This is the entire NCDC annual data set for the US, going back to 1895. People claiming that warmer temperatures bring more precipitation are simply not telling the truth.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html
The average temperature for the ten wettest years is 52.86. The average temperature for all years is also 52.86.
In 1995, public utility hearings in Minnesota found that the coal industry had paid more than $1 million to four scientists who were public dissenters on global warming.
Compared to the many billions going to alarmists.
When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the Missouri River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was global warming.
This year alarmists are blaming high Missouri River water levels on global warming.
Harkin: ‘Indisputable’ Climate Change Behind Missouri River Flood
By Brad Johnson on Jun 28, 2011 at 12:56 pm
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_PQNvWsDoA]
What are you guys waiting for?
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Animation of ice loss so far this month.
Hansen says it is already too late to do anything.
James Hansen
guardian.co.uk, Monday 23 June 2008 20.00 BSTThe difference is that now we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb. The next president and Congress must define a course next year (2009) in which the United States exerts leadership commensurate with our responsibility for the present dangerous situation.
Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control.
It is too late to save skiing, so don’t worry about it and head to Tahoe for record summer snow. On the way back you can stop at Napa for some doomed wine pressed from their record grape harvest.
What a bunch of weenies. If you really believe the official Arctic story, you should be betting the farm on a record minimum.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/08/262576/arctic-death-spiral-sea-ice-volume/
PIPS has filled in all the missing dates. The animation below shows the development of the ice pack since January 1.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rxY4gfh0A]
One of the big climate lies of 2011 has been that warmer temperatures cause more rain. Naomi Klein repeated that nonsense today about flooding in Montana, and of course failed to mention that it has been an exceptionally cold year in the Northwest states.
The graph below plots annual rainfall vs. temperature for all years in the NCDC Montana record. It is quite clear that warmer temperatures do not correlate with more rainfall.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/mt.html
Hansen says that people who lie about the climate should be put in jail.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/climatechange.carbonemissions
