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The National Weather Service tweeted yesterday that March was coldest on record at many locations in Upper Michigan. I responded by pointing out that NCDC said March was only fifth coldest in Michigan.

https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/456483610149654529

NWS responded by saying that the temperatures in lower Michigan must have been warmer, and I pointed out that record ice on Lake Erie made that implausible. NWS didn’t have an explanation and left it up to NCDC to explain the discrepancy – which of course they didn’t.

HCN data shows no trend in Michigan March temperatures since 1895, but NCDC reports a 3.8 degrees/century warming trend.

The USHCN adjustments are astonishing – almost five degrees between 1895 and 2014. Apparently the freezing point of water must have changed and the record ice on Lake Erie at the end of March is meaningless. The adjustments are peer-reviewed, which trumps reality.

The next graph shows the total difference between NCDC reported temperatures and GHCN HCN raw temperatures

Environment Canada shows Great Lakes ice coverage as being completely unprecedented. Perhaps the freezing point of water has changed, due to an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction CO2?

The IPCC says the world is burning up

The real world says differently.

• No global warming for over 17 years
• Global sea ice area is near an all-time record high for mid-April
• Great Lakes ice cover is the highest on record for mid-April
• Antarctic sea ice area is the highest on record for mid-April
• Arctic multi-year ice way up over the last three years
• Record low tornado activity in the US since the start of 2012
• Near record low hurricane activity in the US over the past five years
• No major hurricanes in the US for almost nine years – a record
• No hurricanes in Florida for almost nine years – a record
• Last year was the quietest Atlantic hurricane season in decades
• Coldest four months on record in much of the midwest

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Climate experts announced yesterday that the polar vortex which brought cold weather to the east this winter, was caused by missing Arctic ice.

Additional research has determined that the Arctic Vortex was directly caused by Reggie’s blowtorch, which melted the ice.

http://buyplumbingonline.co.uk/products/Arctic-VORTEX-Professional-Blowtorch-VT1.html

Climate experts announced yesterday that a missing ice cube in the Barents Sea threatens Earth’s survival.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent.png

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/prodsByState.php?state=MI&prodtype=public

h/t to Andy DC

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/13/world/un-climate/

It isn’t difficult slowing a non-existent warming trend.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2001/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2001/trend

This graph gives a good feel for how uniquely cold the weather has been in the midwest this year. Great Lakes ice cover is more than double the previous record.

http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/prods/CVCHDCTGL/20140414180000_CVCHDCTGL_0007617826.gif

The National Weather Service said that March temperatures in Michigan were  1st-4th coldest, yet NCDC reported them as 5th coldest – due to NCDC data tampering of course.

Never mind that the Great Lakes blew away all records for ice in March, NCDC claims peer review for their data tampering. Perhaps their peers changed the freezing point of water.

https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/456408078426976256

For the second year in a row, NCDC adjusted US March temperatures upwards by 1.5 degrees, making for a total adjustment since the 1920s of about 3 degrees.