"My oh my, it surely do feel a tad warm in here? Be a dear and rub some lotion on my back..."
Posted on 08/01/2006 10:10:39 AM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd
As sure as the sun rises in the east, when a heat wave engulfs the continental United States, it dawns on the media that “global warming” may be to blame. Such was the case with CBS’s Bob Orr on the July 31 “Evening News,” when the reporter consulted with Pew Center on Global Climate Change’s Jay Gulledge.
“The average global temperature is getting hotter due to global warming,” Gulledge told Orr.
“Gulledge says there’s no longer any serious debate” on climate change, Orr added. A short time later, Orr’s story was cut short just as Gulledge was explaining his theory that pollution in the 1960s and 1970s prevented global warming from occurring then.
“Just to underline how hot it is, the remote truck that Bob Orr was broadcasting from just overheated and we had to shut it down,” anchor Bob Schieffer explained as the story ended abruptly.
But is the van-unfriendly heat wave really damning proof of the impact of global warming? Not all climatologists agree, among them the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s John Christy.
In written testimony to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on May 2, 2001, Christy urged the committee “to be suspicious of media reports in which weather extremes are given as proof of human-induced climate change.”
He added that “weather extremes occur somewhere all the time,” including “the coldest combined November and December in 106 years” at the end of 2000, an event that “does not prove U.S. or global cooling.”
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We need to crank up our efforts at causing pollution!!
In Idaho, we were constantly at about 105 degrees all last week. This week, we started out with an 85 degree. Does that mean we are experiencing global cooling?
So what was the problem in the 1980's, and then the 1930's?
I saw on Fox and Friends this morning that we had the same heat temps in cycles every 30 years or so. Along with that came strong and frequent hurricanes.
>>>So what was the problem in the 1980's, and then the 1930's? >>>
OOps, I meant 1890's.
Or, for that matter, there was no weather at all before George Bush. Just 75 and sunny, worldwide all the time.
We actually see this cycle every year.
It's called SUMMER.
yitbos
Why is it that the record temperatures for the United States occurred over 100 years ago before automobilies etc?
"Spin it at a fast enough velocity and it becomes fact...."
...The MSM credo
runaway horsesh*t greenhouse effect.
State high temperature records
State Temp Date Station Elevation (feet)
Ala. 112 Sept. 5, 1925 Centerville 345
Alaska 100 June 27, 1915 Ft. Yukon 420*
Ariz. 128 June 29, 1994 Lake Havasu 505
Ark. 120 Aug. 10, 1936 Ozark 396
Calif. 134 July 10, 1913 Death Valley N/A
Colo. 118 July 11, 1888 Bennett 5,484
Conn. 106 July 15, 1995 Danbury 450
Del. 110 July 21, 1930 Millsboro 20
Fla. 109 June 29, 1931 Monticell0 207
Ga. 112 July 24, 1952 Louisville 132
Hawaii 100 April 27,1931 Pahala 850
Idaho 118 July 28, 1934 Orofino 1,027
Ill. 117 July 14, 1954 E. St Louis 410
Ind. 116 July 14, 1936 Collegeville 672
Iowa 118 July 20, 1934 Keokuk 614
Kansas 121 July 24, 1936 Alton 1,651
Ky. 114 July 28, 1930 Greensburg 581
La. 114 Aug. 10, 1936 Plain Dealing 268
Maine 105 July 10, 1911 N. Bridgton 450
Md. 109 July 10, 1936 Cumberland and Frederick 623, 325
Mass. 107 Aug. 2, 1975 New Bedford and Chester 120, 640
Mich. 112 July 13, 1936 Mio 963
Minn. 114 July 6, 1936 Moorhead 904
Miss. 115 July 29, 1930 Holly Springs 600
Mo 118 July 14, 1954 Warsaw and Union 705, 560
Mont. 117 July 5, 1937 Medicine Lake 1,950
Neb. 118 July 24, 1936 Minden 2,169
Nev. 125 June 29, 1994 Laughlin 605
N.H. 106 July 4, 1911 Nashua 125
N.J. 110 July 10, 1936 Runyon 18
N.M. 122 June 27, 1994 Lakewood N/A
N.Y. 108 July 22, 1926 Troy 35
N.C. 110 Aug. 21, 1983 Fayetteville 213
N.D. 121 July 6, 1936 Steele 1,857
Ohio 113 July 21, 1934 Gallipolis 673
Okla. 120 June 27, 1994 Tipton 1,350
Ore. 119 Aug. 10, 1898 Pendleton 1,074
Pa. 111 July 10, 1936 Phoenixville 100
R.I. 104 Aug. 2, 1975 Providence 51
S.C. 111 June 28, 1954 Camden 170
S.D. 120 July 5, 1936 Gannvalley 1,750
Tenn. 113 Aug. 9, 1930 Perryville 377
Texas 120 Aug. 12, 1936 Seymour 1,291
Utah 117 July 5, 1985 Saint George 2,880
Vt. 105 July 4, 1911 Vernon 310
Va. 110 July 15, 1954 Balcony Falls 725
Wash. 118 Aug. 5, 1961 Ice Harbor Dam 475 475
W. Va. 112 July 10, 1936 Martinsburg 435
Wis. 114 July 13, 1936 Wisconsin Dells 900
Wyo. 116 Aug. 8, 1983 Basin 3,500
*Elevation estimated
Source: U.S. National Climatic Data Center (last updated December 2000)
Let's all repost this story in early February, when it'll be the "coldest it's ever been".
I said to my brother last winter, "thank God for global warming, because otherwise, outside it would be four degrees instead of seven."
We are experiencing . . . (gasp) weather!
God help us! We're DOOMED I tell you, and we're all gonna DIE!
This hysteria is laughable. Guarantee: in 10 years or so people will look back on this fad-panic like people looked back on their Pet Rocks.
The debate is over. There's never been a January this hot.
ping
What I *love* is that extreme regional heat spikes (+15 to 20 degrees) is used as evidence of a projected 100 year temperture rise of about 1 to 2 degrees. For the former to cause the latter it would seem that a nearly similar spike downward from the mean would be necessary. But what do I know...
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