Greenland gained 22 billion tons of ice in two days last autumn.
Surface Conditions: Polar Portal
In a few days, it will be -4F there.
I frequently get told by climate alarmists that one day of warm weather at one location is climate, but 100 years of cooling in the US is cherry picking.
Over the past three years, Greenland’s surface has gained 250 billion tons more ice than “normal.”
2017 : +200 billion 2018 : +150 billion 2019 : -100 billion
Climate alarmists are like bad gamblers. The count only their winnings, and ignore their larger losings. Which is just one reason why they are so completely clueless, incompetent and morally bankrupt.
They have determined that three days of relatively mild weather signals the apocalypse.
The Midwest had twenty-five days over 100 degrees during August, 1918.
Temperatures topped out at 113 degrees at Clarinda, Iowa on August 4, 1918.
However, Americans were too busy winning WWI to worry about the weather much.
04 Aug 1918, 1 – St. Joseph News-Press/Gazette at Newspapers.com
This year, the Midwest has had no days over 100 degrees.
The House Climate Crisis Committee held their first public meeting here in Boulder today. Temperature is 80 degrees, and Boulder is the greenest anyone has ever seen it this time of year. The Governor declared a “climate crisis” today – after the best ski season and the coolest, greenest summer on record. He wants the state to go 100% renewable energy, which would make it impossible for anyone to get to the ski areas.
I don’t think the committee members flew in on wind powered airplanes, and most electric cars can’t drive to Vail without recharging. Imagine a line of 2,000 electric cars on I-70 waiting to do their two hour fast charge at the recharge station. Could take the rest of the driver’s life.
One of the more amazing moments was when Rep. Garret Graves, (R) Louisiana implied that we could stop land subsidence in Louisiana by building windmills in Colorado.
For the whole country, this was the coolest January-July on record – with the smallest number of hot days.
The frequency of hot days is down more than 60% since the 1930s.
Average minimum temperature has been 14th coolest on record. Illinois set their all-time cold record earlier this year.
Most states set their all-time temperature record more than 60 years ago, and none have set their record since 2012.
The committee effused about how the audience was participating in government, though we were not allowed to speak or ask questions. Democrats’ concept of participation is essentially the same as the Soviet Union.
The entire event was a fascinating exercise in mass inanity and delusion. As a scientist and observer – I love this stuff. I’m getting to witness one of the most bizarre events in human history. A planned campaign to destroy civilization – via an army of useful idiots.
On this date in 1715, a massive hurricane struck Florida’s Treasure Coast, sank ten ships carrying Spanish treasure, and killed more than 1,000 sailors. That is how the Treasure Coast got its name.
Democrats would have prevented this tragedy with an 85% carbon tax on the gold.
300-year-old treasure from famous shipwreck found in Florida waters – CBS News
25 Mar 1967, 29 – The Record at Newspapers.com
The Spanish Camp Site and the 1715 Plate Fleet Wreck: Tequesta : Number 26/1966, pages 21-30
On this date in 1955, every state was over 90 degrees (32C) and 20 states were over 100 degrees (38C.) Hot weather like that is incomprehensible now.
On this date in 1988, Milwaukee was 108 degrees – more than 30 degrees warmer than today. Almost every state was over 90 degrees.
Similar story in 1980. The stage was set for James Hansen to commercialize the global warming scam.
No surprise it was hot. Jimmy Carter was turning coal into oil.
The UK had a week of hot weather in early August 2003. I was there a few days earlier freezing my tail off at the beach in Christchurch. Coldest summer beach day of my life.
All of the hottest temperatures during that heatwave were right around the urban heat island of London.
The hottest day was August 9th. One thermometer at Heathrow reported 100 degrees, and another one close by reported 95 degrees, It is amazing what jet exhaust can do to a thermometer.
Temperatures reported so far this year in the GHCN database are much lower than 2003, but I will wait a few days to see how that changes. (With my new tools, alarmists are in a lot of trouble.)
