Yearly Archives: 2019

The House Climate Crisis Committee held their first public meeting here in Boulder today.  Temperature is 80 degrees, and Boulder is the greenest anyone has ever seen it this time of year. The Governor declared a “climate crisis” today – … Continue reading →

On this date in 1715, a massive hurricane struck Florida’s Treasure Coast, sank ten ships carrying Spanish treasure, and killed more than 1,000 sailors.  That is how the Treasure Coast got its name. Democrats would have prevented this tragedy with … Continue reading →

On this date in 1955, every state was over 90 degrees (32C) and 20 states were over 100 degrees (38C.) Hot weather like that is incomprehensible now. TimesMachine: Tuesday August 2, 1955 – NYTimes.com

On this date in 1988, Milwaukee was 108 degrees – more than 30 degrees warmer than today. Almost every state was over 90 degrees. Similar story in 1980.  The stage was set for James Hansen to commercialize the global warming … Continue reading →

The UK had a week of hot weather in early August 2003.  I was there a few days earlier freezing my tail off at the beach in Christchurch. Coldest summer beach day of my life. All of the hottest temperatures … Continue reading →

Taking the average of all GHCN stations in Western Europe, there has been about 8F (4.4C) warming since 1895. This has corresponded with a southward move of about four degrees average station latitude . The rule of thumb is that … Continue reading →

This year (so far) is only the third year since 1895 to post no 100 degree temperatures in the Midwest.  The other two were 1928 and 1992 (after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.) The likelihood of 100 degree weather has … Continue reading →

I’ve developed some new tools which allow me to instantly visualize and analyze huge amounts of data.  For example, this is every single daily maximum temperature record in the GHCN database for Western Europe since 1895. I plan to commercialize … Continue reading →