Plus, there have been new snowfall records, almost unheard of in summer.
See the table:
Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
Daily records Tmax=368 Tmin =1072
Monthly records Tmax=6 Tmin= 17
3 new snow records.
I had noted earlier this year that the data feed from NCDC that allowed independent plotting of high/low temperature records has suddenly disappeared.
HAMweather has been running this map of record events for several years, and I have used it frequently in WUWT reports.
Yet, mysteriously, since February NCDC appear to have yanked the data feed, as they been showing no new records for several months.
Paul Homewood points out that even PBS is affected by this outage:
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It was not long ago that we were bombarded with claims of record high temperatures in the US. For instance, PBS introduced their new widget in 2011, shown above, to track daily records.
As they pointed out:
We’ve built this widget so our viewers can understand the significance of the heat, not only in terms of raw degrees, but in a format that compares today’s temperatures to previous record highs.
As of last September, it was still running. (Not that they cared to show record daily lows as well!)
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With cold records outnumbering high records this year, it makes you wonder if NOAA’s NCDC might want to keep the reporting of these things close to home. I’ve seen no explanation as to why the data feed of high/low/precip and snow records stopped this year.
If anyone knows of it, leave a note in comments.
This summer chill you speak about was predicted at my website 10 weeks ago. That was when everybody and his brother, including the Farmer’s Almanac was calling for a “Very Hot” summer. Want evidence? Go here.
http://www.frontlineofdefense.com/10-summer-predictions
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The temperature variations actually have a cooling effect on Earth’s atmosphere. This mathematical fact contradicts the fallacious argument of AGW believers who maintain that the increase in atmospheric temperature variations prove that AGW is actually happening.
And these are the high temperatures that cool down Earth’s atmosphere as they increase outgoing radiation that dumps more heat from Earth to space.
So, those who use cases of hot Summer temperatures as an “evidence” supporting AGW are totally wrong. Remember that the temperature increases that AGW is supposed to cause are so small that they are undetectable without thermometer or similar device, and if AGW were true in its original version, we would not notice any change without using instruments.
There’s only one word for this story: cool!
mick says:
August 24, 2014 at 4:43 am
“Cooler temperatures for one summer doesn’t mean you can question whether or not climate change is real.”
Your argument is invalid. The AGW theory has flaws in it. As a result, it was never proved, since flawed theories do not have valid profs. The “evidence” is inconclusive, either, as it is typical with evidence not backed by flawless theory.
So, here you have a highly questionable and suspected hypothesis (AGW), imposed as “settled science” (which it is not) by mostly political means, that is at odds with the facts, and you claim that those facts has to be ignored besause they appeared just in “one summer”.
You are advocating methological nonsense, Pal.
The facts of the matter are very simple and compelling, to wit:
CO2 is a “trace gas” in air, insignificant by definition. It absorbs 1/7th as much IR, heat energy, from sunlight as water vapor which has 188 times as many molecules capturing 1200 times as much heat making 99.9% of all “global warming.” CO2 does only 0.1% of it. For this we should destroy our economy?
The Medieval Warming from 800 AD to 1300 AD that Micheal Mann erased to make his “hockey stick” was several degrees warmer than anything “global warmers” fear. It was the longest recorded time, 500 years, of peace with great abundance for all.
The Vostock Ice Core data analysis show CO2 increases follow temperature increases by 800 years 19 times in 450,000 years. That makes temperature change cause and CO2 change effect; not the other way around. This alone refutes the anthropogenic global warming concept.
Carbon combustion generates 80% of our energy. Control and taxing of carbon would give the elected ruling class more power and money than anything since the Magna Carta of 1215 AD.
Most scientists and science educators work for tax supported institutions eager to help government raise more money for them. And, they love being seen as “saving the planet.”
Google “Two Minute Conservative,” and you will be applauded when you speak truth at your next dinner party, barbecue or church picnic.
Virtually all on the Left swallowed and has subsequently regurgitated Al Gore’s self serving nonsense for years. Wouldn’t it be somewhat refreshing if one of them would admit to being duped and used by that charlatan and revel him for what he is. I doubt, of course that this will happen since the airheads that bought this stuff in th first place have as little honesty and integrity as Gore himself.
