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Eleven months ago our friends went hysterical over walruses in Alaska.

Aug 19, 2011

An extremely early sea ice melt-off has sent thousands of Pacific walruses onto the beaches of northwest Alaska, placing pups in danger of being crushed on the crowded shoreline for the fourth year out of the past five due to the abnormal weather conditions.

This year’s walrus haul-out, when the lumbering pinnipeds pull themselves ashore, comes a full three weeks earlier than last year’s — a potent symbol, environmental groups say — that global warming is at work.

Walruses haul-out three weeks early, global warming blamed

And today there is more ice than normal around Alaska.

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The height of summer has been reached on the Greenland ice sheet. Temperatures are a balmy -13C, and are about to start their descent towards winter.

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(CNN) — The mainland United States, which was largely recovering Monday from a near-nationwide heat wave, has experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895, a top government science and weather agency announced Monday.

The report from the National Climatic Data Center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, does not take into account blistering heat from this month, with 2,116 high temperature marks either broken or tied between July 2 and July 8 in communities nationwide.

Past 12 months warmest ever recorded in United States – CNN.com

We have been hearing that the last 12 months is the warmest in US history. It is not surprising, because USHCN is massively cheating – by adding 2.5 degrees on to 2012 temperatures relative to 100 years ago.

The graph below plots the adjustments which are being made to the average monthly mean temperatures.

Data is taken from these three files.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_F52.max.gz
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_raw.max.gz
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_tob.max.gz

Note that it is not TOBS which is the big offender. They have some massive data tampering going on after the year 2000. The US temperature record is corrupted beyond comprehension.

USHCN2 publishes files which claim to be the monthly average for all of their raw data.

For example, this file claims to show that the average maximum temperature in Brewton, Alabama (station #011084) was 59.7 degrees in January 1895

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201207_raw.max.gz

But when you look at their raw daily data, you can see that they don’t have any temperature readings for Brewton, Alabama prior to 1926.

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_daily/us.txt.gz

I chose Brewton because it is the first entry in their database.

The third entry in the USHCN database is Fairhope, Alabama. There are no daily temperature records for Fairhope (station #013160) prior to 1957, yet USHCN2 reports their average raw monthly temperatures back to 1895.

Whatever USHCN is trying to pass off as raw monthly data, is definitely not raw data.

The Evening News – Google News Archive Search

NCEP is forecasting that the high Arctic “summer” is winding down early this year, with freezing temperatures returning to parts of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas this week.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

USHCN has adjusted recent US July temperatures upwards by 1.5 degrees F, relative to the 1890s.

The adjusted July graph shows about 1.5 degrees of warming since 1895

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html

The unadjusted graph shows no warming since 1895, with the hottest July occurring in 1901. All of the claimed July warming is due to data manipulation.

Raw data us.txt.gz

GREAT HEAT IN AMERICA.

FARM WORK ALMOST ABANDONED.   July 24, 1901

The heat in many of the states of America is again abnormally severe, and the sultry weather is having serious effects upon the health of the people. The shade temperature ranges from 105 deg. to 111 deg. Farm work has been largely abandoned. Vegetables are selling at fancy prices, and consequently poor people are living on canned fruit and vegetables, which are obtain- able at cheaper rates.London, July 25.   Telegrams from New York state that owing to the abnormal heat 32 persons died at St. Louis on Tuesday and 40 on Wednesday.   The prospects for the harvest in the western states are seriously affected owing to the heat shriveling up the grain.

26 Jul 1901 – GREAT HEAT IN AMERICA FARM WORK ALMOST ABANDONE…

h/t to Ivan

Obama has been accusing Romney of being a criminal for running a stellar and successful venture capital company.

Unlike Romney, Obama has operated as a failed and corrupt venture capitalist – using taxpayer money to reward campaign donations.

