Real Climate Science

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It is blocked with ice now, and will start to freeze up with new ice in about five weeks.

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Live Science claims that the heatwave hit every single state, yet there was no place in Washington above normal in July.

1895 was the first year of the USHCN dataset. Every single station (about 1,000 of them) set a record high and record low on every single day that year. That is 365,000 record highs and 365,000 record lows set during the year 1895. (Many of these were broken in later years.)

Can I have a job writing for Live Science now?

No state in the union was safe from July’s blistering heat wave, according to data from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center.

The horrible July heat wave, lasting weeks in some cities, the entire month in others, affected nearly 200 million people in the United States at some point. Preliminary data show that 2,712 high-temperature records were either tied or broken in July, compared with 1,444 last year, according to the NCDC. At least one weather station in all 50 states set or tied a daily high temperature record at some point during July.

http://www.livescience.com/

If you have 100 stations in a state and a one hundred year record, you would expect to have on average one high temperature record set somewhere in the state every single day. Their article is junk science alarmism at it’s worst. Look at the stats for Idaho. It has been a very cold summer in the Pacific Northwest.

Idaho
Highest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 0 (Broken) + 4 (Tied) = 4 Total
Lowest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 14 (Broken) + 12 (Tied) = 26 Total

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/records/daily/maxt/2011/07/00?sts[]=ID#records_look_up

Washington
Highest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 0 (Broken) + 2 (Tied) = 2 Total
Lowest Max : Out of a possible 180,955 records: 29 (Broken) + 16 (Tied) = 45 Total

They should withdraw their article. It is a wildly misleading joke.

Obama believes that borrowing another $2.4 trillion improves confidence that we will be able to pay off the debt.

That is as clever as being trapped in a well and trying to dig your way out through China. Strong evidence that cocaine does irreversible damage.

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2011 in red. 2006 in green. If the analogy is correct, it should almost bottom out in two weeks.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula in degrees F. Almost 20 degrees below normal.

After his GM coup rescue, third world dictator president Barack Obama stole gave $50 billion to GM develop an electric car. So far Government Motors has sold a total of 2,700 volts – meaning that each car was subsidized by $18.5 million dollars of taxpayer money.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/

PBS is an American treasure.

Regarding the Jan 31 American Experience “The Greely Expedition,” it was a marvelous show, offering us a full range of details, including an even-handed account of the way society treated the survivors. But then the program tossed out this whopper: “Michael Robinson, Historian: We are now using Greely’s data to understand how global warming happens, to understand how the climate has changed over the last hundred years. The irony is that the data is of interest today but not because it offers the key to an understanding of nature, but because it offers a key to how human beings have changed nature.”

Am I off base to interpret a historian is essentially telling us we have an opportunity to understand how global warming happens as a result of the way humans have changed nature? If the program wanted to maintain its even-handedness, wouldn’t it have been better to have an IPCC scientist like Michael Oppenheimer (a 7-time guest on PBS NewsHour) make that statement, followed by one from skeptic scientist Dr. S Fred Singer (who has never appeared on the NewsHour)?

Which brings me to a larger question: with so many other similar statements creeping into PBS nature programs, such as the Wolverine program (at the 39:14 mark) and the continued lack skeptic scientists offering lengthy analysis at the NewsHour, how does PBS avoid perception of outright bias on the issue? With additions like Miles O’Brien at the NewsHour, isn’t this perception increased, considering O’Brien’s decidedly anti-skeptic CNN presentation in 2005 called “Melting Point,” where anti-skeptic book author Ross Gelbspan — who turns out NOT to be a Pulitzer winner despite widespread descriptions to the contrary — was allowed to make unsupported accusations against skeptic scientists, the basis of which were unquestioned by O’Brien?

Russell Cook, Phoenix, AZ

The PBS response :

A few weeks ago the MSM warned of imminent fiery nuclear Armageddon in Los Alamos. Friends there tell me that it has been raining every day recently.

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S1213237.shtml