This summer had been so cool we have had days where we could wear hoodies all day long! Proof that the earth goes through both warming and cooling periods, and the earth can take care of herself in case something goes wrong.
It’s not called US warming its called GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!
HOW can RECORD LOW TEMPS be possible anywhere, since THE entire world is getting warmer…..DemocRATS do know what the word GLOBAL means, right? They certainly don’t realize that Climate and Weather are synonyms, because they have just now figured out that THE WEATHER CHANGEs….
A “Proud (to be ignorant) American” two above, does not know that GLOBAL means ALL OVER THE ENTIRE WORLD…..
SILLY RABBITS! Global cooling is the NEW global warming! War is Peace and it’s 1984 all over again.
Fixed for the just in time for no snow to be shown falling.
http://www.allglacier.com/webcams/gohaunt.php
Odd they do not keep it going in winter with a Park operation at that location per their web site.
Global Warming just caused an earthquake in California, and is getting ready to cause a volcanic eruption in Iceland……ICELAND….doesn’t that prove Global Warming is real?
@ur momisugly mick says:
August 24, 2014 at 4:43 am
“Cooler temperatures for one summer doesn’t mean you can question whether or not climate change is real.”
Mick, no one said climate change wasn’t real. Climate change is a 24/7/365 eternal reality. The idea though that man made climate change is somehow real is a little over the top. Swapping between “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” at a whim just isn’t getting it. You don’t get to have it both ways.
Somewhere along the line common sense comes in to play and the *Sky is falling, Chicken Little* type have to wake up from their self created fantasy/nightmare that only the entire world becoming good little socialists and giving their worldly wealth to the socialist government cut god is somehow their savior.
Do people not ever question what they are told? Isn’t it amazing that the God of the Holy Bible asks for your soul, but the globalist socialist government cult god demands cash? Think about it.
Al gore and his friends got to losing their asses this year. So much for global warming or climate change theory. Its all a hoax!!!
Of course, we here in the States will never see this kind of reputable scientific done or published by the now liberal controlled propaganda ministry, but is an article, from of all places, Russia’s Pravda (the former Soviet Union’s propaganda publication). It illustrates how we are, indeed, on the brink of a coming Ice Age, to which I say, “good”…freeze the northern half of the country and let the evil, lying liberal scum (aka: commies) suffer “God’s wrath” for their evil ways!
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Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
11.01.2009
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.
Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.
FULL ARTICLE: http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/11-01-2009/106922-earth_ice_age-0/
No new record low set in the valley of the Minam River, NE Oregon this weekend, but unseasonably cold and rainy there. The guy who flew in ahead of us couldn’t see the grass strip to land, as it was fogged in.
Just some observations –
Reports from NASA of a shrinking thermosphere. Reports of reductions in upper atmosphere humidity. Unusually high amounts of sea ice in the southern hemisphere.
Also of note is the rises in CO2 tend to lag the temperature rise by ~700 – 900years or so.
How long ago was the Medieval Warm Period?
The Medieval Warming period was from 800AD to 1300 AD or 500 years of abundance for all of the world with Vikings grazing sheep in Greenland and Europe awash in grain, a period of peace and plenty the “Greens” fear as it eliminates their fear power.
Thanks Adrian
Would be nice if it were ever that warm again.
🙂
adrianvance says:
August 24, 2014 at 5:25 pm
The MWP was still in effect in AD 1300. The Greenland Norse didn’t disappear for well over a century after that date. There’s even a report from Icelanders blown off course who found a dead man of Norse appearance in Greenland as late as 1540.
tom0mason says:
August 24, 2014 at 5:21 pm
The height of the MWP, warmer than the 20th century, was AD 1150 to 1300, but centuries before and after that peak were also warm.
Back to some of the original questions in this article, it is puzzling how or why the data stopped being ingested by the HAM site. Perhaps an explanation on their site? Also, for what it’s worth, I always had a problem with the tracking of these records, as it includes all the NWS Coop sites in the country. You don’t know if a record is being set at a site that has been observing for only 10-15 years, or if it is from a site with a 75-100 year period of record. Much easier to set records when the period of record is short.
