2010 The hottest year on record

[Chris]

If it seems like air conditioners have been cranking much more than usual the past few months and people have been sweating more outside, there’s a simple explanation: This summer officially went down as the hottest on record in New Jersey.

With the mercury first hitting 90 degrees on April 7, not a month has passed in which the Garden State hasn’t reached or topped that steamy temperature at least once, said David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University.

"We’ve really been baking in summers in New Jersey, and never more so than this summer,’’ Robinson said.

Hurricane Earl is expected to bring relief to hottest N.J. summer on record | NJ.com

 

[Old Rocks]

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their monthly report on global climate. The findings show that July 2010 was the 2nd warmest July on record, second only to July of 1998.Also from the period of January through July had the warmest average ever recorded. NOAA also found that the global sea surface temperatures were the fifth warmest on record for the month of July and for the period of January through July 2010 it was the 2nd warmest period, the warmest was recorded in 1998. July was the 305th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average.

Global temperatures warmest on record. - National NOAA Headlines | Examiner.com

NOAA Has lost whatever credibility they had with this fiasco. Try finding a more honest and accurate source 'cause they suck!

Top Climate Scientists Speak out on the Satellitegate Scandal

Canada Free Press

Why don't you just quote from the Weekly Globe, it is probably more accurate.

And you dare to try to pass yourself off as a scientist, let alone a geologist

 

[Old Rocks]

In Texas...

Houston will likely record its highest ever monthly temperature this August.

Through Thursday the city’s average temperature of 88.3 degrees this month is nearly a full degree above the hottest months on record — July 1980 and August 1962 — which each reached 87.5 degrees.

“At this point I’m fairly confident that this August is going to be the warmest month of all time,” said Chuck Roeseler, a senior forecaster with the Houston/Galveston office of the National Weather Service.

Although temperatures may moderate by the middle of next week, this weekend should be brutally hot.

Daytime highs will crest near 100 degrees as a high-pressure system keeps the mercury up. Overnight lows are likely to remain near 80 degrees.

It is this inability of temperatures to cool down overnight that has led to this month’s record warmth.

Prior to this summer, just once in the city’s 110-plus years of records had a daily minimum temperature ever bottomed out at 83 degrees in August.

Mercury nears a record in Houston's brutal heat | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston Huh? So far it's the first summer since 1997 that Houston HASN'T HIT 100 DEGREES. You might want to check your hysteria a little closer next time there little one.

Not as hot as you thought: Temps yet to reach 100 | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

You might want to check what you post before you lie about it, Walleyes. And, yes, once again I am pointing out that you are a liar. For here is the first few sentences of the article that you posted;

Not as hot as you thought: Temps yet to reach 100 | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston has been oh-so-close to triple digits this summer, hitting 99 degrees on four separate days.

Although it could do so this weekend, the official thermometer at George Bush Intercontinental has not yet tickled 100 degrees.

If Houston can continue to dance just under the century mark for a few more weeks, it will pass as the first summer in more than a decade without a 100-degree day.

That would be especially surprising given that August has been a real scorcher.

With an average temperature of 88.1 degrees, this month currently is on pace to be the warmest August on record in Houston.

Although the city hasn't had a summer without a 100-degree day since 1997, it wasn't always this way.

From the 1890s through the 1990s, Houston typically had five years each decade when the maximum temperature never broke triple digits.

 

[Old Rocks]

From the same article;

Not as hot as you thought: Temps yet to reach 100 | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

"I'd say urbanization has had a minor effect, maybe a degree or two on the hottest days," he said. "Likewise, Texas temperatures are overall warmer than they were for most of the previous century, contributing another degree or two on most days. Weather randomness also contributes to streaks such as this. So I'd apportion the blame equally among local urbanization, global warming and random luck."

 

[007]

Like Lovelock, I am an optimist. The human race is rather resilent. Probably, even in the worse case scenerio, there will be a few hundred million survivors. But the world they will be living in will be a sadly depleted one, with most of the animals we are familiar with gone.

So's the Earth. The Tahoe basin around the year 1900 was a moonscape. Every tree had been cut down and fed into the Comstock Lode mines. It looks pretty damned good now.

Sure does... I took this pic in 2005...

I know Wisconsin has been hot. DAMN hot. Hottest I can recall in fact. When you're sitting here listening to the news and the weather man says it was 90 degrees, and the average for around here this time of year is 76, and it's been like that all summer, something is going on.

 

[westwall]

Like Lovelock, I am an optimist. The human race is rather resilent. Probably, even in the worse case scenerio, there will be a few hundred million survivors. But the world they will be living in will be a sadly depleted one, with most of the animals we are familiar with gone.

So's the Earth. The Tahoe basin around the year 1900 was a moonscape. Every tree had been cut down and fed into the Comstock Lode mines. It looks pretty damned good now.

Sure does... I took this pic in 2005...

I know Wisconsin has been hot. DAMN hot. Hottest I can recall in fact. When you're sitting here listening to the news and the weather man says it was 90 degrees, and the average for around here this time of year is 76, and it's been like that all summer, something is going on.

