During the 1930s, when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was about 100 ppm lower than today (310 ppm vs. 410 ppm), United States heat waves were just as if not more…
Category: heat wave
Record temps up to 100°F expected in SoCal at start of Thanksgiving holiday
From the “cook your turkey on the asphalt while waiting in a traffic jam” department Dr Ryan Maue of Weather.us has this informative forecast: Already in the 80s in Southern…
Hottest 4th of July Records
From: WeatherNation It’s that wonderful time of year, where we all look forward to celebrating our country’s birthday while sweating over a barbeque while the sun beats on our shoulders.…
California's drought tolerant landscaping may make heat waves worse
From USC and the evapotranspiration cools locally department: Hidden, local climate impacts of drought-friendly vegetation New research by USC Viterbi researchers explores the climate impact of drought vegetation efforts To…
Study: Ocean temps predict US heat waves 50 days out
Pacific pattern often forms in advance of hot days in eastern US From the NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH/UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH BOULDER — The formation of a distinct…
Place your bets! Another hotted-up Mann-tastic modeling claim
From PENN STATE and the department of overheated, tired, rhetoric in an El Niño year, comes this ZOMG! press release from Michael Mann and company. It’s just modeling sophistry, driven by…
Oh noes! Exposure of US population to extreme heat could quadruple by mid-century
From the National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Department of “ignored data in favor of modeled simulations” comes this claim from Trenberth’s mountain climate alarm…
Claim: 'global warming has been amplified in cities', ignores infrastructure increase
Heat waves becoming more prominent in urban areas, research reveals For past four decades, global warming has been amplified in cities, warns UCLA geographer From the University of California –…
Claim: If no action is taken, extreme heat waves will become the norm by the end of the century
From the Joint Research Center: Analysing heat waves – new index allows predicting their magnitude JRC scientists have developed a new index to measure the magnitude of heat waves, in…
The 'strawman' albedo effect
From ETH Zurich , something that actually makes sense. Straw albedo mitigates extreme heat Wheat fields are often tilled immediately after the crop is harvested, removing the light-coloured stubble and…
Climate Change, Heat Waves, and Adaptation
By Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels The main idea, as it is portrayed, driving the Obama administration’s pursuit of carbon dioxide regulations is that climate change is…
Which is responsible for more U.S. deaths — Excessive Heat or Excessive Cold?
Dr. Indur Goklany writes: Earlier today on WUWT in the post, UHI and Heat Related Mortality, a researcher from Arizona claims that, “Extreme heat is the leading weather-related killer in…
Australian heatwaves are nothing new
Guest essay by Viv Forbes No doubt we will hear how the current heatwaves in Australia are “unprecedented” and evidence of dangerous man-made global warming. They are neither “global” nor…
NOAA: Another 'AGW caused heat wave' is actually just natural variation
You may remember headlines like these last summer: With Blow-Out March Heat Wave, Meteorologist Masters Says ‘This is not the atmosphere I grew up with’ The 2012 Heat Wave: “Almost Like Science…
Nighttime heat waves on the increase in Pacific NW
More examples of the nighttime heat sink effect of UHI. Asphalt, concrete, bricks and other infrastructure holds the energy from daytime solar insolation and releases it at night as LWIR.…
Short Meteorological Memories
Guest essay by Alan Caruba I am giving thanks this week, despite the heat wave, that I have not read, nor heard, a single claim that it is proof that…
Peter H. Gleick, 'genius'
In a hilarious claim, Gleick proves once again his genius label is eclipsed by his own dogma. A couple of days ago I got pulled into the Twitter feed of…
Hot weather and climate change – a mountain from a molehill?
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the…
Heat Waves Validate the Skeptics
Essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus, Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University The heat wave and near record-breaking temperatures in Death Valley provides a superb teaching moment to…
It seems NOAA has 'de-modernized' the official Death Valley station to use older equipment to make a record more likely
About those ‘record’ Death Valley temperatures everybody is waiting for… UPDATE: 128°F today at Death Valley COOP station. See Record Event Report below. It seems the media and the alarmists…
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