Posted on 08/30/2026 8:28:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
American author Mark Twain famously stated: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Likewise, digging deeper into data sometimes reveals a different picture from what you saw at first glance. After combing through reports from more than 1,200 weather stations across the United States, former University of Alabama climatologist John Christy is challenging a commonly held belief that extreme high temperatures have become more prevalent.
According to his report, published this spring in the academic journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, the data don’t show an increase in extreme temperatures; rather, they indicate that temperatures have become more moderate over the past century. “We have the systematic measurements in the United States that show the extremes of the 1920s, ’30s and ’50s in terms of heat were much greater than the ones currently,” Christy told The Epoch Times.
“Even when you include the western parts of the country that are having their ‘1930s’ today, the rest of the country is not following the script.
“On balance, you don’t have a countrywide extreme event.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stated that average temperatures have risen by 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1850 and that this increase has accelerated in recent decades.
According to NOAA, the year 2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850, and the 10 warmest years during this period were all occurred the decade from 2015 to 2024.
[NOAA graph at article, not able to post]
Regarding the cause, NOAA said that “Earth’s average surface temperature has been rising because human-produced greenhouse gases are causing Earth to absorb more energy than it radiates back to space.”
However, Christy’s study indicates that, far from an increase in extreme weather, there has been an overall moderating of temperatures in the United States. In contrast to NOAA’s assessment, Christy’s analysis indicates fewer extreme high temperatures and extreme low temperatures since 1899.
Algorithms and Extremes Given that Christy and NOAA are looking at the same data, how can there be such a large discrepancy?
The difference stems from two main factors, Christy said. First, NOAA’s chart shows average annual temperatures, while Christy focused on the highest and lowest recorded temperatures during the warmest and coldest seasons. The extremes, he said, are more relevant to climate science because they are setting the “environmental boundaries” in which plants and animals live.
The second reason for the different results, Christy said, is that NOAA employs algorithms that eliminate data points it believes could be errors or anomalies.
Christy’s research entailed going back through the original reports and collecting the extreme data points that NOAA had removed from its calculations.
It includes more than a century of weather station reports, from early handwritten notations by the Army Signal Corps and the Weather Bureau to measurements taken by the military and federal agencies today, all of which are collected in a central network managed by NOAA.
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Real Climatologist and not the fake ones the democrats give white coats and cash to ? LOL
I’m in Redmond, Wa. Yesterday I had to wear a flannel shirt. Oh how I miss California weather.
agreed- complacency has led to a worldwide scam
Your 84 averaged with my 79 =
81.5
So that is it !
These folks are paid too much to push 'unicorns are killing motha Earf' type crapola - and for decades. It's bad enough our teachers are pushing communism but can't teach reading or math. At least they're not being paid the big bucks TV weather bimbos and pretentious 'men' are being paid. For that pay, they can do better.
Also there are many many bad data collection stations in their network. Bad for reasons of poor maintenance and obsolescence of site location. The obsolescence issue is where the site was once rural and representative of the countryside but is now urban (worse an airport!) and surrounded by concrete and heat emitters. Data collection and its maintenance is expensive and almost always the first things cut when the budget wars start. Unfortunately its the most important aspect of any scientific effort - GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out. This is why everyone loves computer simulation! Go down to Best Buy and buy half a dozen computers, network them together (or get time on a supercomputer!) write some simulation code. Then “Viola!” you have a whole scientific program and can publish results!
I find it funny that the sea level rise in the last 150 years is smaller than the difference of calculating the circumference of the earth using Euclidean geometry and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
If not for the paywall, the article might be interesting.
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Very Interesting!
Can you steer me towards a linky to see that info?
Which is exactly how palaeontologists end up with old dates for fossils they find. They throw out extraneous and nonconforming data to arrive at the ages they want.
Better yet, what is the temperature supposed to be?
The weather has cycles who knew.
Your 84 averaged with my 79 =
81.5
So that is it !
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minus 40 in Antarctica ...
“…from what you saw at first glance. “
First glance my ass. We’ve been getting biased crap from liars
I hear you. North Idaho here, had to light off the furnace last night. In August?
The record hot years are much worse from 1895 to 1935. Historians have failed to give the New Deal credit for stopping that.
Exactly- i used to run a website many many moons ago that showed that exact thing- many of the dating methods are extremely inaccurate- so they keep trying until they get their ‘right’ result
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