Real Climate Science

Finally, an illustration which accurately depicts the state of climate science.

With the arrival of summer, climate snake oil salesmen are up to their usual tactics of lying about the weather. Summer maximum temperatures and the frequency of hot days have plummeted in the US over the past century.

After accepting this, climate fraudsters complain that the US is only 2% of the planet – but it is the only large region of earth where you can do this sort of analysis. Data from the rest of the world is generally close to useless.

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During the week of July 3 to July 10, 1936 – afternoon temperatures at Cottonwood, South Dakota averaged a mind boggling 111 degrees, topping out at 117 degrees on July 5, 1936.

July 3rd afternoon temperatures have been declining in the US since the 19th century, and likelihood of hot weather has declined.

On this date in 1911, almost 30% of the US was over 100F – with one hundred degree temperatures stretching from California to Maine. Missouri had temperatures over 110 degrees, Iowa 109 degrees, and New York 104 degrees.

Drudge is reporting “record hot temperatures” in June, when in fact there were almost none. Almost all US record June daily maximum temperatures were set prior to 1989, with CO2 below 350 PPM.  The peak years were 1933, 1911, 1988 and 1936, with 2018 near the bottom.

June was not a hot month in the US, with maximum temperatures and the frequency and areal coverage of hot weather all  declining over the past 100 years.

The amazing thing about climate science, is that most climate scientists don’t know anything about the past climate, the present climate, or the future climate of the US.  And then Drudge parrots their BS.

The Arctic has been cold all summer and is forecast to be cold for the next two weeks. After that, the volume melt rate will tail off sharply.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

June has finished with Arctic sea ice volume fourth highest in the DMI record, behind 2004, 2003 and 2014.

But the big story is the slowdown in melt rates since 2012.  The average June ice loss since 2012 is down 17% relative to the years prior to 2012.

Spreadsheet    Data

In three weeks, volume melt rates will slow sharply, giving Reggie not much time to make an honest man out of James Hansen.

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The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Tom Steyer wants guns banned and believes 0.0004 mole fraction CO2 is deadly. He is so worried about these things, he believes nuclear annihilation is necessary to prevent them from happening.

Steyer: Maybe We Can Have a ‘Nuclear War’ to Provide a ‘Real Course Correction’ to Trump

Steyer believes we need this :

To prevent this :

Democrats are very angry about Trump making peace with North Korea. It gives them one less thing to be hysterical about.

Fifty years ago I spent the summer at camp in Florissant, Colorado.  I spent my days target shooting, and nights singing around the bonfire, shooting fireworks, and making out with girls at their camp half a mile away.

Almost all of those things are illegal now (singing may still be allowed) – but millions of high quality people are coming to Colorado to get stoned.