Real Climate Science

“films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

• George Orwell, 1984

The latest graphing conspiracy theory is that shape of the graphs are affected by the fact that fewer stations report now than 30 years ago.  If I plot the same graphs for the set of all stations which were active in both 1930 and 2017, the evidence is even stronger – because stations with short term records excluding the hot 1930’s, don’t get included.

The US used to be much hotter than it is now.  Reality is difficult to accept by climate alarmists.

Climate scientists have located the last ice in the Arctic, and say it is melting.

Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record | World news | The Guardian

With the Arctic full of ice, they had to work pretty hard to find something to lie about.

Winds pushed the ice off shore north of Greenland.

NASA Imagery

Temperatures in Greenland are quite cold.

Ventusky – Wind, Rain and Temperature Maps

The level of desperation and fraud among these people seems to know no bounds.

Every time I post a graph showing temperature records, all kinds of wild theories are made claiming that early years show more records simply because they are early.  This is complete nonsense. The algorithm below is the basis of the counting.

max = -1000.0
max_year_list = []

for year in range(1895, 2018) :
    if (temperature[year] > max) :
        # Start a new list if the old record is beaten
        max_year_list = [year]
        max = temperature[year]
    else if (temperature[year] == max) :
        # Append to the list if the old record is tied
        max_year_list.append(year)

The only way a record gets counted is if it is highest temperature from 1895-2018.

August 24th afternoon temperatures have been declining in the US for a century, as has been the likelihood of hot weather.

This date in 1922 and 1936 brought temperatures over 110 degrees to the central portions of the US.

Prior to 1950, hot weather on August 24th was commonplace in the Midwest, but rarely happens now.

There is essentially no melting occurring in the Arctic Basin.

Index of /DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/images/2018/08_Aug/

Ice extent loss has slowed to a crawl, and will soon be “normal”

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Ice volume loss has also dropped to close to zero.

Spreadsheet    Data

The ice edge is not much different than it was in 1971.

1971

That was during the global cooling scare, when climate scientists were worried about expanding Arctic ice and a new ice age.

U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic – The New York Times

The prophets have failed miserably, but the scam lives on.

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

From August 12-27, 1936, afternoon temperatures at Lexington, Missouri averaged 106 degrees, peaked at 110 degrees, and were never below 100 degrees.

Unionville, Missouri also averaged 106 degrees, and peaked at 112 degrees.

One hundred degree days were common during August in Missouri prior  to 60 years ago, but they rarely happen any more.

August afternoon temperatures have dropped sharply in the Midwest since the 19th century, as has the frequency of hot days.

August days over 110 degrees in the Midwest were common prior to 80 years ago. but have only happened once since then – in 1980.