To say that your post is inappropriate, tasteless and heartless would be the understatement of the century … “let the idiots burn” … is your boss applauding the death of hundreds of Australians, including children? Are YOU applauding the death of hundreds of Australians, including children?

And for the record we have heavy lift helicopter fire bombers for fighting fires and they work better than any flipping Antonov would.

And the complete idiocy of the comment is best illustrated by the vague reference to “the Australian Government” – what “Australian Government” would that be, given that fire fighting is run by non-government entities on a State basis? Sadly I suspect the comment reflects the general quality of the blog and the people adding their comments.

My guess is that even 93 years ago, the recorded lows were not as low as actual temperatures.

That means you need to be 100 ft. (30 m.) away from heat sinks (pavement, buildings, etc.) and waste heat (air conditioning vents, motor traffic, heated buildings, etc.). Rooftops are a BIG no-no.

(A roadway retains and radiates heat; just look at some of those infrared photos sometime.)

http://mrcc.sws.uiuc.edu/FORTS/histories/SC_Columbia_Doty.pdf

Global warming as a cause of this is what I was referring to. Sorry I didn’t make myself more clear.

There is a crucial difference between global warming and AGW.

Global warming is acknowledged to exist. On the other hand, AGW is unproven. It is only found in the fevered imaginations of computer modelers.

Er, no, it’s in the minds of those with a basic understanding of the physics, including Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen, for example. An understanding of the physics has nothing to do with modeling.

Global warming is acknowledged to exist. On the other hand, AGW is unproven. It is only found in the fevered imaginations of computer modelers.

The weather expert did admit that global warming is a real “undisputed fact”.

I have space on my house roof for a Stevenson’s Screen, between the air conditioner and the wood-stove chimney. There is adequate capacity in each of two computers capable of the running the GISS temperature adjustment algorerhythm necessary to meet the stringent temperature standards of astronomer Hansen.

Would averaging the temperature in the North Valley and the temperature in Death Valley provide a useful temperature?

Temperatures are local, not global. Climates are regional, not global.

As Mark Twain might have put it, there are three kinds of lies

Liars, damnliars, and outliers.

Translated from the German:

Expert says climate conclusions simply cannot be drawn based on weather fluctuations.

Moscow, 30 January (RIA Novosti). The Director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Wilfand, states that the recent changes in weather cannot be used to draw conclusions on global warming. He has reminded Moscovites not to draw any longterm extrapolations from the weather fluctuations in the Russian capital.

“Climate and weather are two very different things which are measured using two very different timescales. These two concepts simply cannot be connected“, said Wilfand Friday at a roundtable conference in response to questions on climate warming posed by the Moscow Technical Baumann-University.

The weather expert did admit that global warming is a real “undisputed fact”.

The Director of the Weather Service Centre cited the international UN expert panel for climate research (IPCC), who claims the temperature over the last 50 years has risen at a rate 0.13 degrees C per decade. This does not imply any linear trend with regards to temperature increase, said Wilfand. For example 2008 has been the coldest year since the start of the 21st century.

Also, temperatures in various regions around the world have gone up at different rates, said the expert. As temperatures in Eastern Siberia and in the Far East have risen at a rate of 0.5 to 0.6 C per decade, it has only been 0.4 C in Western Siberia, said Wilfand.

The greatest temperature increase of 2 to 3°C was registered in the region of the Karasee this decade.