Real Climate Science

Graph below overlays NCDC US temperatures (blue) on the 1999 GISS version (red.)

Climate at a Glance | Time Series

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Perhaps Enron accountants found new jobs?

US temperatures have been declining for over 90 years. NCDC tampers with the data to create a non-existent warming trend.

The only years with colder afternoons in the US were 1895, 1912 and (Mt. Pinatubo) 1993.

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

289 record minimums so far, and 13 record maximums.

NCDC is creating a non-existent US warming trend, by cooling the past at 2.2 degrees per century. 2013 set a new record for upwards adjustments.

UN climate chief calls for tripling of clean energy investment | Environment | theguardian.com

Study to See If City Life Alters the Climate Here – Study Will See If City Life Changes the Climate Here – View Article – NYTimes.com

NASA rocket scientists are much smarter now. They may not be able to send men to the moon any more, but their data tampering skills are unparalleled.

The Justice Department is facing mounting criticism after officials said they’ve turned up no evidence that would warrant criminal charges in the IRS targeting scandal, with conservatives now calling the investigation a “sham.”

‘Sham’? DOJ under fire amid claims IRS probe unlikely to yield criminal charges | Fox News

Hansen says that the climate used to be stable and droughts used to be rare before we loaded the dice.

A 1998 study by federal scientists, for instance, found that droughts as widespread and severe as that of the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s, when 65 percent of the country was affected at the drought’s peak in 1934, have occurred once or twice a century over the last 300 to 400 years. A decade-long drought, the study found, occurs about once every 500 years.

More recent analyses of tree-ring data have identified a 16th-century megadrought that affected much of the continent for years, far outstripping any drought of the 20th century in persistence and severity. It was during this drought that the first English colony in America, at Roanoke Island in North Carolina, disappeared, and experts now believe the drought is what killed it off.

Persistent and Severe, Drought Strikes Again – New York Times

 

Democrats Plan to Pressure TV Networks Into Covering Climate Change – NationalJournal.com

h/t to Dave G