Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change.
This past week several news outlets talked about the “Western Heat Wave” and tried to link it to “climate change.” Climate Central was the source of most of these stories with a press release that said:
“Between June 5-7, much of the Western United States, Mexico, and Eastern Canada are poised to experience a period of unusually hot conditions made much more likely because of human-caused climate change. During this period, over 229 million people across North America will experience extreme heat made at least three times more likely because of human-caused climate change.”
We see this every year, and we’ll see it again this year as the feckless media regurgitates the heatwave hype. We will tackle this subject, as well as go over the Crazy Climate News of the Week. Tune in LIVE for the stream at 1 p.m. ET (noon CT) to watch the show and leave your own questions in the chat with host Anthony Watts, along with panelists H. Sterling Burnett and Linnea Lueken.
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Heat waves? I worked in a canyon on the north side of Phoenix, Arizona at 116 deg F (the other geologist with me had to carry her old dog due to heat exhaustion), and I, at the urging of other geologists, drove across Death Valley, California at 126 deg F, (displayed at Furnace Creek, but short of the 134 deg F record), and thankfully we had some cold survivor fluids with us. Heat Waves? Cold survival fluids! Next
Just wondering if we will have—again, this summer—news of the “boiling seas” off the coast of Florida.
Here in the Great Northwest, at Noon, it is 62°F — global warming isn’t global.
Another cold damp day in the Hunter Valley… 12C here
It is June… It is winter.
It’s almost 0530 here at 45N 86W. At my local official weather observation station, airport K2P2 it is 55ºF = 13ºC. A couple of miles away I have a lap robe with my morning coffee. Forecast high is 70ºF. It’s the middle of June and not yet summer. It was 37ºF this time of the day a couple of days ago.
We neighbors are all recovering from our first ever tornado a few weeks ago. Climate is not weather.
Since it’s a little too early to go overboard with hurricane warnings, heatwave alarms will have to be substituted. Except that every year one part of the globe receives warnings about one form of extreme weather or another, so what’s the big deal? All people have to do is to take precautions that are appropriate for them. Besides, all the climate research has shown that if we’re going to experience extremes, we’re better off with excessive heat than excessive cold which is consistently much deadlier.
Over the longer period, a major controlling factors for growth has been lack of free CO2
CO2 absorption is not actually logarithmic by ppm.
Actual real measurements by a guy called Leckner, show it levels off at around 280ppm.
CO2 absorption is not actually logarithmic by ppm.
Who claims that it is? My understanding is that climate models account for the fact that it is not by using detailed radiative transfer calculations rather than a simple logarithmic formula.
Yes, It is close to logarithmic, and simpler for simplistic models
Everyone uses this simplified logarithmic model to claim there is more warming from doubling atmospheric CO2.
Measured experimental data says otherwise. Nothing more after 280ppm.
Repeat after me….the dooming is settled…the dooming is settled…
Black Summer bushfires not a ‘record first’, analysis of 2,000-year Antarctic ice core history finds (msn.com)
You can’t fix stupid as Ron White puts it. I am so damn tired of the blame human first crowd.
I live in the Phoenix area and getting damn tired of excessive warning for temperatures at normal July and August temps. An not even 5 degrees above those normal temps. Note to US weather jerks excess heat in Arizona is in the high teens, fools. Like 115 and above!
It’s the Sun. The 1936 heatwave was the same type as in 2006 and 1540. 1934 was the same type as in 1949, 1976, 2003, and 2018.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQemMt_PNwwBKNOS7GSP7gbWDmcDBJ80UJzkqDIQ75_Sctjn89VoM5MIYHQWHkpn88cMQXkKjXznM-u/pub
Apart from in 2012, the current warm phase of the AMO has produced less aridity in the US, that’s climate change.