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Shock news : weather is warmer than during the ice age scare.

The latest numbers, released earlier this month, show that the climate of the last 10 years was about 1.5 degrees warmer than the climate of the 1970s

http://www.nytimes.com/

Rejoice, the boom is back! After a drought of investment, last week BP announced that it was spending £3bn to redevelop fields in the deep waters to the west of Shetland. The government was delighted: this shows, it says, that its policies are working. It promised to “continue to work alongside oil and gas companies to support growth and jobs in the UK”.

Great. But hold on a minute, didn’t the government tell us, just two days before, that its priority is to decarbonise the economy? Well it depends who you’re talking to, and at which point in the cycle of crashing contradictions you catch them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/062/mwr-062-06-0212.pdf

Oklahoma was over 100 degrees at least 36 days in a row.

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

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

99-DEGREE HEAT IN CITY; 12 DEAD HERE, 50 IN NATION; COOLING RAIN IS DUE TODAY; 38 PROSTRATION CASES Temperature of 137 Is Recorded in Sun in Central Park. PARKS OPENED FOR SLEEP Walker Makes an Emergency Ruling–Orders Sprinklers for Tenement Children. 18 HORSES DROP IN STREET Heat Here Within 3 Degrees of All-Time Record–Wave Ends in Some Sections. Heat of 103 in Washington. 99-DEGREE HEAT KILLS 12 IN CITY Warns on Wasting Water. Summer School Moves Outdoors. Mercury at 100 in Queens. Eighteen Horses Prostrated

http://select.nytimes.com

According to Weather Underground, DC hasn’t gotten over 97 degrees this month. Also note that Washington and Oregon had their coldest June on record.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Yet another sign of extreme weather – an extreme shortage of hurricanes.

Ryan N. Maue
Center for Ocean and Atmosphere Studies, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Tropical cyclone accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has exhibited strikingly large global interannual variability during the past 40-years. In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s. Additionally, the global frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historical low. Here evidence is presented demonstrating that considerable variability in tropical cyclone ACE is associated with the evolution of the character of observed large-scale climate mechanisms including the El Niño Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In contrast to record quiet North Pacific tropical cyclone activity in 2010, the North Atlantic basin remained very active by contributing almost one-third of the overall calendar year global ACE.

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL047711.shtml

Regarding “Texas is vulnerable to warming climate” (Page B8, July 10), some opinions are just too over-the-top to resist responding. Professor Andrew Dessler’s essay falls in that category. He makes the point that we had better begin to accept that we are responsible for Texas’ very hot summer, and we should get our legislators to begin taking steps to control our temperature.

Typical of these alarmists of human-caused global warming, he cites the opinions of those colleagues who agree with him while not citing one bit of data to support this unproven and unaccepted hypothesis of global warming, first dreamed up about 20 years ago.

Dessler would like for us to stop arguing about the science. That is because the “science” does not support this hypothesis of humans causing global warming. Dessler would rather restrict discussion to the political arena.

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