Headlines this summer have announced 2012 as America’s hottest year on record, with particularly brutal heat waves striking the Northeast, and stunning temperature highs all but cooking Death Valley and other Southwest desert hotspots.
What many papers have not pointed out, however, is that 2012 is shaping up to be among the warmest on record worldwide.
Where Has the Heat Been Most Oppresive This Summer? | Off the Road
2012 is shaping up to be one of the coolest years of the last fifteen. Are newspapers obliged to lie?
www.woodfortrees.org/data/rss/from:1997
British Winemakers Say “Cheers” to Climate Change. The unfurling story of Southern England’s new and growing wine industry also seems to leave little doubt that global warming is real.
Summer temperatures in England have been plummeting for almost two decades.
Monthly_HadCET_mean.txt (1659 on)
Death Valley. On July 11, the temperature hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley
In 1913, they had an entire week over 127 degrees.
docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf
One might think that the Smithsonian knows a little bit about history, but apparently that isn’t the case.
