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Huge forest fires in the year 1900 in Canada – by June 1.

03 Jun 1900 – FRIGHTFUL FOREST FIRE RAGING IN ONTARIO. LONDON,…

Now that the climate is hot and dry, early forest fires in Canada are a rarity.

Planet to be destroyed after Obama gets voted out in eight weeks.

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added

– James Hansen 2009

President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth’ | Environment | The Observer

Weather Street: 2012 Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Democrats were hoping for a repeat of the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which brought 185 MPH winds to the Florida Coast. Sadly for them, Issac failed to kill any body in Tampa.

1935 Labor Day hurricane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bill Clinton created the subprime disaster which he now blames on Bush.

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
Published: September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

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27 Aug 1910 – LATE CABLES. FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA HEAVY ARTIL…

The Arctic melt season pretty much ended on August 25. That was the last day which JAXA maps showed any noticeable contraction of the ice edge.

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Almost all of the ice pack is covered with fresh snow now, and each Polar bear only has two Manhattans of ice to herself now. Similar to living in Wyoming.

The National Interagency Fire Center lists these fires as the largest in US history.

1. 1871 Peshtigo Fire – 3.8 million acres
2. 1825 Maine Fire – 3 million acres
3. 1898 South Carolina – 3 million acres
4. 1910 Idaho – 3 million acres
5. 1881 Michigan – 2.5 million acres

National Interagency Fire Center

People who claim that fires are getting worse – are imbeciles.

Before USHCN cheating, March of 1910 was the warmest on record in the US. The following summer was also one of the worst on record across the US for forest fires

The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) was a wildfire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km², approximately the size of Connecticut) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana.^[1] The area burned included parts of the Bitterroot, Cabinet, Clearwater, Coeur d’Alene, Flathead, Kaniksu, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, Lolo, and St. Joe national forests. The firestorm burned over two days (August 20–21, 1910), and killed 87 people,^[2] including 78 firefighters.^[3]It is believed to be the largest, although not the deadliest, fire in recorded U.S. history.^[4]

Great Fire of 1910 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There were lots of other huge fires in the US that summer. However, they didn’t have McKitten or Romm to blame the fires on CO2.

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USHCN has updated their “raw monthly” data for August, and the summer of 2012 (June-August) was the 16th hottest in the US. The three hottest summers were 1936, 1934 and 1901.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201209_raw.avg.gz

Even after almost two degrees of upwards adjustments relative to 1901, USHCN was only able to cheat 2012 up to the #4 spot.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201209_F52.avg.gz