From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
More heatwave fake news from the BBC:
Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US south-west, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say.
The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave was concentrated in south-west states including California, Nevada and Arizona.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czvvqdg8zxno
Temperatures in Phoenix reached a high of 113F during early June:
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
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The BBC know they can fool some people who don’t realise temperatures like these are normal in places like Phoenix.
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
The record June temperature was 122F in 1990, and thirty years since 1933 have had higher temperatures than 113F in June:
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
As for the length of the heatwave, Phoenix has had four days over 110F so far in June. In June 1974 they had eighteen!
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As usual the BBC rely on Weather Attribution models which are clearly fraudulent, and designed for propaganda purposes only. Given that this heatwave was not even extreme, the rest of the claim is plainly a con-trick.
I subscribe to The Daily Mirror, an English tabloid. They call anything over 20C (68F) as a “heat wave”. The Brits have different experiences with warm weather.
No the media sings a particular tune
The Mirror is a low grade red- top
The Met Office recently redefined a heat wave …
So in the future, we will have more ‘Heatwaves’ but the same or lower temperatures; nothing to do with science, all to do with language.
Like the “climate” is only 30 years of weather now instead of the thousand to millions of years “climate” meant before the WMO changed its definition.
You see in Arizona it’s a “dry” heat, at least that is what they used to say.
Yes, when I first lived in Phoenix in the early-1950s, everyone depended on ‘swamp coolers,” (evaporative cooling) and it was adequate for remaining comfortable. When I again lived there (’95-’98) evaporative coolers could only be found in a few antique stores. Albeit, city bus stops, convenience stores, and many backyard patios had misters to moderate the outdoor temperatures. By and large, the numerous golf courses, greenbelts, and swimming pools (along with the ubiquitous misters) has raised the humidity so much that evaporative coolers no longer work well in Phoenix. It is my personal perception that it doesn’t cool off as much at night now as it did formerly. My backyard pool was 94 deg F in August. UHI appears to be the real thing because of the increased humidity.
After the US Civil War Sherman became General of the Army. He made an inspection tour of the Western Division which included Arizona Territory. Someone made the remark, “All Arizona needs is a little less heat and a little more water”
Sherman replied, “That’s all Hell needs.”
(PS: the monsoon season started yesterday, courtesy of the tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico several days ago. Thunder storm yesterday evening and a good shower about an hour ago. Dew Point has been at or above 54°F for three days now, that’s the ‘official’ definition.)
I wonder how much of these recent warmish spells is due to UHI? I notice they mention the cities, not an average for a region.
97%
No comparison to non-UHI corrupted rural stations with grade 1, 2 and 3 station siting standards. The larger cities grow the increasing impact of UHI dominates.
The U.S. relatively-pristine Climate Reference Network (USCRN) shows no CO2 impact on approximately 20 years of data collected.
I was wondering the same thing when reading the post.
What’s NOT said is that warming (global and/or UHI) shows up more in rise of minimum temperatures as opposed to increase in maximum temperatures.
Note the graphs show the temperature source as the Phoenix Airport.
The airport is near the center of the Phoenix metropolitan area [population ~5million].
And the weather station there is sited between two of the 4 east-west runways with
more than 1000 flights per day [per google].
UHI indeed!
And yesterday our high in Phoenix was 117 deg F, but today is only 102 – yet both days are consistent with “climate change”. LOL !
The BBC has a liar for a fact checker but that isn’t enough
BBC VERIFY HIRING CORRESPONDENT FOR £69,00
Applications closed this month for a new hire at the BBC Verify team. Joining the 63 people in the team with combined salary costs of £3.2 million will be a “correspondent with extensive experience of open-source and data journalism“. Does someone need to help Marianna Spring with numbers?
The junior hire will get up to a whopping £69,443 to “deliver agenda-setting forensic journalism in a clear, distinctive and impactful way across multiple platforms“, plus extra London weighting. That’s well above the £29-39,000 that other junior hires at the BBC can expect to pocket. Guido hopes the applicants made sure their CVs were true and accurate…
https://order-order.com/2024/06/21/bbc-verify-hiring-correspondent-for-69000/
Largesse oblige
“Joining the 63 people in the team with combined salary costs of £3.2 million”
And we are forced by law to pay for this ‘Ministry of
Truth‘ Lies !!The BBC (broadcasting bollocks constantly) tell lies. I see/hear it every day and because it happens daily, people hang on their every word and accept their propaganda as the truth and the only truth. It’s sickening.
hmmm
In the summer of 1990 we were drilling for gold in the AZ desert just NW of Phoenix. Afternoons were a bit warm, just over 120° F. (The desert gets really, really quiet at those temperatures.) We decided to drill only at night and it was very pleasant. Looking at the numbers in this article, I am pleased to see that Arizona has become significantly cooler in the last 34 years. If there ever was any “climate emergency,” it definitely seems to have passed. Good to know.
