NOAA claims that July, 2012 was the hottest month on record in the US, and this proves global warming.
the month of July was the warmest on record for the contiguous United States
The only forcing going on here is that NCDC is tampering with the data. They show July, 2012 as being the hottest.
But the actual thermometer data they use shows a completely different story. The animation below flashes between the measured and reported temperatures. Prior to NCDC tampering, July 2012 was fourth warmest after the low CO2 years of 1901, 1936 and 1934.
Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/
The next graph shows the magnitude of their data tampering. They chopped from 1.3 to 2.5 degrees off all of the hottest years, in support of their junk science hypothesis.
Hot summer weather and CO2 have nothing to do with each other. Even the EPA understands this.
Heat waves occurred with high frequency in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record (see Figure 1). Many years of intense drought (the “Dust Bowl”) contributed to these heat waves by depleting soil moisture and reducing the moderating effects of evaporation.
• There is no clear trend over the entire period tracked by the index. Although it is hard to see in Figure 1 (because of the extreme events of the 1930s), heat wave frequency decreased in the 1960s and 1970s but has risen since then (see Figure 1).
www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf
Summers during the 1930s were much hotter than 2012, and NCDC is doing the country a great disservice by lying about this. CO2 and heatwaves show zero correlation.
A lot of heads should roll for foisting these lies on the public. I want to know their justification for warming the present and cooling the past in plain English. Intuition says it should be just the opposite with the increasing Urban Heat Island Effect around all these suburban airport locations.
Also, God knows what kind of fraud there must be with station siting and thermometer calibration, given their obsession with this agenda.
If I am not mistaken, a Tmax should not change w.r.t. Tobs so should be immune from
their tampering. It is only when they use Tavg and adjust it with Tobs changes that it should shift.
So high temp. records, if you use Tmax, should actually be perfectly fine to use.
Yes, and the Tmax data is even much more damning to the climate fraudsters at NOAA.
Re-posted at DTT dot com
The correlation of corrupt practices and climate science is rather strong.
From climategate to Peter Gleick to the relentless obvious tampering of data climate science depends on corrupt practices.