Or, one could note that “insignificant by definition” is entirely meaningless, and almost certainly incorrect, in this context. One could note that a straight-up computation of the physics of IR absorption of CO_2 and its easily measured back radiation suffices to demonstrate that its total effect is not trivial. As to its comparative strength relative to water vapor — that is highly variable with place and time (as is water vapor concentration), but overall you are correct, water vapor is on average the far more important greenhouse gas. It is not correct, however, to assert that water vapor is responsible for “99.9%” of all warming relative to the Earth’s expected greybody temperature. Both water vapor and CO_2 experience a log saturation of the absorbing bands so that its overall effect is more like 90% — by far the most important greenhouse gas but not “the only” greenhouse gas to the extent that the rest are negligible. Finally, actual calculations of the approximate expected warming to be expected from a doubling of CO_2 to around 600 ppm ignoring all feedbacks (which could be positive or negative) yield around 1 C (give or take a few tenths). The natural trended variability of the climate on a similar (century plus) timescale is also empirically around 1 C (give or take a few tenths, or rather a bit more allowing for our lack of good measurements over most of the past).
If feedbacks exist in the system that will strongly amplify this 1 C warming, it could have a significant impact on global civilization and ecology. If feedbacks exist in the system that would mostly cancel this 1 C warming, or if the feedbacks are essentially neutral, random noise, no feedback at all, it will have almost no impact on global civilization and little impact on ecology. The feedbacks are at best speculative at this point. There are good reasons to think that they are negative. James Hansen, however, asserted decades ago that they are strongly positive, and that assertion has dominated all model building since in spite of the fact that there is damn-all evidence to support it and everybody (when pressed) admits that a) we don’t understand the thermal impact of the water cycle very well; and b) the models cannot actually model dynamics at the scale where the water cycle actually happens, so they are driven by ad hoc approximations that we have no way of testing and little way to actually justify; plus c) we use aerosols (as a term/effect that cancels part of the warming) to balance the assumed CO_2 + strong H_2O warming and make it come out right in the reference period of strong warming in the 80’s and early 90’s. If this were all correct, the models might work, but balancing two large, cancelling terms in a sensitive differential equation is a process fraught with potential error, and it appears increasingly likely that it is not being done correctly because the models are NOT working.
NOW you can conclude “For this we should destroy our economy?”.
This I agree with. And not just our economy — we are killing the poorest people in the world, disproportionately children, with the deliberate distortion of energy prices brought about by the stridently anti-carbon policy.
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“Both water vapor and CO_2 experience a log saturation of the absorbing bands so that its overall effect is more like 90%”
What BS! You are no scientist and probably educated in California where the curricula have been taken over by Communists who are destroying our science and technical education systems so well we are having to hire foreign trained people as ours cannot work the problems! “log saturation!” My God!
Please go to globalwarmingnotes.blogspot.com and get an education. In the piece entitled “White Paper” we do a step-by-step calculation showing how water vapor is in fact responsible for 99.9% of all atmospheric heating.
CO2 is classified as a “trace gas” which is another way of saying “Forget about it.” It is of no significance in the atmosphere, but carbon combustion is responsible for 80% of all our energy and if the elected ruling class can tax and control carbon based fuels they will have more money and power than at any time in the history of governments. It is just that simple.
If you want to be a fool and pay more taxes, be my guest. You will only see to it that I get very rich on my patents, like 7,855,061, as I have created a carbon economy to cash in on all you fools. See my book, “Turning Carbon Into Gold.” I will be laughing all the way to the bank, but unlike Jim Hansen I have a conscience as I do not want to live in another India with starving people and casts.
Here in New Hampshire, it’s been a cool and rainy summer. I believe they recorded (just barely) a heat wave in Concord just once, earlier in the summer, but I’m guessing overall we’ve been perhaps 5°F cooler than average. Some trees are already starting to show color.
Same here in Colorado where it is normally dry in the summer and considerably warmer. Now, very cool and rainy.
Second hand “weather” report from Glaicer Park Montana.
Frost on my buddies punpkin at dawn today.
He has a hand held temp insturment he has hanging on a nail on a tree about 5′ 9″ off the ground it read 30 F before the sun came to him. The hot coffee was important to his family once they got up as they slept in due to the cold.
Now here in North East Texas a high over east of us is pushing mosture toward us and the humity and the predicted high of 95 F feels like 105F to us older ones.