When the Southern Pacific railroad line was built circa 1880, the practice was to halt constrction during the summer months as it was too hot. In addition, it as common for houses to have two roofs, with the upper roof providing shade for the lower roof. The latter approach would be dramatically improved with the upper roof coated with white paint that has been designed to have high emissivity in the atmosphere’s IR windows.
I’m not so sure about having gotten cooler. When my parents and I arrived in Phoenix in early-July 1952, the (unofficial) temperature appeared to be about 118° F mid-day. We were used to higher Heat Indexes, being from Illinois, but it was definitely a new experience. What we found surprising was that the major retail stores (Wards and Sears) stayed open until late weekdays because most people preferred to venture out for shopping after sunset.
But in imposing a blackout on any reportage of weather that does not comply with a warming argument what do you expect? The BBC even corrupted the once trusted/admired zoologist David Attenborough to trumpet their message and in the doing turned him into weather’s equivalent of Hindenburg, became a used character representing establishment and order. Made an equitable individual endorse corrupted tales of animal life using fake scenarios, to support their thesis. Everything out of the BBC receives a coat of varnish. Imagine what they can do to any other news item. How they could infiltrate every scintilla of their output with their doings.
The clue is in the name Weather Attribution. The weather obviously has to be attributed to something, it might as well be us. But given that the BBC claims that heatwaves are increasing as well as their reporting of them I can only conclude that the BBC’s writing causes heatwaves. They ought to win a BAFTA for that.
From the article: “The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group”
is pseudoscience.
Before, all the climate alarmists had to scare people with was the bogus Hockey Stick chart to show as “evidence” that CO2 is correlated with the rise in temperatures, and now they have added this new propaganda tool of the World Weather Attribution group who see CO2 in every weather event.
The whole of Alarmist Climate Science is Pseudoscience. They have absolutely nothing to back up their claims that CO2 is causing the Earth’s atmosphere to overheat and they have absolutely no evidence that today’s temperatures are unprecedented.
Climate Alarmists have Nothing to hang their hat on.
BBC is from a country that does not have cold beer or iced lemonade. I have been in England in the Spring when the temperature hit 27 C (81 F). The locals were dragging around moaning about how hot it was. I kept telling them to it was a beautiful spring day and that they should learn to enjoy it. Put away the woolens and buy a bag of ice.
Arizona is so hot now due to global warming that it caused its population to increase from about 1 million to over 7 million.
If fossil fuels are done away with, Phoenix will need another nuclear reactor to allow people to survive in that climate.
An interesting bit of trivia: The early settlers in Phoenix built tunnels under the downtown area, with shafts leading up to the stores. In Winter, wagons loaded with lake ice from the Prescott and Flagstaff areas would bring ice down to be stored in the tunnels. In the Summer, large electric fans would blow air over the ice and delivered to the buildings.
On June 19, 2016, North Phoenix was much hotter, see photo.
On June 19 2024, North Phoenix hit a very benign 100F.
It sure gets hot at the airport! My area in Holladay, UT is generally about five degrees cooler than SLC Intl. 14 miles away, almost the same elevation.
The Phoenix airport has increased in traffic, runways, etc., over the years so I would expect the temperatures at the airport to increase as well — on top of the increase in the urban heat island as the Phoenix area has increased in population. There’s nothing unusual about the Arizona temperatures this year. The second half of June is always a bit “warm,” which then leads (we hope) to our monsoon season with rain and cooler temperatures. (We’ve lived and worked in Tucson and Buckeye for most of 44 years. We like it!)
Of course, the Beeb can’t mention the end of the “permanent drought” in the Colorado and Rio Grande watersheds. The latter is over its banks in Southern New Mexico, and Lake Powell water level is approaching 3600 feet above msl.
They also didn’t anticipate the recent, and ongoing, monsoon-like cooling events occurring in the region due to the mid-season arrival of the first named tropical storm to hit the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
This is outlandish BBC reporting. One cannot scientifically attribute 35 X from the measurements available. It is a made-up number.
Suggestion: You Brits should organise campaigns to call out the BBC through the available channels regarding accuracy, balance, etc. We know some are doing this, but think about the effect of 35 X more protests about the BBC.
.Here is an example of what we are doing in Australia for our ABC. There are more from this distionguished journalist/author.
Agreed, we Aussies are not active enough with our demands for ABC accuracy, but there is a tool there that should be used over and over until the message is clear.
Geoff S
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/thier-abc/2021/02/its-official-im-the-one-with-the-problem/