By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The circumpolar vortex has put this season into the record-books. The United States has just gone through its coldest interequinoctial winter (equinox to equinox) in a century. Hat-tip to CFACT, which has just sent me the graph.
The last U.S. winter colder than this one was in 1911/12, before the First World War.
Thank you, America! Most of Britain has had an unusually mild and wet winter, for you have had more than your fair share of the Northern Hemisphere’s cold weather this season.
Global warming? What global warming?
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Excuse me, but I failed to detect any sort of trend in that chart. Shouldn’t there be one?
Not sure why anyone is getting worked up about this… The data hasn’t been “adjusted” yet, so of course it doesn’t show the correct temperature for this winter. Once adjusted, it will rank as the 3rd warmest winter on record in the last 3 years… Get with the program!
Excuse me, but the chart clearly says October – March. Not December – March. Can you not even read?
@ur momisugly dwerth on March 26, 2014 at 5:17 pm
“No matter what vindication we feel with these numbers, we must remember what we have said: one winter in one are does not a trend make.”
Perhaps one winter does not, yet a few cold winters around 1980 certainly did create the “global warming” trend of the late 20th century. See e.g. Figure 3 and related material from my blog post on this very subject from January, 2010 (link below). I wrote then:
“A few colder winters in the decade from 1976 to 1985 caused an increasing temperature trend [in the final years of the 20th century]. Climate scientists seized on this, coupled it with an increase in fossil fuel consumption during the same period, and declared fossil fuel burning (man’s activities) to be the cause of global warming due to increased CO2.”
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/cold-winters-created-global-warming.html
Yup they’ll bump the numbers up so it’ll turn out to be the hottest winter EVER… just because…
@ur momisugly Jimbo
Have you collated all the stuff you post? I mean, I have a lot of stuff (much from you), but it is very unorganized. Have you considered starting your own website as a repository for the information you’ve provided folks? I enjoy your posts.
Do you think that central heating using either gas, oil, or coke, has made some people somewhat hot house flowers. I remember when I was living in England, we rarely had white Christmas’ but Jan and Feb even around Easter snow was the norm. Jack Frost patterns on the inside of windows, and white and numb fingers walking to and from school. That’s when we had coal fires and no central heating at all. Only hot water bottles, no electric blankets, but we never used fans to keep us cool. Scotland was always snow bound. And rain, we had heaps. When sea gulls came inland you knew it was going to be cold.
Monckton, just admit you ran around and turned off all the heat islands around the thermometers this winter. Your the Grinch that stole the global warming.
When I look at the graph, I see maybe a slight warming from 1890 up to about 1938, then almost perfectly flat but possibly a very slight cooling from 1938 to present. Certainly do NOT see any warming trend going on in the US winter temperatures since 1938 for that data set. The warmista’s claim the world is coming to an end based on this kind of data?
Dave says:
March 26, 2014 at 5:11 pm
so….you are truly one of the stupidest people you know???
Wait until the “official” data and analysis comes out – the winter of 2013-14 will turn out to be the warmest winter in the last 30 years in the US of A….adjustments must be made you know.
As I sit under a CO2 spewing propane umbrella heater just South of Tampa Florida at the end of March, I have one thing to say. …………….
Brrrrrr, ,,,,,,,,,,,,, credit to Bob Tisdale for the weather observation term 😎
Bob Turner says:
“Interesting that an English (UKIP) politician equates ‘US’ with ‘global’ !”
Interesting that a particular Hockey Stick graph showing Mann made warming equates a single tree as global.
rogerknights says:
I’d insert “(Dec. 21 thru March 21)” (or whatever) before “winter.”
Problem is, the autumn equinox is around September 23 and the spring equinox around March 21, so your date range for “interequinoctial” is off by a matter of months.
Jantar I think you have read my comments on Mann’s tree ring prophesy. It’s absolute c@ur momisugly@p.
