Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Heat Records Set In July

The above images are from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It shows the places that had record high temperatures in the month of July. The top image is for the daytime record high temps, and the bottom image is for the nighttime record high temps. The temperature records were so widespread that they almost form a perfect image of the contiguous United States. Of course this couldn't have anything to do with global climate change, could it?

NOTE -- You can click on the image to see it in a larger view.
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6 comments:

  1. Unknown8/09/2011 9:10 AM

    Evidently, the sun has a liberal media bias.

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  2. yellowdoggranny8/09/2011 1:10 PM

    tomorrow we will tie the record and thursday we'll break it..and I have a feeling we will set such a high record that the only way Texas will beat it .is to burst into flames.

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  3. Ted McLaughlin8/09/2011 1:15 PM

    The sun has been very liberal indeed this year in Texas. Up here in the Panhandle, we raced past our old record of 100 degree days (set in 1953) a couple of weeks ago. It looks like we will probably double the record this year.

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  4. Curious Texan8/09/2011 3:25 PM

    Did anyone happen to see the report from NASA last month calling into question the computer models concerning greenhouse gases?

    (Here's a link.)

    Or the article about the debunking of polar bears drowning due to global warming?

    (Another link.)

    KatyDid, your comment about the sun is interesting. Were you referring to the 11-year solar weather cycle, which will reach its solar maximum in 2013?

    (Another link).

    There are other natural occurances that affect climate, like El Nino Southern Oscillation, as well as the effect of galactic cosmic rays on cloud formation (see the research of Henrik Svensmark and KS Carslaw).

    Pure science has neither a liberal nor a conservative bias. Unfortunately, politicians on both sides of the spectrum cherry pick the evidence to advance their own agendas.

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  5. Ted McLaughlin8/09/2011 3:52 PM

    But while politicians are cherry-picking their beliefs, over 95% of scientists believe in global climate change (commonly called global warming). I would believe the scientists over the politicians.

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  6. Curious Texan8/09/2011 5:19 PM

    Science isn't about consensus; it's about evidence. If it were about consensus, then Copernicus would have been wrong, because in his day, 95% of the scientists believed that the sun revolved around the earth. They even had their own "evidence" (called epicycles), which were later proven to be false.

    Politicians aren't the only ones who have an agenda. If you've staked your whole career on a particular theory and rely on government grants that may dry up if that theory is proven false, of course you're going "hide the decline" in global temperatures (see the ClimateGate emails from the CRU at East Anglia University).

    I'm not saying that anthropogenic global warming is total bunk; I'm still taking the bus to work three times a week, just to hedge my bets. But there's something else going on beside made-made global warming (e.g. cosmic rays affecting clouds). The extent of that something remains to be seen. But I wouldn't discount the research of legitimate scientists like Svensmark and Carslaw any more than I would discount Copernicus, simply because their findings don't fit into the conventional wisdom of the times.

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