Posted on 07/22/2018 10:47:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is a slam-dunk certainty that American mainstream media will seize upon a recent story in the Los Angeles Times, “Southern California sets all-time heat records amid broiling conditions,” as justification for its continuing support of the contested theory of man-caused global warming. It has already happened with a Yahoo News story claiming that the new temperature records world-wide prove man causes climate change.
But there are problems in pursuing that path.
First, days that reach and exceed 117-degree temperatures have been known to happen for a very long time in the interior basin of southern California, sometimes referred to as “Death Valley” (though not to be confused with the literal Death Valley). There, temperatures rise above 120 degrees regularly nearly every summer.
The United States’ official all-time record high of 134 degrees F was set July 10, 1913, in California’s real Death Valley. A meteorologist quoted in the L.A. Times article intimates that is where the recent hot air originated, having been pushed westward (advected) over into the Los Angeles basin from an area of strong high pressure (anticyclone) centered farther inland.
Second, by 2018 (into the 21st century) a burgeoning urban heat island (one that now encompasses Los Angeles City proper, Los Angeles County, and the surrounding suburbs) has grown enough to produce excessively high temperatures to a much greater extent today than in past decades, when the population of California was much smaller.
The Los Angeles urban heat island adds more than four degrees to the daily maximum temperature over and above what it had been when earlier records were set in the 1950s. It was in the nature of things and about time for meteorological conditions to force upward a statistical departure from the accustomed, already hot and dry conditions Angelinos experience every passing summer. Weather records are made to be broken.
Third, a similar outbreak of record high temperatures (during several iconic record-setting heat waves of the past) persisted for weeks across the Upper Midwest and into the Atlantic states some eight decades ago during the 1930s (Dust Bowl). Extreme heat and drought happened in 1934 and again in 1936.
Our Midwestern and Great Plains forebears, who suffered greatly through the Depression years, also suffered through many summers when the daytime temperatures exceeded 100 degrees F and night-time temperatures remained in and above the mid-80s. In July 1936 the City of La Crosse, WI, experienced ten consecutive days when the maximum temperature reached or exceeded 100 degrees. On July 14 of that year, it was 108 in La Crosse, its all-time record. On that same date, the thermometer in Wisconsin Dells topped out at 114, the state’s all-time record high.
Record high temperatures happen, somewhere—in fact, in many somewheres—every day here and there around the world. So do record lows. They’re weather phenomena, not evidence of long-term climate change.
So take a seat Los Angeles, and join the club. Your turn came. Other places have had their turns. Still others will have them in the future. Most will have them repeatedly over centuries. Get used to it. It’s weather, not climate.
They’ve been claiming that the temperature will go up 2 degrees centigrade over the next ten years. How does that coincide with what they are claiming record highs that are already more than that?
Cold-temperature records are also being set in the Southern Hemisphere (winter).
The problem also has been shown repeatedly to be the result of poorly sited weather recording stations. There are thermometers placed inches from hvac condensers, thermometers in the path of jet wash, thermometers in the middle of acres of blacktop.
I’ve taken to referring to those predictions as “Free Beer Tomorrow” predictions.
Although I agree with you about the critical role of the sun, and am not a believer in anthropomorphic global warming, atmospheric conditions are a crucial factor in global temperatures. The moon, for instance has pronounced temperature swings (+260 degrees F in the sunlight, -280 degrees F where no sunlight), and is obviously a similar distance from the sun as we are. We are protected from these extreme swings by our atmosphere.
Of course the biggest problem is that all of this nonsense is by design. We have activists in charge of the recording activity who devise ways to manipulate not just the data, but the data collection systems. It is almost unbelievable.
It is always fun to read media articles on science.
Due to their completely elementary education, they are required to reproduce exactly whatever was provided to them as source text. Of course, even then they’ll feel free to alter/remove anything that differs from their first grade science predispositions.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
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Answer: Through human sacrifice, just like the ancient sun worshipers who thought they control the weather by appeasing their god this way.
In the 70s the socialist cry was Global Cooling ...
It is the Sun and variations in the orbit and rotation and tilt of the earth.
Excellent! The book The Neglected Sun is a great source of information.
Thanks for adding that. I’m on my cell phone typing short responses.
Does this mean we are all DOOMED?
Must be Trump's fault.....
"The Great Heat Wave of 1936; Hottest Summer in U.S. on Record"
July, 1936 – A heat wave sets temperature records throughout the USA:
Alton, Kansas - 121°
Alva, Oklahoma - 120°
Baltimore, Maryland - 107°
Bismark, North Dakota - 114°
Clinton, Missouri - 118°
Collegeville, Indiana - 116°
Columbus, Ohio - 106°
Cumberland, Maryland - 109°
Des Moines, Iowa - 110°
Logan - Iowa - 117°
Louisville, Kentucky - 107°
Martinsburg, West Virginia - 112°
Minden, Nebraska - 118°
Mio, Michigan - 112°
Moorehead, Minnesota - 114°
Minneapolis, Minnesota - 108°
New York City - 106°
Omaha, Nebraska - 114°
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania - 111°
Runyon, New Jersey - 110°
Steele, North Dakota - 121°
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin - 114°
Even the continued growth of mountain ranges exposes more carbon-loving minerals to bond to.
We must all begin yelling at the Sun.
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