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FOREST FIRES IN COLORADO. – People in Northwest Part of the State Said to be Fleeing for Their Lives — Loss Will Be Enormous. – View Article – NYTimes.com

06 Jun 1921 – FLOOD AND FIRE. COLORADO DISASTER. 1200 REPORTED…

19 Jan 1950 – Soldier Killed In Fire Battle COLORADO SPRINGS, …

Phil Jones has readings from exactly one thermometer in the southern hemisphere during 1850, and is still able to report the 1850 southern hemisphere anomaly within a precision of 0.001 degrees.

www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/crutem3vsh.txt

If those New England seasons feel far warmer these days than they were 20 years ago, it’s because they are. So are Florida’s, Arizona’s, and Washington State’s.

A State-by-State Climate Map – NYTimes.com

According to GISS 2006, Florida is cooler than it was in the 1930s and the 1880s.

According to CRU, Washington State was warmer in the 1850s.

Arizona has shown no change. for 100 years.

Maine was warmer in the 1870s

h/t to Marc Morano

One of the things we have learned about GISS is that they overwrite data in place. For example, there have been several radically different versions of the Reykjavik temperature data already this year. They have blocked access to data archiving engines like web archive, so you can’t find old GISS data there either.

On January 18, 2011 someone at GISS apparently tried to destroy this graph, which showed that Hansen used to believe that the 1930s was the hottest decade.

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The corrupted version of the graph looked like this

It is very unlikely this happened by accident, but because I had archived an older version, I was able to report on the change. The original file was restored a few days later. The source data behind this graph has been deleted from the GISS file system.

Destroying Evidence At The Ministry Of Truth? | Real Science

If interested parties continuously archive as much GISS data as possible, we can track their endless alteration of the climate record. Too bad we can’t get back the disappeared data from the 1990s.

The Big Blowup of 1910

The winter and spring of 1910 were dry, uncommonly dry, in the Pacific Northwest, especially the interior portions east of the Cascades. The snow did not fall; then the rain did not fall. The temperatures in April and May that year set records in Idaho and Montana, climbing into the 90s.  By the time summer arrived, the deep forests of ponderosa pine, spruce, fir, and other big trees that carpeted the region were bone-dry.

An inch of rain fell in June. Not a drop fell in July. And then the forest fires began, caused by lightning, runaway cooking fires, sparks kicked up from saw blades and the steel wheels of railroad cars, cinders pouring from engines. Fire after fire burst out: nearly a hundred major blazes were going strong by the end of July, along with thousands of smaller blazes.

The Big Blowup of 1910 | Britannica Blog

The weather during spring 1910 was nearly identical to this spring. Without the USHCN adjustments to temperature, March 1910 was just as warm as March 2012 in the US.

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Ivan sent these over.

OCTOBER 7, 1825
The Miramichi Fire – Maine & NB
3 million acres burned and 160 people killed.
1845
The Great Fire – Oregon
1.5 million acres burned
1853
The Yaquina Fire – Oregon
450,000 acres burned
1865
The Silverton Fire – Oregon
1 million acres burned
1868
The Coos Fire – Oregon
300,000 acres burned
SEPTEMBER 1, 1894
Hinckley Fire – Minnesota
160,000 acres burned, destroys the town of Hinkley, Minnesota, and killed 418 persons.
FEBRUARY 16 – 17, 1898
A Series Of Wildfires – South Carolina
up to 3,000,000 acres of forest land were charred.
AUGUST 20 – 21, 1910
The Big Blowup – Idaho and Montana
Over 3 million acres burned
OCTOBER 12, 1918
Cloquet – Minnesota
Over 1.2 million acres burned
http://www.nps.gov/fire/utility/uti_tl_largefirestext.cfm

The Fort Collins weather station has been one of the most stable stations on the planet. It hasn’t moved and has used the same equipment for its entire history. The station shows several degrees warming over the last 100 years.

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Photos of the station on the CSU web site show that it is well maintained. It must prove global warming!

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What could possibly be wrong, other than the fact that the weather station is located in the middle of an asphalt bus station on the CSU campus?

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