“Climate sensitivity is not constrained by the last two decades of imperfect satellite data, but rather the paleoclimate record.”
– Gavin
What do we need NASA for? We have Mikey Mann.
These same idiots who happily believe the bogus interpretations of GRACE and sea level data, can’t accept Spencer’s real data.
Obama already has plans to turn Afghanistan over to the Taliban. He should have brought everyone home, rather than pretending that we aren’t giving up. Every day he increases his reputation as the most incompetent buffoon to ever grace high office in Washington.
“THE hottest summer in Oklahoma history.” That’s the storyline for 2011, although it’s a bit early to draw such a conclusion. It was certainly the hottest July in recorded history. What naturally follows from the “hottest summer” conclusion is that anthropogenic global warming is “settled science.”
In 1954, average July maximum temperatures were three degrees higher (106F) than last month (103F) in Hennesey. A number of years in the 1930s and 1950s had temperatures over 100 degrees in both July and August, and that does not appear likely to happen in 2011, with cooler weather in the forecast.
I see similar patterns in other Oklahoma locations.
A large gap (green) is opening up between 2011 and 2007, due to the 2007 rapid ice loss in the East Siberian Sea. The US Navy forecasts a slight increase in ice extent in that region over the next week, so the difference should look something like the image below in a week.
USHCN turned a cooling trend into a warming trend – by subtracting about three degrees from pre-1975 maximum temperatures, and progressively subtracting less over time.
USHCN measured temperatures in Hennesey, Oklahoma have been on the decline since 1950.
GISS however shows a sharp spike upwards in 1998.
SAN ANTONIO — Climatologists said Thursday that the La Nina conditions that have contributed to Texas’ worst drought in decades may re-occur later this year — troubling news for the state’s beleaguered farmers and ranchers who also learned there was likely no relief in sight.
The Climate Prediction Center issued a La Nina watch on Thursday, just two months after declaring the last La Nina had ended. The phenomenon, which is marked by a cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean, typically results in less rain for southern states.