The Solyndra Scandal
Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs

Meant to create jobs and cut reliance on foreign oil, Obama’s green-technology program was infused with politics at every level, The Washington Post found in an analysis of thousands of memos, company records and internal ­e-mails. Political considerations were raised repeatedly by company investors, Energy Department bureaucrats and White House officials.

The records, some previously unreported, show that when warned that financial disaster might lie ahead, the administration remained steadfast in its support for Solyndra.

The documents reviewed by The Post, which began examining the clean-technology program a year ago, provide a detailed look inside the day-to-day workings of the upper levels of the Obama administration. They also give an unprecedented glimpse into high-level maneuvering by politically connected clean-technology investors.

Solyndra: Politics infused Obama energy programs – The Washington Post

Germany’s Green Disaster: Wave Of Solar Bankruptcies Wipes Off Almost 25 Billion Euros

Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:48 Jörg Hackhausen, Handelsblatt

The wave of bankruptcies in the solar industry continues unabated – and once again, investors lose a lot of money.

Meanwhile, Germany’s large solar companies have lost almost 25 billion Euros on the stock market.

Yet again another failure of a solar company: the solar system builder Centrotherm has made the application for insolvency on Wednesday. “We are not insolvent,” laboured a spokeswoman for damage control. The share price collapsed by 80 percent to 0.42 Euros.

Germany’s Green Disaster: Wave Of Solar Bankruptcies Wipes Off Almost 25 Billion Euros

h/t to Dave G

Al is trying to blame soft asphalt in July on global warming.

So Hot the Asphalt is Melting July 13, 2012 : 2:53 PM

Sustained high temperatures from this year’s record-breaking heat wave caused an unusual disruption at Washington’s Reagan-National Airport. The Washington Post reports:

“Things were proceeding normally Friday evening as a US Airways flight was leaving the gate at Reagan National Airport to begin its flight to Charleston, S.C.

“But the temperature reached 100 degrees in Washington on Friday and that apparently softened the airport paving enough to immobilize the airplane. The small vehicle that usually tows planes away from the gate tugged and pulled, but the plane was stuck.”

Al’s Journal : So Hot the Asphalt is Melting

In early June 1933, the heat made a New Jersey road explode. Same temperature in Washington, only a month earlier.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

The 25 hottest June 9 USHCN high temperature records, were all set with CO2 below 350 ppm.

     California	  BLYTHE         	 6/9	118	1955
        Arizona	  PARKER         	 6/9	117	1955
          Texas	  EAGLE PASS 3N  	 6/9	115	1910
        Arizona	  WICKENBURG     	 6/9	114	1955
     California	  INDIO FIRE STN 	 6/9	114	1973
         Kansas	  LIBERAL        	 6/9	113	1981
        Arizona	  AJO            	 6/9	112	1955
        Arizona	  ROOSEVELT 1 WNW	 6/9	112	1955
        Arizona	  SACATON        	 6/9	112	1955
       Oklahoma	  BEAVER         	 6/9	112	1981
       Oklahoma	  HOOKER         	 6/9	112	1981
       Oklahoma	  WEATHERFORD    	 6/9	112	1988
         Kansas	  ASHLAND        	 6/9	111	1981
       Oklahoma	  BUFFALO 2 SSW  	 6/9	111	1981
          Texas	  ENCINAL        	 6/9	111	1910
        Arizona	  LEES FERRY     	 6/9	110	1981
     California	  WASCO          	 6/9	110	1918
     California	  DAVIS 2 WSW EXP	 6/9	109	1921
     California	  HANFORD 1 S    	 6/9	109	1978
         Kansas	  LAKIN          	 6/9	109	1985
    Mississippi	  COLUMBIA       	 6/9	109	1915
       Oklahoma	  ERICK          	 6/9	109	1981
       Oklahoma	  JEFFERSON      	 6/9	109	1933
       Oklahoma	  PERRY          	 6/9	109	1988
          Texas	  HASKELL        	 6/9	109	1988