration using a physically-based data assimilation system called the 20th Century Reanalysis. This independent dataset reproduces both annual variations and centennial trends in the temperature datasets, demonstrating the robustness of previous conclusions regarding global warming.

      Hey, lets all run-off and infer our data indirectly because all that temperature measurement error stuff plays hell with the theory.

      • Ben says:

        Someone brush these people upside the head with a Macadamia. They are nuts. There have been many times that the temperature has passed the 70 degree mark where I live, at many different pressures. Was it cold when Camille, Opal and Ivan passed over, or warm?

        What is the relation of barometric pressure to temperature? What the heck does sea surface temperature and ice extent have to do with the temperature in Kansas?

        Besides temperature and grant money, what is up with all the reanalysis projects?

  3. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    And 1816 was ‘the year without summer’ in part because of the enormous Tambora eruption in 1815.

    Just hope that Katla or Hecla don’t blow their top.

  4. Moh Kan Wu says:

    Bible Messenger Deliver the Message
    The End Day of Earth comes 2019

    Detailed information link to
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/143332011/Bible-Messenger-Deliver-the-End-of-Day-of-Earth-Begin-2019

  5. F. Guimaraes says:

    Cycle 23 had many large flares, which directly affect the climate specially in periods of low cloudiness and weak magnetic field on Earth.
    On page 9 of the following presentation by Dr. Guhathakurta, from NASA (2011),
    http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/pres/stsc2011/tech-14.pdf
    we find a list of the 10 greatest solar flares since 1976,
    Strongest X-ray Flares since 1976
    1.November 4, 2003 X28+
    2.April 2, 2001 X20.0
    3.August 16, 1989 X20.0
    4.October 28, 2003 X17.2
    5.September 7, 2005 X17
    6.March 6, 1989 X15.0
    7.July 11, 1978 X15.0
    8.April 15, 2001 X14.4
    9.April 24, 1984 X13.0
    10.October 19, 1989 X13.0
    and the following list comes from the Cliver-Svalgaard paper (http://www.leif.org/research/1859%20Storm%20-%20Extreme%20Space%20Weather.pdf)

    04 Nov. 2003 X28 Newport 63 115
    28 Feb. 1942 – Eskdalemuir 63 112
    28 Oct. 2003 >X17 Tamanrasset 36 111
    01 Sep. 1859 – Greenwich 44 110
    15 Jun. 1991 >X12 Hyderabad 22 95
    06 Jun. 1991 >X12 Guam 20 90
    15 Apr. 2001 >X15 Tamanrasset 34 85

    where the last number is the “amplitude” (nT). The paper has more lists and comparisons with the Carrington Event of 1859.
    The majority of the flares are from cycle C23 (5) followed by cycle C22 (3, all in 1989) and 2 in C21… 10 years later, the greatest flare so far in cycle C24 is an X6.9 in August 9, 2011 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare).
    No wonder the climate was hotter before and it’s cooling now.

  6. Stephen Richards says:

    I don’t know of a Meteo channel but Meteo France, the national weather and climate service is real and they are, like the germans, rabid AGW people. However, this is already the worst spring here in SW France in living memory, my heating is still on, the swimming pool is around 15°C when it is normally in the 20°s, my melons are over 3 weeks late into the ground, the Haricots had to be pre-germinated and I bought english potatos because I lost all of last year’s french crop due to a cold spring. The english pots are doing very well.
    Winter was long but not abnormally cold unlike 2011/2.

    So anecdotal but real.

  7. Stephen Richards says:

    Bruce of Newcastle says:

    May 29, 2013 at 12:37 am
    And 1816 was ‘the year without summer’ in part because of the enormous Tambora eruption in 1815.
    Just hope that Katla or Hecla don’t blow their top.

    That’s what I have been saying.

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