Real Climate Science

July 16 was a relatively cool day in 1936, averaging only 94 degrees, but US July 16 afternoon temperatures have been declining since the 19th century.

On this date in 1901, 100 degree temperatures spread from California to Maine, and it was 113 degrees in Oklahoma.

Arctic sea ice volume melt is slightly faster than two days ago, and my new projection for an ice-free Arctic is August 23 at 11:58 am.

Spreadsheet    Data

Some people may question my methodology, but it is the standard methodology of the world’s leading climate scientists – and I simply do not have the climate science seance academic qualifications to question them.

Wayback Machine

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

Note that my estimate is more conservative than the one made by Nobel Laureate Al Gore ManBearPig, and matches the one made by the Democrats’ leading climate prophet, which echoes the work of other scientists.

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Here is an actual photograph of the Arctic turning to toast.

Joe Bastardi weighs in.

Evening update :

Afternoon update.  Keith accepted my offer two hours ago, and is already looking for excuses to back out. ROFL.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “I’m ready to debate any time. When are we going to do it?… “

Since the year 1900, July 16 maximum temperatures at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin have dropped nearly five degrees, with a sharp drop beginning about ten years ago. Today’s forecast is 83 degrees, which is about four degrees below the long term mean.

It has been twenty years since France won the World Cup.

Fifteen years ago, France was  just about to enter a heat wave which killed thousands of people.  I was freezing on the beach at Christchurch, England during early July 2003, but a few days later the weather warmed up.  (I wish I would have gone a week later when it was warm.)  During the first two weeks of August, temperatures in France were near 100 degrees.

27 Aug 2003, 5 – News Herald at Newspapers.com

Two months ago, climate experts declared the 2003 heatwave to be the new normal.

The study also finds that climate change made such an extreme heat event 4 times as likely.

Climate Signals | European Heat Wave 2003

As usual, the climate scientists who did this study didn’t use any actual data – which shows that 2003 was an outlier and that there has been no change in the number of hot days in France over the past 120 years.

A recent meeting of climate experts in Bonn, West Germany, produced the unanimous conclusion that the change in global weather patterns poses a severe threat to agriculture that could lead to major crop failures and mass starvation.

Climate Changes Endanger World’s Food Output – The New York Times

Wayback Machine

12 Jun 1974, Page 20 – at Newspapers.com

21 Jul 1974, 13 – The Des Moines Register at Newspapers.com

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

Last year, all of our usual fake news sources were touting the Petermann glacier in Greenland as a poster child for climate apocalypse, with the BBC declaring Greenland to be ice-free.

The actual Petermann Glacier has grown nearly one kilometer per year since the end of summer 2012,

https://go.nasa.gov/2LjiGqV

And the actual Greenland ice sheet has seen a 600 billion ton increase of ice on its surface since last year.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Sea surface temperatures around Greenland are running very cold, and there is little melting going on.

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As far as I can tell, nearly everything the mainstream media reports has no basis in reality.

Just back from an evening ride to NCAR, and met a few friends along the way.

I’m trying to figure out what to do with this guy, who seems to have gotten himself into a bind.