John Garrett writes in WUWT Tips and Notes:
Only NPR could possibly do something this stupid:
“Can’t Stand The Heat? Tell Us How You’re Coping With Rising Temperatures”
Recent years have been among the warmest on record, with a spike in record-high temperatures. Heat waves are also projected to become more frequent, more severe and longer.
NPR is working on a series of stories on what happens when people, animals and plants can’t cool down. We would like to know how rising temperatures are affecting your life, business or community.
Have hotter days (and nights) changed your daily routines or long-term plans? Has your business had to adapt to higher temperatures? Please fill out the form below and someone from NPR may follow up with you.
It sounds like an invitation for venting hypochondriacs who imagine they are able to detect that slight increase in temperature over the last 100 years as seen in the real world experience scaled version of NASA GISS global temperatures below:
There’s a submission form in the story link so that you can tell NPR just how you’ve adapted to those rising temperatures, especially since the El Nino is now over and cooling is expected ahead.
I’m sure WUWT readers can help NPR understand.
“Can’t Stand The Heat? Tell Us How You’re Coping With Rising Temperatures”
…it’s F’in summer….I put on shorts
People have been told over and over and over … that things are rapidly warming. Psychologically they are going to believe it and warm days this year are going to feel warmer than the ones last year. The heat spells are going to seem longer this year. Even as a proud “denier” I find myself sometimes feeling that this year is hotter, even though an actual look at the temperatures shows no significant difference.
The global temperature plot is more meaningful when the Y axis is degrees K starting from zero.
There goes Laughable Public Radio again, confusing weather with climate.
My neighbor told me she was very informed because she listened to NPR every day.
“Progressives” choose indoctrination over education.
Submitted the form. Doubt they will like it!
This is the National Public Radio Inc. obviously hell bent on Greenblob propaganda.
Being in the USA I expect they will zap my U.K. contribution.
Incidentally I understand in the USA renewable subsidies are funded by the State and do not appear on domestic bills as they do in the U.K. It will be interesting to know how the inevitable political backlash will evolve in each of the these countries, when it arrives.
How am I supposed to sleep without the constant roar of my furnace burning my money in June? Literally! Last weekend it was running off and on both Saturday and Sunday.
Buy a quieter furnace?
I used to listen to NPR regularly but by the mid 90’s their news coverage had swung so far left that I stopped listening to them and don’t miss them.
Facts have a liberal bias.
(is that a fact?)…
Facts have no bias, they simply are. Liberals giving “facts” always have a liberal bias.
The problem is that what a liberal considers to be a “fact”, rarely is.
Me too. NPR became Clinton, gay, extra-liberal radio in the 90s and I found a conservative talk station in Phoenix much more to my liking.
In Calgary, we hope summer will land on a weekend.
I challenge NPR to run this exact survey again in December.
Here’s my planned reply to their question: “Have you changed any daily routines or long-term plans because of higher temperatures?”
Because the higher temperatures have occurred mostly at night and in the winter, I’ve been able to reduce my heating bills and put the balance into savings. My long-term plans to install double-glazed windows no longer make economic sense, so I’ve been able to divert those savings as well. As a result, I have been able to buy that big new SUV I’ve always wanted.
Should I submit it?
Good one! Yes, submit it…
Why not?
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I was talking to a friend yesterday about the magnificent start to winter we were having here in Melbourne, reminiscent of the mild winters we experienced during ten years of “permanent” drought at the beginning of the century. He replied, “Well you won’t believe it–the Bureau of Meteorology says it’s the coldest start to winter in decades!”
So, I look it up, and that’s exactly what they say:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/melbourne-shivers-through-coldest-start-to-winter-in-36-years/9840460
Amazing! No mention of the bright sunny days that emerged after the cold mornings, no mention of the unusually warm maximum temperatures for this time of year (e.g., ~17C yesterday & today).
“A human can not notice in any way a global change of 0.8˚C in 100 years around the planet.”
This seems to be a theme here. But this is a long-term trend in the global average, not what people experience. People, plants and animals experience weather, not climate, and in some places the weather patterns have changed demonstrably over time. Flowering and bud break is getting earlier on average. Migrations are changing. Fish in the Atlantic are moving north. I bet if you talk to some of the veteran ice fishermen in MN you’ll find they tell similar stories about how the seasons have changed.
Fulani tribesmen are attacking Nigerian farmers with whom they wouldn’t normally come in contact. They are moving into new territory because of desertification and prolonged drought. Certainly, it could be due to natural variation. All of these things could. The problem is, there is no natural explanation for the diverse global changes. And there are very obvious explanations from human interference.
Why post that idiotic graph? It might have been funny once, but mostly it’s just a way of hiding from reality.
My dear Miss Silber,
You could not possibly be more wrong, even if you set out to be as wrong as humanly possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_people
Which graph do you mean? The one in the post itself that shows no “hockey stick” type of change?
One from the comments that also does not show what you want to see?
Are they “idiotic” because they are not exaggerated?
Just because your “climate scientist” don’t understand and/or refuse to acknowledge “nature doing it’s thing” is something they can’t explain does not mean what they can’t explain is not natural.
Theories. Hypothesis.
“Obvious explanations”?
Ever hear of the scientific method?
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair/steps-of-the-scientific-method
(That site is for kids.)
Tell me, just what experiments have been performed to prove “human interference” is the “obvious explanation” for all the “stuff” you mentioned and not just nature has been doing since nature began?
Kristi,
That graph is reality. It is honest data displayed in graphical form. It isn’t ‘funny’ or ‘idiotic’. It’s fact. That graph is posted to educate the uninformed. The way it seems to trigger cognitive dissonance and stimulate hostility in AGW alarmists is just an unanticipated and amusing consequence.
