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Posted on 12/29/2025 12:36:01 PM PST by Red Badger
A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.
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Death Valley has held the record for the hottest air temperature ever measured near Earth's surface for 112 years, but now scientists are calling for the title to be rescinded.
According to U.S. Weather Bureau data, the air temperature at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley reached a scorching 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.7 degrees Celsius) on July 10, 1913. This is still the highest air temperature on record, but its authenticity has been debated by meteorologists and climatologists, because — despite global warming — temperatures in the region have rarely reached 130 F (54.4 C) since 1913.
"I, along with many meteorologists and climatologists, have been quietly skeptical of the Death Valley world record our entire careers," Roy Spencer, a meteorologist and principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who recently led a study about Death Valley's world record status, told Live Science in an email.
For the study, Spencer and his colleagues analyzed July temperatures recorded at stations within 155 miles (250 kilometers) of Greenland Ranch between 1923 and 2024. The stations were 3,000 to 3,700 feet (910 to 1,130 meters) above sea level while Greenland Ranch is 178 feet (54 m) below sea level, so the researchers adjusted the data for elevation. (These were the closest stations to the ranch and provided the most reliable long-term data.) The team then compared the values and examined high-elevation July temperatures from 1913 to estimate the temperature at Greenland Ranch on that day.
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Welcome to death valley days
Maybe we can have Global Warming Greta do the measurement for us mid-August.
XXXXXXXXX takes their temp at the airport. All that asphalt and the blowoff from the planes...how accurate could it be?
Stopped reading right there.
I get it: Rescind the record to reset the bar so that when the lowered bar is broken, they can ran around crying about “man-made climate change!”
I wanna buy some 20 Mule Team Borax
Dr Roy Spencer was Rush Limbaugh’s Official Climatologist.
Here is a transcript of one of Rush’s first conversations with Spencer
Enjoy
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2007/02/28/facts_science_smash_the_global_warming_myth11/
And watch Ronald Regan?................
This isn’t the first time this has been debated and — pardoning the double negative — it is absolutely not clear that it did not happen. In analog terms it would have fit the pattern.
Oh yeah that’s right!
“authenticity has been debated by meteorologists and climatologists, because — despite global warming — temperatures in the region have rarely reached 130 F”
There is no global warming.
Who Cares? Honestly I wish I received a six figure salary, so I could argue with people about the WX. Sheesh!
This, so they can claim some recent temperatures were the hottest and... See! The world is getting hotter!
Are these fraudsters taking lessons from the Somalis.... or is it vice versa?
I drove a motorcycle through there in 2015.
It was 125 based on the thermometer on my bike. But when you get that hot, it’s like driving in an oven.
Its the hottest I am ever going to experience in this life.
I was stationed at 29 Palms Marine Corps Base in 1973. Had a Honda 350.
Burned a hole in a piston!............
I would have expected A city in some other country to be declared as Hottest Ever Recorded.
Someplace in the Delhi or Rajasthan areas of India, where it often goes OVER 122F’. Another place unfit for human habitation! Where is this supposed to be, the planet of Mercury? Appropriate Sun Block not yet invented.
I’ve been o Death valley...years ago. I was there in March..and it was a clear,sunny day At the “lip” of the valley it was something like 60 degrees. At the floor about 20 minutes later (about 100-200nbelow sea level) it was close to 80.
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