Real Climate Science

“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.”

http://newsok.com/

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.

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http://cdiac.ornl.gov/

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.

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USHCN measured temperatures in Hennesey, Oklahoma have been on the decline since 1950.

GISS however shows a sharp spike upwards in 1998.

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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.

http://amarillo.com/

The revered father of the global warming scam – Svante Arrhenius – was a loon.

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Climate superstition has been around for as long as the human race.

It has been an opinion universally adopted of late years, that the generality of our summers arc more wet, and consequently colder, and our winters less frosty and, more mild than they formerly were. This remark has been made not only by speculative, but practical men; by those most observant, because most affected by ungental weather. Persons ignorant of the strong and uniform connection between cause and effect arc utterly at a loss to account for it, while they acknowledge the fact; and the generality of such persons, being addicted to superstition, do not fail on such occasions to cut the knot they cannot untie, and solve every difficulty by having recourse to supernatural means;—the malice of our grand enemy, or the judgments of the Almighty-. Hence while this change has been observed, the greater part of the observers hare attributed it to that outrageously impious act of onr legislature in the year 1752;—-for to change the style, with them, is to alter -the seasons. To this has been attributed the cloudy and ungenial weather we have more or less experienced ever since, and the years of scarcity we have so frequently felt. This change, it has been peculiarly remarked, lias been taking place since about the years 1770 or 1775

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There is no doubt that the past few weeks have been very hot in Oklahoma, but the trend since the 1930s is towards much lower maximum temperatures.