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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NOAA has an agenda. They knew the answer they wanted and threw out data that was “wrong”.
man o man are they gonna give him the joe bastardi treatment now
Yes, NOAA has an agenda alright.
Never Give Up The Con.
[[and threw out data that was “wrong”.]]
They had a satellite that didn’t give them the numbers to support their ‘warming trend’ claims, and what they did was claim that the satellite was ‘out of position’ and they INVENTED new numbers which they claimed ‘should have been the results’ had ‘the satellite been positioned properly’ or some such nonsense, and viola! Their new numbers showed a warming trend
I had the link to the article exposing it- but have since lost it- but this actually happened and can be found online-
What is the temperature on planet Earth “right now”?
It’s been a warm summer here in NC and it’s about to be another hot week coming up. Otherwise known as normal variations year to year.
}:-)4
12% of NOAA weather monitoring stations have been closed. They Only use estimated readings. Not real readings.
Estimated Data is not Real Data!
Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Using Climate Model data to validate the Climate Model is a garbage leftist trick to scare people.
Butt, butt, butt......climate covid?
> they INVENTED new numbers <
That happens a lot with these Climate Change fraudsters. They release “data” not from actual experiments, but from models. And of course a model can be tweaked to get any result you want.
That’s shameful. And it’s even more shameful that no one in the mainstream media cares to challenge them.
NOAA is lying; Trump needs to cut their “climate” funding 100% ...
84°F. But I am extrapolating from one data point.
They’re actresses\actors wannabes!? They’re just following the script they’ve been handed.
Bookmark.
It gets hot every summer,and it gets cold every winter...
> 84°F. But I am extrapolating from one data point. <
A true Climate Change answer would be more like 84.25 degrees F.
Those guys report their “data” with ridiculous precision, precision you can’t get in most labs. But evidently you can get when dealing with the entire Earth.
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