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Laurel, Maryland is just down the road. They have recorded three 90 degree days this year – the fewest on record. The average number per year is 29, with a peak of 68 in the year 1900.

Birthers are those disgusting people who claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, in order to gain political or economic advantage.

The original birther seems to have been Barack Obama, who apparently told his literary agents in 1991 that he was born in Kenya.

1991 : Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’

The agency went online in 1998, and still listed him as born in Kenya.

 1998 Client List

By 2005 the profile was updated, and still said he was born in Kenya.

BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, is a New York Times bestseller.

2005 Dystel & Goderich Literary Management

As of February 2, 2007, the profile still said he was born in Kenya

February 2, 2007 Dystel & Goderich Literary Management :: Client List

One week later, on February 10, 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for President

Saturday, February 10, 2007; 3:28 PM

Text of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s speech, as prepared for delivery Saturday in Springfield, Ill., and released by his campaign, in which he announced he is seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2008:

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s Announcement Speech

His profile was changed within a few weeks to say that he was born in Hawaii.

April 21, 2007 Dystel & Goderich Literary Management :: Client List

For 17 years it was advantageous to say that he was born in Kenya, but after he announced his candidacy for president – he needed to be born in the US. Why did Obama choose to lie about his birthplace?

Jose’s Spanish team of the north is playing well.

Reader daveandrews723 got this E-Mail from Reto Ruedy at GISS

It is true that our estimates for the global mean temperature anomalies occasionally change, since we base them on the best currently available data; those do change with time as records from more stations are digitized and made available, as corrections to earlier incorrect reports are obtained, as metadata are used to account for changes in reports that have nothing to do with climate change but were caused by changes in instrumentations, reporting procedure, location of the measuring instrument etc. Finally, those estimates may change slightly as the time series get longer, which allows us to assess better how to combine records from different stations and how to bridge spatial or temporal data gaps. Sometimes those changes result in increasing trends, sometimes trends are decreased. It seems that the sources you consulted cherry-picked the former instances.

A major change that decreased the trend happened when we included ocean temperatures in addition to land based sources only, and a slight decrease was caused when we adjusted the data for urban effects. All other changes had only minor effects on the global means.

Any major changes/adjustments have always been documented on the web and in the scientific literature by the people who made them (mostly NOAA/NCDC) and so did we whenever we adopted those changes, so none of the graphs you refer to is news to us.

Reto Ruedy”

Maybe he isn’t aware of what his team is doing to destroy the global temperature record, but his claims don’t hold up to any scrutiny. The animation below shows NASA changes to the global surface temperature record since 1981.

These are land-only temperatures – so the ocean excuse doesn’t work. The past is always getting colder, and the slope is always increasing. The trend from 1890 to 1978 has increased by 40% since Hansen 1981.

2014 version : data.giss.nasa.gov…….graphs_v3/Fig.A.txt
2012 version : web.archive.org………/graphs_v3/Fig.A.txt
2001 version : wayback.archive.org………graphs/FigA.txt
1981 version : web.archive.org……..Challenge_chapter2.pdf

GISS also overwrites their data as they alter it, and they try to block web crawlers to make it difficult to document their tampering.

The next graph shows the total alterations to the NASA global surface temperature record since 1981.

Perhaps he isn’t aware of what his group at GISS is doing to destroy the integrity of the surface temperature record. His comments above would seem to indicate that.

This week in 1954, Boston’s Old North Church was damaged by hurricane Carol.

Another major (category 3-5) hurricane hit New England ten days later. There have been no major hurricanes in New England since.

At the end of another long hot summer in Greenland, the research station in the center of the ice cap is nearly buried in new snow which accumulated over the summer

summit:status:webcam

Climate experts tell the press that Greenland is melting down, even though their own data shows a net surface gain of 300 billion tons of ice over the past year, and that more than 90% of the surface has gained ice.

Climate experts say that Northeast and Northwest Passages are open for business, but neither will open up this year.

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In 1998, Gavin warned us that climate data sets will be “distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness”

Eos, Vol. 79, No. 28, July 14, 1998

Unless we are vigilant, “data sets” will evolve and data that have been so painstakingly collected and saved will be distorted and twisted beyond all usefulness. Our care in using data should be a force analogous to natural selection, keeping data sets fit for the purposes intended. If we do not take care, the gold standards of climatology may in time turn to lead.

—Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, NY., USA;
E-mail: gschmidt@giss. nasa.gov

All that is labeled data is not gold – Schmidt – 2006 – Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union – Wiley Online Library

And that is exactly what he did. The animation below shows how Gavin has altered the US temperature record since 1998, and turned the gold standards of climatology into lead

h/t to Tom Nelson

The climate left Australia a while back, and now resides in Seattle.

 Mass: This Summer, One Of Hottest On Record, Is What Global Warming Feels Like | KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest

THE Bureau of Meteorology has been accused of manipulating historic temperature records to fit a predetermined view of global warming.
Researcher Jennifer Marohasy claims the adjusted records resemble “propaganda” rather than science.

Dr Marohasy has analysed the raw data from dozens of locations across Australia and matched it against the new data used by BOM showing that temperatures were progressively warming.

In many cases, Dr Marohasy said, temperature trends had changed from slight cooling to dramatic warming over 100 years.

Bureau of Meteorology ‘altering climate figures’ | The Australian