Should you trust NOAA claims about May and June records?

Even though I’m “conservative” in my political leanings, I will point out …in this regard –
“Yes, 41% of the “working age” population is not working. But that calculation includes my mother, who is in her high 80′s, and every other aged retired person in the U.S. who isn’t institutionalized.
The 41% converts into the so-called 90+ million working age Americans who are without a job, an equally senseless metric that has gained popularity only recently. Let’s stick to numbers that make sense. They’re bad enough to make the point that the economy has performed miserably the past five years.”
This comment is “spot on”. What we have here is a “serious failure to communicate”. CHECK THE CIA FACT BOOK. Sweden has about 37% of their total working age adult population (18 to 65 ) working.
If you include the children, it means that 27% (or about 3.5 million) of the PEOPLE (dogs don’t work) in Sweden support the other 73%
It is actually an incredible statistic that at 59% of working age adults ARE working in the USA.
That translates to 59/37 = > 160% of Sweden’s number. WE ARE AN INCREDIBLY DRIVEN SOCIETY WITH PEOPLE WILLING TO WORK AND WORKING!
So, yes, I find the current “ruling elite” on the east coast, reprehensible, and damaging. But they will “fade”, and the dynamic of this country will win out. To quote Adam Clayton Powell (who, by the way, supported Richard Nixon against Kennedy, because he knew both men, and he personally “liked” RMN, …indicating he wasn’t a robot party loyalist..) “Keep the FAITH BABY!” Congressman Powell, you really did say something profound with that.

The WoodForTrees Index (WFTI) should be the standard. It simply averages the 4 main temp indexes. So, biases or drifts in one data set has minimal impact.
The WFTI is not near a high and is flat since Dec 2000.
Skeptics are also guilty by cherry-picking their favorite index (right now UAH) and saying the “earth hasn’t warmed in 17 3/4 years”. True …but the more robust WFTI puts that figure at 13+ years instead of 17+.
WFTI data is here…
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:2004/to:2014/plot/wti/from:2004/to:2014/trend

So the reaction to a record warm (if only slightly) monthly report from one of the major global temperature recording organisations is …”data manipulation”.
Yet when we see cold months reported – just about anywhere, anytime by anyone – we don’t hear those accusations of data manipulation – because such reports fit the sceptic narrative.
“Should you trust NOAA claims about May and June records?” is a poorly written article with no serious evidence to back up the headline. It is cherry picking of the worst order and uses irrelevant comparisons with economic data.

James Abbott says:
July 28, 2014 at 9:41 am
“Should you trust NOAA claims about May and June records?” is a poorly written article with no serious evidence to back up the headline. It is cherry picking of the worst order and uses irrelevant comparisons with economic data.

You obviously are unaware of the discussions on this for the past few months by people using the official databases, and comparing them with data downloaded and preserved from the same sources over the past two decades. This article is not a heads-up. It is one of many.

Inflation rate of 9.6 sounds like a fantasy. I don’t trust anybody’s numbers.

Richard Greene says:
July 28, 2014 at 8:20 am
The comments on unemployment data are not relevant, are misleading, and distract from the useful information on temperature adjustments.
The employment data comments were intended to scare people into not trusting their government, but are a bad example — if employment data were the ONLY thing you knew about the US government, then you would be inclined to trust the government.
Yes, there are an unusually large percentage of people not officially in the labor force.
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No need to guess, unless you don’t trust the government stats:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
All the numbers you could want.

pokerguy says:
July 28, 2014 at 9:55 am
nflation rate of 9.6 sounds like a fantasy. I don’t trust anybody’s numbers.
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I trust my wallet. In the last 8+/- years, fuel has doubled, milk has nearly doubled, my ice cream has gone from $2.79 a half gallon to $6.79 for now three pints and no matter how much I cut back, electricity keeps going up. The game is that if you downsize a product, but keep the price where it was previously, there is no inflation to mention. The inflation “basket” leaves out many volatile items, energy being the major deletion. I can’t post any real stats; only observations. I do know that in my particular case, I have less liquidity every year over the previous and 9.6% is not out of the realm of possibility.

Richard Green: maybe you should know what you are talking about before opening mouth.
The greens do not give a shite about the fact that out of 200 countries in the world, America is one of only 7 misguided and English speaking countries (wonder why english speakers are so stupid?) that puts a dangerous neurotoxin in the drinking water ( see Lancet, The Great Fluoride Deception). The Greens and Leftists have ignored the issue for 60 years. They put out propaganda accusing anyone who mentions fluoride of being a John Bircher. Fluoride has been proven to lower the iQ’s of infants and children. It’s time for Amerians to wake up. Israel’s Supreme Court just prohibited fluordation as criminally dangerous medicating of a population without asking them permission. No wonder so many conditions like ADD after 60 years of brain poisoning.

Rod Everson says:
July 28, 2014 at 6:32 am
Yes, 41% of the “working age” population is not working. But that calculation includes my mother, who is in her high 80′s, and every other aged retired person in the U.S. who isn’t institutionalized.
The 41% converts into the so-called 90+ million working age Americans who are without a job, an equally senseless metric that has gained popularity only recently. Let’s stick to numbers that make sense. They’re bad enough to make the point that the economy has performed miserably the past five years.

The working age is generally considered to be ages 20-65. Unless you’re making up your own definitions or you unintentionally misstated your mother’s age, then your mother is well past the working age.

John ABBOTT
If you had access to this data as NOAA does . what would you be telling the public ? Would you be telling the public there is a major global warming problem in United States and use the JUNE data as an example .. Or would you alert the public that there has been a climate trend taking place the last 16-17 years toward declining temperatures generally and almost during every season except the summer and especially would you warn the public about the significant winter cooling that is happening? To me it is not so much what they are telling us or manipulating but what they should tell us but are not telling us . The public is watching this and see that there is a disconnect between what NOAA is telling and what they are experiencing . The past winter was a perfect example
WINTER (-1.79 F/DECADE) – DECLINING
DEC -1.22 F/decade (declining)
JAN -1.52 F (declining)
FEB -2.77 F (declining)
SPRING (-0.06 F/DECADE)- DECLINING
MAR +0.57 F (rising) but.dropped 10 degrees F since 2012 alone
APR -0.28 F (declining)
MAY -0.47 F (declining)
SUMMER (+0.48 F/ DECADE)-RISING
JUN +1.02 F( rising)
JUL +0.25 F (rising)
AUG -0.01 F( flat)
FALL( -0.44 F/DECADE)-DECLINING
SEPT +0.06 F (flat)
OCT -0.61 F (declining)
NOV -0.76 F (declining)
ANNUAL(-0.36 F/DECADE)-DECLINING