How the hell are they measuring temperatures to come to this conclusion? I’ve paid attention to the weather, both in my home state, and across the nation, and I don’t see where 2011-2012 was any warmer than any year in the past 10+ years. In fact, I’d say this was a cooler period. In fact, I have not seen a summer in the past 10 years that was warmer than summers I recall from my youth.
It’s not about the actual temperature...it’s about the propaganda headline...most younguns don’t bother to read all of it, just skim the headline.
Being manipulated, of course. But it is them who will pay that tax for breathing, because they believe the earth is gettin hot from mankind!
Well, it is an election year. There’s bound to be a ton of hot air expelled.
The methods used by researchers to determine overall warming/cooling are as follows (as described by my Historical Geology Professor):
1) They have different points all over the earth that record temps (easily manipulated aka parking lots)
2) Ice Core recordings
3) Fossil evidence of plants
4) Mathematical models where all of the natural variation is taken into account and the residual (error) is all attributed to anthropogenic sources
5) Level of 0-18 and 0-16 in oceans
We are currently living in an inter-glacial period that comes after an ice age. So, it’s naturally getting warmer (supposedly) but humans are making it warmer faster.
After all, we know and take into account every little variable that has an effect o9n climate and its interaction with every other variable /sarc
I live in NW Washington and we had the coldest summer on record last year. I am kind of hoping for a little global warming up our way.
And I loved every bit of it!
Going to go throw some more tires on the fire now!
for me...
last summer was very cool
last winter was very warm
this spring has been very warm
I’m expecting(hoping) for a very cool summer this year.
The previous 2 years before that were very cool.
While the winter was virtually snow-free and warm in large parts (but not all) of the US, it was super-snowy and bitter cold in Europe!! It was just the reverse the previous winter.
If enviro-Nazis want to use the warm winter this past season as a spur for “cap and trade”, etc., they’re barking up the wrong tree!!!!
The author's name: Jason Samenow. Shouldn't that be Jason SameNowAsItEverWas?
Oh my, the sky is falling! I must run and tell the king!
The obvious cause of this instance of global warming is that Jason Samenow has been eating too many beans, and that he refuses to stop farting.
So why weren’t we all dead after 1895?
Or is the author picking and choosing what defines the "US average"?
It also cracks me up when they say the hottest since xxx years ago... Like the above 117 years... Well if it was that hot 117 years ago then it obviously within the normal range. And it doesn't at all make it some sort of anomaly proving that it is man made... So stupid on so many levels...
It seems to me they say this EVERY year.
This does not surprise me at all. Has anyone been watching the solar activity? Let them report this information that can be attributed to a non-man caused effect.
Somehow my tagline seems to be taking on more meaning, thanks GWB.
Since the national debt is the highest it has ever been, I posit that there is a positive correlation between increasing national debt and warming temperature trends.
Therefore, all we need to do to cool things down in this country is reduce our national debt...two problems solved with a single strategy.
The puddles of water on my deck were frozen this morning although tomorrow we will be set a record for warmth then cool back down with highs in the 50’s and lows in 30’s Helena, Mt
I don’t know what happened 117 years ago, but apparently it happened again.
Here’s an interesting article and discussion about how “scientists” are altering data to validate their global warming beliefs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2881154/posts