Real Climate Science

With all this thick ice in the Arctic, Polar bears are having a difficult time finding places to drown.

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Reality is no impediment to climate scientists, who will say whatever lies are necessary to keep funding coming in.

This one was taken at 1/4000th of a second shutter speed.

Despite all the fake news about record heat, this summer (June-August) so far has had a near record low number of daily maximum temperature records in the US. The vast majority of summer daily maximum temperature records were set more than 60 years ago, and never matched again.

Even the climate hacks at the EPA know that the 1930’s were much hotter than any years since.

Climate Change Indicators: High and Low Temperatures | Climate Change Indicators in the United States | US EPA

From June 25 to August 24, 1936, afternoon temperatures at Gann Valley, South Dakota averaged 105 degrees. They had twenty days over 110 degrees that summer.

Opinion | Scott Pruitt and the Global Heat Wave – The New York Times

I wonder who they blamed the 1896 heatwave on?  That one killed 1,500 people in New York.

1896 Heatwave

Australia also had their worst heatwave on record during January of 1896.

TimesMachine: August 18, 1896

The 1901 heatwave killed thousands of people.

The 1911 heatwave killed thousands of people in New England and across the country.

Climate alarmists have adopted the identical thought process of 16th century witch burners, who accused people of cooking the weather.

Usually July is a very brown month here in Boulder, but we have had lots of rain this spring and early summer, and it is the greenest I have ever seen it in July.

Satellite data shows that current troposphere temperatures are about the same as 1991 and 1995.  Other than spikes and dips caused by volcanoes and ENSO events, there has been no change in temperature.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The 1995 IPCC report showed no change in troposphere temperature from 1958 to 1995, based on satellite and balloon observations.

Wayback Machine

No warming from 1958-1995, and none since 1995. So there has been little or no warming for 60 years, which of course is reported by government agencies as the Earth burning up.

Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

When data doesn’t fit the agenda, government scientists simply alter it.

117 degrees in San Diego?  Fake news doesn’t get much more incredulous than that.  The actual forecast for San Diego is fairly typical for this time of year.

Meanwhile, here in the real world, July 6, 1936 was the hottest day on record in North Dakota – at 121 degrees.

These were the temperatures at Fort Yates, North Dakota from June 18- September 22, 1936.

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Arctic sea ice volume is about to pass 2003 and move to third highest in the DMI record.  This should happen on Saturday.

Spreadsheet    Data

Yesterday was the peak melt day of the season so far. The only other year when the peak melt occurred in July was 2003. Normally it occurs in June.

Peak melt rates have declined over the past 15 years, with this year being the fourth lowest on record (so far.)

Spreadsheet    Data