From Ms. Silber: “”Flowering and bud break is getting earlier on average.”
No, they are not. Flowering and bud break normally take place in April, from mid-April onward. That did NOT happen until the third week of May. I have photos showing these events, how late they tok place, and how tightly closed the buds were until spring warmth set in.
And I have yet to see any change in migrations. The geese show up in late February and early March, even if there is ice on the ponds and lakes. They don’t care. I have photos of them walking on an ice-covered pond at the end of February. They also come north in January if there is a chinook event, but that hasn’t happened since about 2006.
In Kristi’s mind, if the bud’s are breaking earlier someplace, it’s proof that they will soon be breaking earlier everywhere.
Miss Silber,
Parroting untrue talking points, as you do, does not make you look credible or the talking points true.
Kristi paid a lot for her phoney baloney degree. How dare you imply that she wasted her parents money.
Yeah, I always hear about the advantages of a college education – that only applies if what you’re learning there has any validity.
It’s always a shock to the system when graduates enter the real world.
You have to remember, that in the mind of an acolyte, everything that changes can only be caused by CO2.
Has the earth warmed? It’s caused by CO2.
Has the earth warmed before? Doesn’t matter, because the models prove that this time it’s being caused by CO2.
IIRC, except in the arctic, warming temperatures have manifested themselves in N. America in longer growing seasons, or earlier and/or later summers, not in more hot days. So NPR’s list of questions should have focused on that phenomenon. It should have been addressed mostly to gardeners and bird watchers and hunters.
Well, after having moved from Minnesota to Taipei, I’ve coped by doing thinks like January mountain hiking and walks to the beach.
As for June, after hell season sets in, I cope with the liberal use of air conditioning. Think NPR want’s to hear my story?
yup.. ice age ahead
http://www.noaa.gov/news/contiguous-us-had-its-warmest-may-on-record
They’re going to have to stop doing that.
It is not climate, it is weather, and their information is incorrect. I don’t know where they are getting their numbers, but considering the numbers of weather stations available to meteorologists, you’d think they’d stop saying these things.
If it was the “warmest May on record”, then how come even Chicago had a record LOW in May?????
Steve,
Why do you confuse weather with climate?
And when are you going to focus lkike a laser in the deceitful adjustments if temperature data that are well documented?
I was going to post something else, but changed my mind.
Steve has an issue. He will have to solve it himself.
Funny thing, just a few months ago, Stevie Wonder here was having a hissy fit when we pointed out that the US was having record cold temperatures. Something about the US not being the world.
MOSH-PIT is simply ignorant of how nature works.
And I loved every second of it after our nearly COLDEST APRIL on record. You’re a died in the wool leftist believer. Can’t help your sickness.
My little chunk of the contiguous U.S. must have bucked the trend, then. Our average high temperature was 74.13 F. I have our complete high/low temperature data set for 1896-2006, and there were 14 of those years with a warmer average high for May, 10 of them before 1970. The warmest was 1911.
Or, maybe we didn’t buck the trend; maybe it’s just that I have raw data to play with instead of homogenized numbers.
Oh. My. Word.
I manually typed in this May’s high temperatures from the Weather Underground site, and checked them using the data tables on the Penn State University climatology website. They weren’t exact matches but were always within a degree of each other, so I figured maybe rounding or truncating issues.
Then just for the heck of it, I started spot-checking my records – which I data-mined in early 2007 from a section of the PSU website that no longer exists – against the Weather Underground and PSU climatology sites’ records. PSU’s climatology page for my area dates back only to Sept. 28, 1983. Every date I checked before that on Weather Underground had exactly the same high and low as my records. Every date after that was different from my records, with the vast majority of differences being warmer than my records – but again, WU and PSU were always the same or within one degree (with PSU being the warmer one when they differed).
It’s one thing to hear other people report that kind of retroactive adjustment of records, but it’s another to actually confirm an instance of it for yourself. Wonder why they stopped in 1983.
governments are thankful for this cagw hype! Thats becaus people dont worry about real things.
Another chilly night, another run of the furnace this morning to bump up the indoor temperature.
Chilliest spring I’ve been through since the late 1980s, when even down in Chicago, 35 miles south of me, the trees would not leaf out until late April. Cities are heat islands. A late start like that, with a thin leaf canopy was not a good sign then and it is even worse now. Willows are usually the first trees to show signs of leafing out but even they held back until May this year.
Again, I would ask what planet NPR lives on, because they don’t live on this one.
What NPR is actually looking for are tall tales to pass off as news.
I used to listen to NPR faithfully.
Then the bias, prejudice and dishonesty of their reporting became too blatant. And the quality of their style became too much like that of Pravda. The fact that all taxpayers are forced to support yet anither “progressive” empire is disgusting.
The twin hallmarks of modern “progressivism” are taking other people’s money by way of taxes, and to deceive the public.
Well, I went ahead and filled in their form and submitted it. I doubt they’ll want to talk to me about my answers, given that they can be summarized as “I haven’t noticed any change in temperature in the 18 years I’ve lived here, so I haven’t changed my routines, and the only climate-related response in my community is an initiative to get homeless people out of the cold in the winter.”
Climate change killed my goldfish!
Map of top states people move to for retirement in 2017: here.
If there is a climate signal here of people adapting to higher temperatures, it seems people move toward it. Perhaps states like New York and New Jersey, which lead the nation on net population loss would benefit from some global warming.
How did we cope with the excess heat? All the people in a position to even hear the question huddled around their air conditioners. The rest of us were working outdoors, and failed to notice any significant difference between 117F and 118F.
http://www.doomgold.com/misc/thermometer.jpg
Should be a funny show to watch, though.