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Temperatures in Canada and Alaska were 6C above normal.

HadCRUT in Mississippi since 1860

January, 1983

Compare that to last summer’s anomalies. The warmth and extent was much larger in 1983.

August, 2011

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North America

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Europe/Asia

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Southern Hemisphere

T.Boone Pickens: “I am a geologist but I do believe global warming is a problem. Those glaciers are melting too fast for me.” Both responses were followed by applause from the audience.

http://www.theadvertiser.com/

Translation : He has a lot of money invested in wind and is talking to the usual clueless audience.

He actually scored last week too, but was robbed by a clueless linesman.

“American politics can turn on a dime,” he says. “If our economy woes become smaller and we then face an extreme climatic event like a national draught, things might change.”

http://www.spiegel.de/

h/t to Marc Morano

10C above normal in Alaska

Here is a Q&A I had with Walt Meier a couple of years ago.

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These NASA heretics blame Arctic warming on something other than CO2. The  GISS warming trend falls apart without their Arctic pink.

Dorothy Koch of Columbia University, N.Y. and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York, and James Hansen of NASA GISS are co-authors of the study that appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research.

“This research offers additional evidence that black carbon may have a significant warming impact on the Arctic,” Koch said. Warmer temperatures in the Arctic mean melting ice and snow, among other things. These temperature and ice changes also wind up affecting climate patterns around the world.

The Arctic is especially vulnerable to pollution. In recent years the Arctic has significantly warmed, and sea-ice cover and glaciers have diminished. Likely causes for these trends include changing weather patterns and the effects of pollution. Airborne soot also warms the air and affects weather patterns and clouds.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20050323/

The image on the left shows HadCRUT coverage in 1850. The image on the right shows HadCRUT coverage in March, 2011. In 1850, they covered less than 1/3 of the planet – yet report temperatures within 0.01 degrees.

Also interesting to note is that HadCRUT missed all the cold in Canada and Greenland last month, which explains their nonsensical uptick. At least they are honest enough not to make up data like GISS does.

The surface record is of very limited value, as the coverage is limited and erratic. Why did Dr. Muller not point any of these things out in his Congressional testimony?