On April 12, 1972 – nineteen Oklahoma HCN stations reached 100 degrees, and Mangum reached 106 degrees. Temperatures in Mangum today are forecast to be half that, at 53 degrees.
GHCN command used to generate this data
./ghcn.exe OK.txt through=0412 > OK.csv
If this happened today, climate experts would cite it as 100% proof of global warming, and James Hansen would say it was impossible with CO2 below 350 PPM.
US temperatures through April 12 are fifth coldest on record, and the coldest in 35 years.
GHCN commands used to generate this data
./getdaily
./ghcn.exe US13042014.txt through=0412 > US13042014.csv
The winter of 1977 was very similar to the winter of 2014 in the US. It was warm in Alaska and the west coast, and very cold in the midwest and the eastern US.
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The jet stream was positioned very similarly during winter 1977, as it was this winter.
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But what was different from winter 2014, is that scientists blamed it on global cooling and the coming ice age instead of global warming and the coming meltdown.
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97% of scientists believe that ants walking affect Earth’s rotation.
Therefore, the overwhelming consensus of scientists believe that ants control the Earth.
Five years ago, crack government scientists announced the official demise of multi-year sea ice.
The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/29/us-climate-canada-arctic-idUSTRE59S3LT20091029
And now, half of the Arctic Ocean is covered with thick, impenetrable multi-year ice.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2014/04/arctic-sea-ice-at-fifth-lowest-annual-maximum/
As Antarctic sea ice area soars to record highs, the geniuses at Time Magazine say that penguins are threatened by melting sea ice.
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1938690_1988641,00.html
One of the standard claims of global warming hysterics, is that global warming makes DC cherry blossoms bloom earlier. Sadly for them, the past two years were both very late – and only the volcano cooled year of 1993 beat 2014, by one day.
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/about/bloom-watch/
In 2005, hurricane expert and National Hurricane Center Science Officer Chris Landsea, quit the IPCC over bogus claims Trenberth made – which were in direct conflict with the actual science.
January 17, 2005
Shortly after Dr. Trenberth requested that I draft the Atlantic hurricane section for the AR4’s Observations chapter, Dr. Trenberth participated in a press conference organized by scientists at Harvard on the topic “Experts to warn global warming likely to continue spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane activity” along with other media interviews on the topic. The result of this media interaction was widespread coverage that directly connected the very busy 2004 Atlantic hurricane season as being caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas warming occurring today. Listening to and reading transcripts of this press conference and media interviews, it is apparent that Dr. Trenberth was being accurately quoted and summarized in such statements and was not being misrepresented in the media. These media sessions have potential to result in a widespread perception that global warming has made recent hurricane activity much more severe.
I found it a bit perplexing that the participants in the Harvard press conference had come to the conclusion that global warming was impacting hurricane activity today. To my knowledge, none of the participants in that press conference had performed any research on hurricane variability, nor were they reporting on any new work in the field. All previous and current research in the area of hurricane variability has shown no reliable, long-term trend up in the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones, either in the Atlantic or any other basin. The IPCC assessments in 1995 and 2001 also concluded that there was no global warming signal found in the hurricane record.
Over the past 10 years it appears that Trenberth’s misbehavior has gotten even worse. Now he just skips the science and goes directly to the politics.
I have made quite a few updates to my GHCN code, which is primarily targeted at the US HCN database – though it will work with any GHCN data set. The release includes seven files, compressed into file ghcn.tgz
getdaily GHCN.cpp GHCN.h ghcnd-stations.txt Main.cpp Makefile stations.txt
getdaily is a tcsh script for downloading and organizing the latest HCN daily temperature database from NOAA. It takes about an hour to run over a very fast link. It generates 49 .txt files – one for the US and one for each of Obama’s 57 states.
The code is C++ and consists of three files : Main.cpp GHCN.cpp GHCN.h. It should compile without warnings on g++ or Visual Studio compilers. The Makefile works on any gnu system, like Linux. On Cygwin, the suffix “.exe” gets added. To use Visual Studio, you will have to create a project and import the three code files.
There are a lot of new options
stations.txt must be in the same directory as the executable. Typical usage would be
./ghcn.exe NY.txt > NY.csv
That reads all NY records and outputs the results to a NY.csv file
The rest comes in the category of “either you can figure it out now, or you need two years of education to figure it out”
My critics will enjoy looking through this and seeing that (unlike them) I am not doing anything to bias the output data one way or another. That is because (unlike them) I am an actual scientist – and an honest person.
