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Trenberth lives in Boulder, yet seems to know little about the weather in Colorado. In his Judy Woodruff interview, he said that “we don’t expect to see wildfires this early in the season”

That is just freaking dense. The worst southwestern fires normally happen in June, because they come during drought years before the monsoons start in July. The largest fire in recent Colorado history was the Hayman fire, which started on June 8, 2002. The fires which burned up the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico in 1977, 2000, and 2010 happened in May and June. Like Colorado, Arizona’s largest fire occurred in June 2002.

Once July hits, a strong flow of moisture comes into the southwest. Trenberth, as climate chief at NCAR, should probably try to learn a little bit about the climate.

10-Day Precipitation Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Climate is the long term pattern of weather, and you can’t see long term patterns over a period of one week.

Consider Hillsboro, Ohio – the closest USHCN station to Cincinnati. Last week they had three days over 100F, the longest such hot spell since 1949. It would be easy to conclude that Hillsboro is experiencing climate change – unless you looked at the long term record.

The 1890s was by far the hottest decade in Hillsboro, with thirty-two 100 degree days. From 1900 to 1964, there were also thirty-two 100 degree days. But in the last 48 years, there have only been five. Hot days have been in sharp decline around Cincinnati for more than a century.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

What is the difference between Trenberth and Sarah Palin? The difference is that Palin never said she could see Russia from her house.

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Not only are heatwaves becoming less intense and less frequent in Missouri, but they are also starting later. Lebanon, Missouri has had seventy-five May/June days over 100 degrees since 1885. All but four of those days came with CO2 below 350 ppm CO2.

May 31, 1934 reached 101 degrees in Lebanon – almost a month earlier than the first 100 degree day in 2012.

People who are attempting to link CO2 and heatwaves in the US, are either incompetent or dishonest.

The Greenland ice sheet receives about a metre of snow every year, and most of it never sees any melting. With summer in full swing at -14C, they are digging their way out before next winter hits in about eight weeks.

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In 1988, some US planes from WWII were found buried under 260 feet of ice, which had accumulated over 46 years.

World War II Planes Found in Greenland In Ice 260 Feet Deep
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Published: August 04, 1988
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Six American fighter planes and two bombers that crash-landed in Greenland in World War II have been found 46 years later buried under 260 feet of ice, searchers said today.

A group from Atlanta said it found what became known as the ”lost squad-ron” last month and plans to tunnel into the ice and lside the eight air-planes to the surface.

Richard Taylor, one of the leaders of the successful expedition, said today that he and another leader, Pat Epps, were ”going to fly two of them off the ice.”

The other planes will be dismantled and returned to the United States for restoration, he said. Some will be sold to pay for the expedition.

”We have a meeting tomorrow with a contractor from Seattle who is accustomed to doing Arctic work,” Mr. Taylor said.

The saga of the flights began July 15, 1942, as the two B-17 bombers escorted six P-38 fighters from greenland to Reykjavik, Iceland. They ran into bad weather. A German submarine jammed their communications with Reykjavik, and the planes low on fuel and unable to find their destination, returned to Greenland, where they belly-landed on the ice about 10 miles inland.

World War II Planes Found in Greenland In Ice 260 Feet Deep – New York Times

Alarmists go into mindless Tharn staring at glacial ice calving at the margins of Greenland, without realizing that it started as glacial ice accumulating in the interior. They just aren’t very intelligent people.

Heatwaves were much worse in the past in the US. It is important that climate experts honor history, rather than deny it.

Lebanon, Missouri is ground zero for the 2012 heatwave. They have seen five days over 100F this year. By contrast, during 1936 they had forty-one days over 100F. During the past decade, they have had 31 days over 100F, compared to 152 days during the 1930s. Extremely hot days were five times more common during the 1930s.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

The 1950s had 58 days over 100 degrees, including the all-time record high of 113 degrees. Bottom line is that the US saw much more severe heatwaves in the past when CO2 was below 320 ppm. Not only was the duration of the heatwaves longer, but the intensity was greater. The climate was hotter in the past.

Blaming CO2 for heatwaves defies history and science, and is nothing more than superstition. The 1990s had unusually cool summers after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and that gap has blinded people to the longer term record.

All the leading propagandists are now lined up.

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As part of the gun operation, run by the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal agents watched as more than 2,000 guns hit the streets; their goal was to trace them to a Mexican drug cartel.

Eric Holder The Washington Post

Responding to a reporter’s question on weapons’ regulations, Holder said, “Well, as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”

Holder Revives Talk Of An Assault Weapons Ban – Political Hotsheet – CBS News

Obama thinks that sending thousands of assault rifles to criminals in Mexico will have a positive impact.

Temperatures are up to a blistering -23C in the center of the ice sheet, but will soon start cooling as we approach autumn. Look for all kinds of moronic  press releases from NASA about the Greenland meltdown.

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During the 2008 campaign, Obama and his friends in the press kept insisting that he wasn’t a socialist.

As soon as he took office, Newsweek ran this cover.

America has a second chance to pass the IQ test. Will she fare better the second time around?

We have enormous fires in Colorado. We had tornadoes in Michigan and Brooklyn. We had a 30-degree temperature drop in Maryland and Virginia this weekend, in just – in a half-hour. These are consistent with climate models –

CNN Anchor Tells Bill Nye He’s Losing to Conservatives ‘Politicizing’ the Climate | NewsBusters.org

Actually, we don’t have any large fires in Colorado, it is pouring rain here. We had fires over the last few weeks which burned several hundred houses – that were built in places that naturally burn every 20-30 years. The fires were small compared to historical fires like the one in 1898.

Tornadoes happen everywhere east of the Rockies.

On January 10, 1911  – the temperature dropped 49 degrees in 15 minutes in Rapid City, South Dakota. That is what happens when a cold air mass moves in.

Did the climate also turn Bill into a newt, or Newt into a Nancy?

h/t to Marc Morano and Tom Nelson