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Summer afternoon temperatures in the US are declining even faster than winter afternoon temperatures

The frequency of 100 degree days is also down 50% since the 1930s.

The frequency of all time record maximums was much higher during the 1930s

Winter afternoon temperatures in the US have declined nearly 1º C since 1930. Winters were warm for a few years around 2000, and then again in 2012 – but the trend is towards markedly colder winters in the US.

Trenberth says that his fake 0.7C rise in temperature is unprecedented, and that climate change is caused by humans. That is why ice cores show 14C variation over time, and no measurable recent change.

This corresponds with the near record high snow extent in the Northern Hemisphere

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/chart_seasonal.php?ui_set=nhland&ui_season=1

For some reason, Trenberth forgot to mention this to the audience yesterday.

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Colorado has had numerous larger rainfalls and floods over the past 130 years. The 1894 flood in Boulder was about four times larger than the 2014 flood.

The USGS flood marker in Boulder creek showed the 2013 flood as being less than a 100 year flood, not a thousand year flood.

A 1965 flood covered almost the entire southeast quadrant of the state.

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And in 1935, Colorado received more rainfall in six hours than Boulder did during the entire week of the 2013 storms.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/archive.html?year=2013&month=09 …

Global warming profiteers depend on the ignorance of their audience.

On April 9-12 1963, temperatures across south Texas ranged from 101 degrees to 112 degrees. This was long before CO2 overheated the atmosphere. The 112 degree temperature in Rio Grande City, Texas was the hottest ever recorded in the US that early in the year.

Trenberth used this slide yesterday during his political rant in Boulder.

He didn’t show the same map from 2013, with 78% of the US below normal temeprature.

He didn’t mention that the thermometer data showed 2013 as tied for eighth coldest on record in the US. He didn’t mention that three other years averaged just as warm as 2012 before tampering.

He didn’t mention that the warmth of 2012 was primarily due to mild winter and spring temperatures, rather than summer heat. He didn’t mention that the summer of 2012 didn’t rank among  the 10 hottest, and that the 10 hottest summers came below 350 PPM CO2.

He didn’t mention that east of the Rockies, the US is having its coldest year on record.

The purpose of his presentation was to mislead the people who pay his salary. Isn’t there a word for that?

The word Judy Curry used was “propaganda.”

Facing the Obama administration’s so-called “war on coal,” some utility officials are warning that fewer coal-fired power plants could leave the U.S. power system vulnerable to blackouts in the near future.

“Regulation from five years ago is closing about 20 percent of the coal plants. Regulations being proposed now could close an additional 20 percent of coal plants. And that creates huge stresses — we’re just not ready for anything like that in this country,” Mike Duncan, from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, told Fox News.

Asked about future regulations, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy suggested the agency is trying to be careful.

“Nothing we do can threaten reliability. We have to recognize that in a changing climate like the one we have recently been experiencing, it is an increasing challenge to maintain a reliable energy supply,” McCarthy said. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/12/epa-coal-rules-leaving-us-vulnerable-to-power-blackouts/

The EPA shuts down power plants, threatening the country’s energy supply, then blames the threat they have created on “climate change.“

US temperatures east of the Rockies are tied with 1899 for coldest on record through April 10.

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/YearTDeptUS.png