Real Climate Science

Peak temperatures in the Midwest have plummeted since the 19th century. This is the first year the Midwest did not make it up to 99 degrees, with a peak of  98 degrees on 7/21/2019 at station PALESTINE IL USC00116558.  That is down 20 degrees from the peak in 1936.

As I predicted last week, I have been censored from the climate discussion for posting temperature data.

(205) Climate Change – an open discussion

I put together a new python script for analyzing US temperature data. The code is much smaller than what I have previously released, but it is just as powerful for the most commonly used statistics.  It also includes analysis of the new USHCN daily TOBS data – which is a complete mess.  I will be blogging about it shortly.

You can get the code here, There are only three files :

get, USHCNDaily.py and US.list

After you download the code :

chmod 755 get
./get

That will download the entire US daily temperature record from NOAA USHCN. Then execute the program with commands like :

python3 USHCNDaily.py US.list states=MNIAMOWIILINOHMI months=05060708 max_target=89

That will calculate the temperature record for the Midwest (Minnesota, Iowa, etc.) , from May to August, with a target of 89 degrees (F) for calculating statistics.  After it has completed, you will find a descriptively named csv file in the same directory – which you can then load into a spreadsheet.

I’m not planning on doing any python tutorials, but the code is very simple and is going to make life tough for people tampering with data and lying about the climate. If you don’t know how to install and run python, look here.

Canada’s top scientific minds have determined that all the cold, snow, rain and high water levels on the Great Lakes are due to global warming.

Blame climate change for record water levels in the Great Lakes: prof | CTV News

This comes almost twenty years after they predicted heat, drought, falling water levels and the demise of snow around the Great Lakes.

30 Mar 2001, 125 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com

Climate experts have informed us that three days of warm weather in Greenland last month is climate.

Surface Conditions: Polar Portal

They have also determined that a 200 billion ton gain in ice since September is actually a loss, and that about half as much melt as 2012 is the largest on record.

Greenland’s surface has gained 1,250 billion tons of ice over the past three years, about 250 billion tons above the 1981-2010 mean. How surprising that the world’s leading papers failed to mention this. “Democracy Dies in Darkness”

2017   2018  2019

Melt this year has been just over half of 2012. The Washington Post says this year is on track to be the largest on record.

The Washington Post also says Arctic sea ice is at a record low.

Greenland could set a record for the most ice lost in a single melt season – The Washington Post

Arctic sea ice is nowhere near a record low, and is melting slowly. This summer is likely to finish highest in the past five years.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Apparently 130 degree weather was common in Iraq when CO2 levels were lower.

11 Aug 1930, Page 17 – St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Newspapers.com

01 Oct 1922, 44 – Casper Star-Tribune at Newspapers.com

h/t Don Penim

Poll from July 26

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Despite endless hysterics based on cherry-picking a few warm days somewhere in the Arctic, there is nothing happening there.  The MASIE record extends back to 2006, and every day in their record is shown in the graph below. The graph shows annual cycles with no trend.

masie_4km_allyears_extent_sqkm.csv

Maximum, minimum and average extent all show no trend since the start of records.

Alarmists are hoping for some luck the rest of summer, but ice extent loss since August 5th has been the lowest on record.