Bristlecone pines were used to analyse the amount of C.13 and c.14 hitting the earth. And it was found that there were periods when the earth received large amounts, that can affect c.14 dating methodology. But this does not equate well with climate change per say. It is true that higher temps generally produce more rain, and obviously a tree will show more growth rings closer together. Maybe if Mann had used a deciduous tree it would show a more accurate annual tree growth. Ask an archaeologist. Mann is a opportunist, and obviously his university will stick by him, as it reflects on them too.
I wish winter would end. I’m tired of it.
[The mods note that Bob is too tired of winter to even vibrate his “Brrrrr” Mod]
Where I live, last year was the latest spring on record.
When stations are recording the all-time lowest recorded temperature on Earth (ALL-TIME) …
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working/stations/other-locations/dome-a/temperature_graph.png
and places are having the latest spring on record followed by the coldest winter in 100 years in the next year which is then followed by a weather forecast that is going to rival last year’s record for the latest spring on record …
… one has to call bull___ It is a more like a duty of every human being to do this when faced with such obvious bull___.
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We should also be trying to verify the Dome A all-time lowest Earth temperature record. There was a study put out a few months ago about satellite-derived temperatures at -94C but the Dome A AWS is actually recording at the surface -92C on March 11th and then -91C on March 25th (breaking the previous all-time low record on Earth of -89.2C) and this is supposed to be fall-like conditions on Antarctica, not the middle of the winter season. Maybe there is a malfunction but this location has been speculated as having the potential to break the all-time lowest recorded temperature on Earth.
At Pearson International Airport (Toronto) the average daily temperatures for the period November 2013 to March 2014 inclusive (end of March forecasted) will be the coldest November to March period in the record presented by Environment Canada (uncorrected for the massive UHI effect and/or instrumentation changes). The record starts in 1938.
Ice core readings subterranean as well, can indicate there have been severe global climate changes dating back thousands of years. One has to remember the occupation of Greenland diminished and that those that remained reduced in stature and were nutritionally deficient.Mind you I wouldn’t like to live in the Arctic circle, with its reduced sunlight for part of the year. But I doubt very much that should we enter a new glacial period that there will be little we can do but adapt to it.
rogerknights says:
March 26, 2014 at 5:08 pm
The United States has just gone through its coldest interequinoctial winter in a century.
I’d insert “(Dec. 21 thru March 21)” (or whatever) before “winter.”
REPLY: I did that briefly, then realized your suggestion was dead wrong based on the definition of interequinoctial.
Do try to limit your suggestions to correct ones. Thanks, Anthony
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Here goes,
If I wanted to get first time visitors of my site to “bounce”, I might use the term “interequinoctial”
in my second sentence.
I’ve been here for years, I like big words (even if they fly WAY over my head).
Think the newcomers do?
Are we fighting over words now ?, I’m pretty good at that.
Beating someone up over a word that may never be seen again……..
Bob Tisdale says:
March 26, 2014 at 7:18 pm
I wish winter would end. I’m tired of it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Can’t your president just order it to stop? I mean, he made the oceans stop rising, how hard could it be to end winter?
Why isn’t it this one the coldest interequinoctial since 1900? On the graph the 1900 box is quite a bit lower than the 1911 box. Is it just that the 1900 box “is before records began”?
When I look at the graph, it appears, if you exclude the extremes, there is a 70 year cycle. It will be interesting to see if we have a cold summer. As Bill Illis says, we are seeing record cold in Antarctica. I expect next Winter to be cold, but it might not be as cold as this Winter.
Huffington Post don’t have this scoop yet !!!!!!!!
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(BTW, I didn’t bother looking)
SC24 is now on track to be a lower cycle than SC5.
Layman’s Sunspot Count critic Leif Svalgaard continues to compare SC24 with SC14, but so far SC24 is not looking anything like SC14. The extreme peaks and troughs are NOT occurring as he prescribes which is especially clear when comparing SC24 with the counting methods of earlier periods…Svalgaard uses the unscientific method of smoothing to compare cycles which hides the important detail. The LSC removes the post 1945 22% Waldmeier factor that Svalgaard accepts and also adjusts for the increased speck ratio we experience during grand minimum type cycles. This increased speck ratio also gives us the flawed Livingston and Penn results as they measure every small spot.
http://www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/50