[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[FlingWingFlyer]

How hot was it?

It was so hot...It was so hot that Algore was able to throw away his Viagra.

Johnny Carson voice/off

[EGPWS]

The mainland United States, which was largely recovering Monday from a near-nationwide heat wave, has experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895, a top government science and weather agency announced Monday.

And 0bama hates the Earth enough to promote stifling tax increases...

[TwelveOfTwenty]

No surprise that this wasn't mentioned.

Solar flares keep on getting stronger - with latest hotspot the size of 15 Earths strung together

[freedumb2003]

Throw their own words back in the global warming lemmings' face: there is a difference between weather and climate.

[sagar]

“experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895”

There lies in the truth. The record keeping began in 1895, so the it has only been just a bit more than 100 years! What happened before that? The world was much hotter 13.7 billion years ago. In fact, it was so hot that all 4 fundamental forces were fused into 1! Now, that was hot! This so called heat wave is nothing compared to that! Back then no SUVs to cause the Plank Epoch either!

[loungitude]

excerpt:

The study, recently published by the free-market Heartland Institute, inspected 860 of the 1,221 U.S. ground stations that gauge temperature changes. The findings, previously reported in this column, were alarming.

They found 89 percent of stations “fail to meet the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements” that say stations must be located at least 100 feet from artificial heat sources.

“We found stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering hot rooftops and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Watts reported.

SOURCE: http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3535

[Road Glide]

Pics from Mt. Baker a couple of days ago:
http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/kippic/1328?gallery=

[txrefugee]

This is a warning. Hell is a lot hotter.

[piasa]

In 1895, how many thermometers were located over asphalt covered parking lots or installed on airport tarmacs?

[Dogbert41]

It’s because we aren’t paying enough carbon taxes to the high priests of Gaia.

[tubebender]

It got up to 69 Degrees in my garden here in Benderville aka Eureka Ca today. I had to take my sweatshirt off leaving me with nothing but a undershirt and Tee Shirt!!! (and my wrangler jeans)

[Smokin' Joe]

It's a spinoff from all the people (who came here to work in the oil patch despite a serious housing shortage) who lived in thin walled campers up here in Western ND last winter, praying it wouldn't hit 30 below and stay there.

It worked, apparently, it was the mildest of my 33 winters up here. (8^D)

[Vinnie]

The MSM extrapolates our temps to the world.
Recall the 2011-2012 winter in Europe, M.E.,China. Extreme cold and snow. Mild here.
So what’s the average?

[piasa]

1830/1 : (ILLINOIS) "Winter of the Deep Snow"-- Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter 
         We often hear the old settlers refer to "the winter of the deep snow."  Fifty years ago Illinois citizens were wont to refer to events as having happened before or after "the winter of the deep snow."  This great weather drama occurred during the winter of 1830-31.  On Christmas Eve, 1830, it began snowing, the storm coming from the northwest, and it kept on snowing.  Later the weather grew bitterly cold and the wind became a veritable hurricane.  The snow began piling high in drifts or was sifted deep over the prairies, as far as the eye could see.           
  For days and days this condition continued.  Rail fences entirely disappeared and the snow reached the lower branches of the trees.  Domestic animals and game were first to suffer, for all vegetation was buried deep and the steams were locked in ice and filled from bank to bank with great drifts of snow.  The animals had neither food, water, nor shelter.  Thousands of domestic and wild animals perished.  Settlers' cabins were lost in the terrifying expanse of snow.  Day after day for weeks the mercury registered 10 degrees below zero or lower.  Hunters caught away from home reached their homes with difficulty or perished on the prairies or in the forests.
Many of the bodies of those perishing were not found until spring had melted away their snow graves.  For sixty days there was an almost unbroken succession of sunless days.  In the central part of the state the average depth of the snow was three or four feet.  On top was a thick, hard crust which bore the weight of the heaviest man.  Wild game in Illinois decreased rapidly as a result of the big snow.  Unable to run because their small feet sank where men were borne up, thousands of deer were slaughtered for food, others wantonly.
Much game perished of exposure and starvation, and for years afterwards their bones lay upon the prairies whitening in the sun.  Thousands of wolves perished, and when the snow disappeared they were skinned by the settlers and their skins made into robes and fur coats.  --Hillsboro News

1854 : (JONESBORO, ILLINOIS : GREAT DROUGHT )
REMEMBERS THE DROUGHT OF 1854
J. F. Phillips of this city remembers the drouth of 1854, although at the time he was only a chunk of a boy.  According to very old timers the drouth of 1854 was comparable to this one of 1930 in duration and severity, but possibly not so widespread.  Mr. Phillips' folks were then living in Franklin County, Mo., and there according to his recollection the drouth began in April and there was no rain until sometime in the following September. 
In February of the following year the family moved to Franklin county, Ill., and Mr. Phillips was old enough before the Civil War was brought to a close the enlist in the 15th Illinois Cavalry.  He is not as spry as he was then, but is able to be on the streets almost every day and still finds interest in life.
(Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, Friday, 5 Sep 1930; transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter)

Imagine that... variable weather before SUVs and Industrial age!

[hecticskeptic]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/10/a-big-picture-look-at-earths-temperature-2nd-quarter-2012/ Lots and lots of graphs here of data from sophisticated measurement systems that go back decades.....nope, didn’t see how somebody could have come up with that conclusion for the past year.

[Vendome]

Pffftt!

Been hearing that every year for years.

Blah, Blah, Blah....

[justa-hairyape]

They are gonna have a big problem pushing this warmest ever garbage. The Summer Olympics begin in London soon and they are forecasting that summer is already over there in England. The lies of the US Government Agencies and their MSM Toadies are gonna run straight into a Summer Olympics with no summer. Gonna be hilarious.

FYI - The UK just had its coldest June since 1991.

[Figment]

I suppose it's even higher than the satellite readings from the 1930’s

[bray]

Got up to 82 here, got up a pretty good sweat on the bike ride.