Category Archives: heat wave

Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise – except reality shows them going down in the USA

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Only one problem, an NIH study shows that thanks to air conditioning and other factors, including better education programs about heat waves, heat related deaths are actually going down in the USA. From Davis et al, Changing Heat-Related Mortality in … Continue reading →

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Blockheaded thinking on well known weather patterns and ‘extreme weather’

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

I had to laugh at this statement from the press release below: “What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks.” Gosh,”frozen patterns” like Rex blocks have been … Continue reading →

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One benefit of the Australian heat wave

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Story submitted by Eric Worrall At least one Australian is not unhappy at the country’s recent hot spell. The following is a picture of something I pulled off a private part of my anatomy earlier this year.

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Global Warming?……. It was warmer in Sydney in 1790

Posted on January 14, 2013 by

Australia has recently experienced a hot summer leading to calls of “global warming did”, but its actually been cooler than the time when the first convicts arrived in Australia back in 1790 Guest post by Craig Kelly MP It’s been … Continue reading →

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Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – 2012 in Perspective

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

Guest post by Bob Tisdale Drought, Hurricanes and Heat Waves – Climate Change and Global Warming in the United States – 2012 in Perspective In this video, we’ll examine the exceptional and historic nature of the recent drought in the … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

(Photo credits: NOAA) By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” Your help is needed in building the new WUWT “Extreme Weather” Reference Page. My recent article A Big Picture Look At “Earth’s Temperature” – “Extreme Weather” Update appears to have struck … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Climate data, extreme weather, flooding, heat wave, hurricanes, measurement, records, tornadoes, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 118 Comments

How not to measure temperature, part 93: the hottest weather station in the UK cited by the BBC has some interesting exposure

Posted on August 18, 2012 by

Over at Tallbloke’s Talkshop, moderator Tim Channon wondered about this regularly hot station reported in the news: An often appearing name in the BBC news as the hottest place in the country is Gravesend but the true location of the … Continue reading →

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Martin Hoerling on James Hansen’s ‘game over’ thinking

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

This is a word document prepared by Dr. Martin Hoerling of NOAA and provided to the New York Times is response to Dr. James Hansen’s “Game Over for The Climate” essay. Since much of the full response has not seen … Continue reading →

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July hottest ever, but U.S. tornado count – lowest since 1951: ‘poisoned weather’ meme falsified by Nature

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

“Connect the Dots” for this one. Mother Nature has just proven how idiotic some one the arguments trying to link global warming and severe weather are: in this case, the “global warming makes more tornadoes” argument has just gone down … Continue reading →

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A fascinating new interview with Prof Richard Muller, quote: On Climategate – “What they did was, I think, shameful. And it was scientific malpractice”

Posted on August 9, 2012 by

Guest Post by Barry Woods The Progressive Radio Network website had a fascinating interview with Prof Richard Muller last week following his ‘man of the moment’ opinion piece - ”The Conversion of a Climate Change Sceptic” in the New York Times … Continue reading →

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Dear NOAA and Seth, which 1930′s were you comparing to when you say July 2012 is the record warmest?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” they wail on Twitter and blogs. The driver of this … Continue reading →

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Alarmist fact checking – street lights don’t melt at 115°F

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

Tom Nelson posts this hilarious rush to connect a hot day to CO2 induced heat. Oops: Before learning the real cause (dumpster fire), lots of alarmists rush to blame carbon dioxide for a couple of melted streetlights UPDATE: Photo of … Continue reading →

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After pointing out an airplane got stuck in heat softened asphalt, Al Gore misses the fact that many of the surface temperatures used in climate come from airports

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

From Al’s Journal, some seriously dysfunctional thinking using props he doesn’t understand. Al brings attention to the fact that at Washington Reagan National Airport some tarmac asphalt got soft on a hot day, and the tires sunk into it a … Continue reading →

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Hell and High Histogramming – Mastering an Interesting Heat Wave Puzzle

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony Watts, Lucia Liljegren , and Michael Tobis have all done a good job blogging about Jeff Masters’ egregious math error. His error was that he claimed that a run of high US temperatures had only … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Master meteorologist heat wave FAIL

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

I had started on an essay to describe this meteostatistical failure last night, but Lucia beat me to it, so the credit goes to her. She’s a sharp lady. Besides the fact that short term weather events are not climate … Continue reading →

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The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

A picture is worth a thousand words:

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More on the 2012 US heat wave – not so hot if you look around at other locations

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

From Joe D’Aleo via email: It will be remembered for the heat wave and dryness in a large area, but some facts may surprise you. June actually ended up cooler than the normal in BOS (Boston) (-1.25F) and even NYC … Continue reading →

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The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave

Posted on July 3, 2012 by

I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120703/D9VP9J681.html Even Drudge picked … Continue reading →

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The nonlinear nature of predicting seasonal temperature in Europe

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

From the CORDIS News service: Predicting hot days in Europe ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, red sky in morning, fisherman’s warning.’ This saying is one of Europe’s earliest rhymes that were used to predict weather for the following day. … Continue reading →

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The Highest Temperature Reading Doesn’t Necessarily Mean a Record Hot Day

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany On June 29th, the temperature at Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington, DC, hit 104 °F and it was duly noted by all and sundry that this was the hottest June day EVAH. Typical … Continue reading →

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