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
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Compare that (blue rectangle below) to the 2012 fire (red dot below.)
UPDATED: High Park Fire maps and imagery | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com
McKitten is at it again
As the Front Range of the Rockies set all-time temperature records, horrible wild fires obliterated homes in Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.
A Summer of Extremes Signifies the New Normal by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360
Fires happen every year, and we had very few record temperatures in Fort Collins this summer. It was a beautiful summer and I am sad to see it ending so soon .
Here are some massive fires from the days when CO2 was safe.
The greatest forest fire of modern time occurred in Maine and New Brunswick. U.S.A.. in October. 1825. It swept over 3.000.000 acres. Here the flames jumped rivers hundreds of yards in width, and the heat was so terrific that great trees 4ft. in diameter burst into flames like torches and were utter ly consumed in a few minutes.
Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser Friday 31 May 1946
On September 8, 1900 a giant hurricane hit Galveston Island with 145 MPH winds and killed more than 10,000 people.
Had any of Mann’s direct ancestors been there at the time, we wouldn’t have to listen to his bullcrap about hurricanes getting worse.
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 165 million years, when CO2 was much higher. The climate was just fine.
Dinosaurs don’t suffer from neuroses like Democrats.
The stupidest people of modern times meeting again in Charlotte. These hysterical nitwits took control of Congress six years ago and the White House four years ago, and have failed to stop a single natural disaster from occurring.
Climate Change. The national security threat from climate change is real, urgent, and severe. The change wrought by a warming planet will lead to new conflicts over refugees and resources; new suffering from drought and famine; catastrophic natural disasters; … the President and the Democratic Party have steadily worked to build an international framework to combat climate change. …. the Obama administration has taken a leadership role in ongoing climate negotiations
http://assets.dstatic.org/dnc-platform/2012-National-Platform.pdf
Do these mental midgets actually believe that the US controls the climate?
If the current trend of Northern Hemisphere days getting shorter continues, we will be light-free¹ by this time next year.
¹Light-free meaning that there is only one million km^2 of light covered area.
The failure of tree rings since 1960 to produce evidence needed for funding the next climate boondoogle, has led them to graft Obama’s national debt numbers on to the proxy temperature record. The hockey stick is very real.
They normally hold global warming meetings in warm tropical places (like Cancun) because climate scientists despise warm weather.
Fort Collins has warmed twenty degrees in the past four hours. If the current trend continues, temperatures will be 170 degrees by tomorrow morning.
Note that I said “if” which according to Appell et. al. makes it OK to say really, really stupid stuff.
