I had started on an essay to describe this meteostatistical failure last night, but Lucia beat me to it, so the credit goes to her. She’s a sharp lady. Besides…
Category: heat wave
The folly of blaming the Eastern U.S. heat wave on global warming
A picture is worth a thousand words:
More on the 2012 US heat wave – not so hot if you look around at other locations
From Joe D’Aleo via email: It will be remembered for the heat wave and dryness in a large area, but some facts may surprise you. June actually ended up cooler…
The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave
I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer…
The nonlinear nature of predicting seasonal temperature in Europe
From the CORDIS News service: Predicting hot days in Europe ‘Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, red sky in morning, fisherman’s warning.’ This saying is one of Europe’s earliest rhymes…
The Highest Temperature Reading Doesn’t Necessarily Mean a Record Hot Day
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany On June 29th, the temperature at Reagan National Airport (DCA) in Washington, DC, hit 104 °F and it was duly noted by all and…
Nature, record heat, tipping points, Hansen's opinion on weather noise, and all that
From NCDC’s spring report here More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point – CNN.com — It’s hot out there. But this time, it’s more than idle watercooler…
Flim Flam Flannery's Fecklessness Foiled
UPDATE: Veteran Australian cartoonist Pickering weighs in, see below. (h/t to Dale Stiller) There’s yet another scare coming from Australia’s Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery hot of the heels of his…
USA's record warm March 2012 not caused by "global warming"
The usual suspects in the blogs and media have been bloviating about the record warmth of March and spinning it to redline for maximum fear factor, with the “loaded climate…
1°C – the silent killer
From the Harvard School of Public Health , news that an extra 1°C temperature swing in summer will kill the elderly. Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly…
Paper: Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Linked to Solar Activity?
Just a quick note to bring this to attention of readers. I have not been able to locate a copy of this paper other than the paywalled one at Springerlink,…
Another paper shows that the Russian heatwave of 2010 was due to natural variability
Despite the repeated efforts of paid propagandists like Joe Romm (Center for American Progress) to try to make this event about global warming, by parroting faulty science from James Hansen,…
Bastardi's reply to Tom Yulsman's article on cherry picking
[Note: I don’t agree with everything Joe has said here 100%, but I provide his comment in full edited for punctuation and format and turning image links into images to…
UCAR on Blocking Highs, heat waves, and modeling limits
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: Candid Admission By UCAR – “Blocking The Way – Predicting The Atmospheric Detours That Lead To Weather Troubles” There was an interesting article in the Fall…
Rahmstorf's new heat wave cherry twisty
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. says exactly what I thought: this new paper from Rahmstorf is untrustworthy. He writes: Here is another good example why I have come to view parts…
Blocking highs contribute to unusually hot July in the Great Plains
From NASA Goddard, something reminiscent of last year’s blocking high for the heat wave in Russia. NASA Satellite Observes Unusually Hot July in the Great Plains Andrey Savtchenko and Adam…
The Texas centered drought versus 1918, 1956 and 1934
Guest post by Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, WeatherBell Co-Chief Meteorologist June temperature and precipitation rankings are in. Enlarged. Warmest in Texas, Second warmest in Oklahoma. Enlarged Driest in New…
Some facts about deaths due to heat waves
We have a strong, but not unprecedented, heat wave gripping the central USA. NOAA made this video animation to show the breadth of it, which I converted to YouTube so…
Peer reviewed paper: 2010 Russian heat wave "mostly natural"
The 2010 Summer Heat Wave of Western Russia Reference Dole, R., Hoerling, M., Perlwitz, J., Eischeid, J., Pegion, P., Zhang, T., Quan, X.-W., Xu, T. and Murray, D. 2011. Was…
100 years ago today, "climate disruption" traveled back in time to kill 652 people
There’s always a lot of squawking about “climate disruption” from politically funded disinformers like Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and their ilk anytime there is a heat wave anywhere these days.…
Johns Hopkins succumbs to heat wave mania
From Johns Hopkins/Bloomberg School of Health, where they apparently haven’t looked at this data before writing a worrying scare story. The simple fact is, record high temperatures are simply not…
Final words on the 2010 Russian heat wave from AGU: weather, predictable
The map above, from the NASA Earth Observatory Picture of the Day website, shows how the temperature on July 27 departed from the 2000 to 2008 average. Download large image (1…
NOAA finds"climate change" blameless in 2010 Russian heat wave
We mentioned this previously on WUWT, now it is officially peer reviewed and accepted. Maybe this will be a lesson to those in the MSM and eco blogland who immediately…
Los Angeles laughs at recent "invisible summer" AP article
Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC [UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan 2:52 FIXED LINK – Anthony] WUWT: …
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