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GISS June is out. Year to date average is 0.50, which would place 2012 as the second lowest year since 2004 if the year finished there.

The graph below shows the five year running mean of GISS  in red, with the last two years tacked on at the end (0.51 and 0.50)

Temperatures continue to plummet below Hansen’s Scenario C – which represents humans having disappeared off the planet twelve years ago. The only possible interpretation being that human generated CO2 has little or nothing to do with global temperatures.

Our alarmist friends, being the crooks that they are, will continue to pretend that they don’t notice this disaster.

21 Jul 1936 – FORTUNES MADE OUT OF GRAIN SPECULATION Drought i…

10 Nov 1952 – Dust Bowl Danger

Someone was on here earlier trying to claim that the large adjustments I am seeing are due to not properly adjusting for areal distribution.

What a load of crap – the USHCN stations are intentionally distributed fairly evenly and the same patterns are seen in the state data as are seen in the national data. The 1930s are being cooled in the vast majority of states.

The titles to the graphs are not consistent below, but they all show the same data – NCDC vs. average of all daily data.

Nebraska hottest year – 1934

Ohio hottest year – 1921

Oregon hottest year – 1934

Texas hottest year – 1921

Arizona hottest year – 1896

Tennessee hottest year – 1921

New Jersey hottest year – 1998

Missouri hottest year – 1921

Point 1 : Salon finally figures out that liberals are miserable, and conservatives are happy.

Conservatism makes you happy

Conservatives enjoy life more than liberals. Why left-leaning people should take the “happiness gap” seriously

BY CHRIS MOONEY

In general, political conservatives haven’t been very pleased with a slew of scientific attempts — sometimes dating back well over a decade — to psychoanalyze their beliefs and behavior. Indeed, some on the right wrongly interpret these analyses as implying that conservatives have “bad brains” or a “mental defect.” Yet if psychology-of-politics research is really a veiled attack on the right, then why does it contain so many findings that cast conservatives in a positive light?

Chief among these, perhaps, is the discovery that conservatives, across countries, tend to be just plain happier people than liberals are. That’s not bad news for the right — it’s seriously bad news for the left.

Science – Salon.com

Point 2 : The Dalai Lama says that the purpose of life is to be happy.

Here is the quiz. Vote for one :

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jf17Yo7hBM]

I will refrain from making any insulting remarks about turnips. Katie was too busy looking out the window for a glimpse of Russia, to notice that Biden is an idiot.

A few days ago they were hysterical about Colorado burning, and proclaimed that the worst fire season on record was just getting started.

The National Interagency Fire Center now reports that there are no large fires in Colorado, and that the number of fires in the US has been the lowest for the date since 2003.

National Interagency Fire Center

July 15, 2012 at 12:45 pm

h/t to Billy Liar

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NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

http://news.nationalgeographic.com

Because climate change in the Arctic region is occurring faster and to a greater extent than anywhere else, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free for a short period of time as early as the summer of 2015, according to the 2009 Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report completed by the eight Arctic Council Nations.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/

http://www.350.org/sites/all/files/science-factsheet-updated2011.pdf

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Bookmark this image. It is an important one.

The animation below shows how USHCN turns a measured strong cooling trend since 1930, into a strong computer generated warming trend.

USHCN2 uses a three step process to cool the past and warm the present. Going from the actual measured daily data to “raw monthly” reduces the decline. The TOBS adjustment flips the trend from cooling to warming, and then a final mysterious adjustment creates a strong warming trend.

Whatever the final mysterious adjustment is, it has to include UHI – which would do the exact opposite of what we are seeing.

Watch those older temperatures plummet inside Tom Karl and James Hansen’s computer games, which are used to influence critical US government policy decisions.

They cool the 1930s by 1.3 degrees, and then claim that the past decade has been the warmest by a few tenths of a degree. Enron accountants would be proud of such fine data presentation.

Here is the raw data :
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