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Arctic sea ice volume loss slowed again yesterday, so I am changing my ice-free Arctic forecast to September 21, at 4:59 pm.

Spreadsheet    Data

Another theory by the New York Times is that the Arctic has been ice-free since 1989.

Expert Says Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea – Catastrophic Shifts in Climate Feared

However, I have noticed a competing trend. Here in Boulder at the 40th parallel, days are a half hour shorter than they were a month ago.  This means that the world will be completely dark in 29 months, which could potentially cause temperatures to drop – offsetting the ongoing increase in CO2.

Regardless of which problem is more serious, it is clear that government intervention and massive taxation is needed to prevent these catastrophic events from occurring.

This date in 1926 was the hottest on record in New York State, at 108 degrees. There were 100 degree temperatures fro Louisiana to New Hampshire.

The hottest July 22nd was in 1901, with the average afternoon temperature across the US at 96 degrees. It was 112 degrees in Illinois and Indiana, and 110 degrees in Iowa and Wisconsin.

On this date in 1934, more than one third of the US was over 100 degrees. It was 112 degrees in Indiana, and 110 degrees in Illinois.

A standard trick for climate alarmists is to post before and after pictures showing what your SUV did to glaciers over the past century.

They don’t mention that the ice loss occurred before 1940.

The National Geographic Archive 

And never mind that the glaciers were much smaller during the Medieval Warm Period, or when Hannibal took elephants across the Alps.

from perhaps the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the glaciers of the Alps were much less extensive than at present.

At present they are in general retreating … almost as rapid as at Glacier Bay (Alaska)

• National Geographic  1892

National Geographic Weren’t Always MWP Deniers | The Deplorable Climate Science Blog

Retreating Exit Glacier has become an icon of climate change – Anchorage Daily News

The Exit Glacier in Alaska has been retreating since the Little Ice Age.  Barack Obama took a selfie in front of the glacier to highlight climate change.

In a sense, Obama was correct – the Exit Glacier was retreating much faster one hundred years ago than it is now.

The Retreat of Exit Glacier.pdf

I took the National Park Service table above, added 600 meters of retreat since 1974 based on the map in the Anchorage Daily News, and graphed the retreat rates since 1815.  The glacier was retreating much faster before 1918 than it has been since 1918.

Spreadsheet

As is normally the case in climate science, the data shows the exact opposite of the claim being made.

Map below h/t garyh845

National Park Service

On July 25, 1934 Iowa set their official high temperature record of 118 degrees. The average maximum temperature around the US that day was 95 degrees, with 54% of the US above 95 degrees, and 34% of the US above 100 degrees.

US July 20 afternoon temperatures have plummeted since the 1930’s.

Eighty percent of the US was in severe or extreme drought that month.

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George Orwell introduced the language of doublespeak in his dystopian novel “1984”published in 1949. Doublespeak is the language of opposites. Up is down and down is up. The word doublespeak derives from two Orwellian words “doublethink” and “newspeak.”

Doublethink is when a person accepts two mutually contradictory thoughts as correct without being aware or troubled by the glaring contradiction between them.

Doublethink statements like “war is peace” “freedom is slavery” “ignorance is strength” are made without discomfort. Newspeak is a method of controlling thought through language – it is the language of fake news.

Doublespeak combines doublethink and newspeak in language that deliberately obscures, distorts, disguises, or reverses the meaning of words to manipulate public opinion in a mass social engineering effort.

Orwell’s Doublespeak: The Language of the Left :: Linda Goudsmit

On some days, Democrats angrily deny President Trump’s claims they allow illegal aliens to vote. But on other days they make it official that they allow illegal aliens to vote.

San Francisco allowing undocumented immigrants to vote

The Clintons and the FBI have been spying on Republicans, and destroying e-mails and other evidence for decades.

6 Jul 2000, Page 5 – at Newspapers.com

Imagine what the FBI would have found had they raided Vince Foster’s office before he “committed suicide” and before Hillary Clinton ransacked Foster’s office.

12 Jan 1996, Page 4 – at Newspapers.com

But then again, attorney-client privilege only applies to Democrats.

Weather Underground was named after Bill Ayers’ terrorist group, which tried to kill Naval officers and their wives.  The same Bill Ayers who started Obama’s political career.

Weather Underground is reporting 100 degrees in Fort Collins.

Fort Collins, CO Forecast | Weather Underground

There are no thermometers close to 100 degrees near Fort Collins.

WunderMap® | Interactive Weather Map and Radar | Weather Underground

Even the official CSU thermometer (located in the middle of a parking lot) is reporting below 90 degrees.

Fort Collins Weather Station

The US has had some very hot July 21st’s. July 21st, 1901 – the average afternoon temperature around the US was 95 degrees, and the Chicago area was 110 degrees.

22 Jul 1901, 1 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com

July 21, 1930 was the hottest day on record in Washington DC (106 degrees) and Delaware (110 degrees.)

July 21, 1934 was the hottest day on record in Ohio (113 degrees.)

July 21, 1936 was very hot in the western US, but relatively mild in the east.