Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/25/2008 7:05:07 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
The coldest summer ever?
Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark ... 16 days out of 365. This year, however ... there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. ...
MEASURING THE MISERY
In terms of "coldest summer ever," however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60. There too, 2008 is a contender, having so far notched only 35 such days -- far below the summer-long average of 88.
Unless we get 10 more days of 60-degree or warmer temperatures, we're going to break the dismal 1971 record of only 46 such days, a possibility too awful to contemplate.
Still, according to a series of charts cobbled together Tuesday evening by a night-shift meteorologist in the weather service's Anchorage office, the current summer clearly has broken company with the record-setting warmth of recent years.
Consider: • 70-degree days. So far this summer there have been two. Usually there are 15. Last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 49. • 75-degree days. So far this summer there've been zero. Usually there are four. It may be hard to remember, but last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 23.
So are all bets off on global warming?
Hardly, scientists say. Climate change is a function of long-term trends, not single summers or individual hurricanes. Last year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it's "unequivocal" the world is warming, considering how 11 of the warmest years on record have occurred in the past 13 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Note that the waether "professionals" he used tried very, very hard to defend global warming anyway. From their comments, it is (deliberately) NOT clear that global temperatures have DECLINED between 1998 and 2008.
Note that the previous record (1970) was set during the very low point of global temperatures this century - after the long decline from 1935-40 peak to the mid-70's cold temperatures.
The story also (deliberately? ) presents conflicting/confusing info from the (pro-AGW extremists) at NOAA about La Nina's influence: " LA NINA Federal meteorologists trace a lot of the cool weather to ocean temperatures in the South Pacific. When the seas off the coast of Peru are 2 to 4 degrees cooler than normal, a La Nina weather pattern develops, which brings cooler-than- normal weather to Alaska. For most of the past year, La Nina (the opposite of El Nino, in which warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures occur off Peru) has prevailed. But that's now beginning to change. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site, water temperatures in the eastern South Pacific began to warm this summer -- and the weather should eventually follow. The current three-month outlook posted by the national Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., calls for below-normal temperatures for the south coast of Alaska from August through October -- turning to above-normal temperatures from October through December. "
As he concludes, "So what's going on in Alaska, which also posted a fairly frigid winter?"
It’s climate change you goof. Quit changing the spin, it will confuse people.
Remember, the NOAA and Hansen’s NASA Goddard office are your “friends” .....
So which is it?
I have one question toward the Global Warming paranoids....since when has the Earth never had climate change?
Great question.
Anyone know if there’s a valid reason why there was a drop in temps from ‘40 to ‘70?
Is this true? I am inclined to disbelieve it.
You are correct. This has been refuted.
Bugs that show up mid August have been here for a week and everything in Nature is hurried up. Sure hope we don't have snow mid August. Last few years been warm and not having first frost until September; sure hope we get a warm August but don't look that way this year.
I’ve never been to Atlin, but I was up in Prince George a couple of summers ago and it sure didn’t feel like “summer” at all. LOL.
My garden has turned into green slime with all the rain.
Even that statement should be full of caveats....like "since satellite records began in the 1980s", "forgetting about margins of error", and "mostly derived from UHI affected stations", and "assuming that the massive change in record types and methods didn't affect the data".
How’s the raspberries doing? Mine haven’t produced at all this year. I planted 10,000 bag of carrot seed; they ain’t gonna make it this year, too small from lack of any good June weather. I’ve had flowers ready to burst out on taters for 3 weeks, yet without any sun they won’t bloom. My cabbage should do ok, have over 100 in, but only small heads just starting; everything’s late. Wifey’s got 25 gallon bags of brocculli in freezer so far, but that’s it from garden. This worst year for the garden we’ve seen here in the interior; gets prohibitively expensive flying food in at over a dollar a lb. If we, get snow in August and lose it all; I’ll be eating chums 24/7 like the Indians; man I hate livin like that.
The mere assertion that the 11 hotest years on record have occurred during the past 13 years is proof of global warming. The fact that this assertion isn't true does not disprove global warming.
I've done well with fish. I got 4 100lb+ halibut in the freezer as we speak along with a couple of buckets of big PWS shrimp!
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