Posted on 10/21/2014 8:53:31 AM PDT by CedarDave
Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say.
That's because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example.
"This is one of many indicators that climate change has not stopped and that it continues to be one of the most important issues facing humanity," said University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles.
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Statements like those two above call into doubt the governments ability to provide any type of reliable scientific information when such reports are driven as much by a political agenda as science.
There is much information that locations used for these readings are cherry-picked to give higher temperatures. Examples are locations now affected by urban heat effects (radiant heat from black asphalt and roofs), stations located near outside A/C compressors, stations dropped from use due to rural location, and data "adjustment" by NOAA technicians. These problems have been well documented by other meteorologists who note that in total the NOAA results show higher temperatures. The NOAA (and NASA) results lead to calls by global warming activists for government controls to the economy and our lifestyles.
The author needs to get on the Joe Bastardi ping list and get his mind right.
I thought this was one of the coldest winters on record (in USA, and it hasn’t been a really hot summer either.
How did they get this? Has it been exceptionally hot in other parts of the world?
Again I must ask, why is ‘warmer’ bad ?
Send some of it my way. It’s a dreary, damp 48 here in Central Ohio. I’d like to get some autumn golf in before the leaves are gone.
Cold records fell too, but why mention that?
Video: Why science reporter Seth Borenstein at the Associated Press is more about ‘New Catch Phrases’ and less about science
Do we have weather stations in Sierra Leone, or Liberia ?
If not, then how can we conclude we have ‘all’ the data ?
2014 Arctic Sea Ice making a very nice comeback:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
I love warm weather.
Warmer means better harvests over more of the earth’s surface.
Warm is good. Anyhow, we’re talking something like half a degree over half a century, so lets get real here.
Borenstein and the AP have been dealing in climate alarmist propaganda for years. They are engaged in a campaign of political ideology that has nothing to do with science.
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About five years ago, I was reading up on the former Soviet Union, and one of the few things that they really did a lot of research on....was weather.
There were literally thousands of weather-monitoring stations throughout the Soviet Union and had been gathering data from the 1920s up to the 1990s. Then, suddenly with the collapse of the Soviet Union....the vast number of gathering stations were simply halted, period.
Strangely enough, the weather geek guys of the world....were using this collected data. With the hole now in place....they can’t show anything for two decades now for a massive number of sites.
Here’s the odd thing....most of these weather sites in the Soviet Union? They were in non-urban areas and really tell us a lot about how urban heat magnets affect areas like Moscow, Atlanta, Paris, etc. If the non-urban areas didn’t really change over the past two decades....it would be a really unsettling episode for the climate change crowd....showing heat magnets are the problem, which we could easily fix.
At a time when everything coming out of the government and all information released from government agencies has reached an all time LOW of credibility... we supposed to accept THIS?
Really?
For decades the government has consistently proved itself to be the LEAST credible, accurate, reliable, honorable, efficient, unbiased, informed or knowledgeable entity in America. So NOW of all times, we're supposed to accept their latest and most laughably groundless, idiotic dogma?
Possibly. I don't know how much NOAA uses the satellite data since in the reports I've seen it shows no warming.
They never give up.
I agree MNDude. Even down here in the Deep South, while it’s always hot in the Summer, our Spring was longer lasting and cooler Fall weather seems to have arrived earlier this year. I’d like to see the data and how it’s compiled. Heck, supposedly the ice cover grew at the Antarctic this year too. I’m calling BS on this.
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