Yeah it's called weather. Just imagine you were a cat. A cat lives for between 15 and 20 years. So if you were a cat watching you grow up you would see the 3 years of toddlerdome, the next five years of beginning to learn, and if you were lucky the next 12 years of you becoming an adult and finally making your own way in the world. But you as a cat would pass away before ever seeing what sort of life you lived, what sort of family you raised, what impact you had on the world.

Now think about this. To the world we're not even cats. We're not even fruitflys (who live 24 hours or so), we are around for such a vanishingly short time that we have no reference for how slowly the planet lives and breathes. Events that occured 1000 years ago are only now being felt today. Some cycles are even longer.

That is the point that I am making.

 

[Chris]

It's like the hottest summer ever, right?

A preliminary climate report released late Wednesday by the National Weather Service in Sterling, Va., confirms that notion.

Meteorological summer 2010, from June 1 through Aug. 31, will indeed go down in the record book with hottest average temperature on record.

Hottest summer ever! • Region (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The Capital)

 

[Chris]

MANHATTAN — It wasn't your imagination — this summer was the hottest ever.

June, July and August, and their record-breaking, triple-digit heat waves, will go down in the books as the hottest summer on record for New York City, according to the National Weather Service.

It Felt Like the Hottest Summer Ever in Manhattan — Because it Was - DNAinfo.com

 

[westwall]

No it wasn't the hottest summer ever. In some places it was certainly hot but interestingly enough it was cooler in more areas than it was hot. Also when you take out the false satellite data it was actually fairly cool overall. Then add in the fact that the only weather stations the alarmists chose to use are the ones with the highest levels of urban heat island effect and no it wasn't all that hot.

But then why tell the truth? You don't get your funding when you tell the truth!

It's all good though! The CCX is pretty much defunct. All of the GW horsecrap will just be a bad memory in a few months.

 

[IanC]

No it wasn't the hottest summer ever. In some places it was certainly hot but interestingly enough it was cooler in more areas than it was hot. Also when you take out the false satellite data it was actually fairly cool overall. Then add in the fact that the only weather stations the alarmists chose to use are the ones with the highest levels of urban heat island effect and no it wasn't all that hot.

I saw one graph that seemed to show that it was the rural stations that were 'corrected' upwards and the urban ones seemed to show no change after being corrected. just another case of 'settled science' that seems to stink to high heaven.

 

[Old Rocks]

No it wasn't the hottest summer ever. In some places it was certainly hot but interestingly enough it was cooler in more areas than it was hot. Also when you take out the false satellite data it was actually fairly cool overall. Then add in the fact that the only weather stations the alarmists chose to use are the ones with the highest levels of urban heat island effect and no it wasn't all that hot.

I saw one graph that seemed to show that it was the rural stations that were 'corrected' upwards and the urban ones seemed to show no change after being corrected. just another case of 'settled science' that seems to stink to high heaven.

Ian, if you are going to accuse people of fraud, then link your sources.

 

[Chris]

(WLTX) - The hottest months of the year are finally at an end and it's official - 2010 was the hottest summer ever for Columbia.

This summer was so extraordinary, one could easily write a small book on the summer of 2010. But, in an effort to save time (and boredom), we'll hit the highlights of this summer instead...

We all realize that this summer was a hot one, but it's hard to put in perspective how impressive this season really was. When compared to the other top 10 warmest summers, 1.27 degrees doesn't seem like much. But, in the statistical world of meteorology, this is huge. Breaking a record that spans 92 days by even 1/2 a degree would be significant, let alone what was accomplished this season. Mathematically, we can say that we have officially crushed the record.

It's Official: Summer 2010 Hottest on Record in Columbia, SC wltx.com | Columbia, SC News, Weather and Sports |

 

[IanC]

No it wasn't the hottest summer ever. In some places it was certainly hot but interestingly enough it was cooler in more areas than it was hot. Also when you take out the false satellite data it was actually fairly cool overall. Then add in the fact that the only weather stations the alarmists chose to use are the ones with the highest levels of urban heat island effect and no it wasn't all that hot.

I saw one graph that seemed to show that it was the rural stations that were 'corrected' upwards and the urban ones seemed to show no change after being corrected. just another case of 'settled science' that seems to stink to high heaven.

Ian, if you are going to accuse people of fraud, then link your sources.

Sorry Old Rocks, here you go

Station Set
oC/Century, 11-Year Average Based on the Use of

Raw Data
Adjusted Data

Rural (48)
0.11
0.58

Urban (48)
0.72
0.72

Rural + Urban (96)
0.47
0.65



The values in the table highlight four important considerations:


1) The rate of increase for rural locations, based on as-measured (raw) values, is small
(if not, in effect, zero) at 0.11 oC/century.


2) There is definitely a UHIE in that the urban raw data has a rate of increase of 0.72oC/century. This tells us that man has caused warming in urban locations. This finding should not surprise anyone. On the other hand, because the rural value is 15% of the urban value, the UHIE has not caused warming in the rural locations, and it certainly has not caused a global sense of warming other than the aspect that the urban location values when averaged with the rural values produce an average increase which is larger than that of the rural alone.


3) The rural + urban value for the adjusted data, 0.65oC/century, is still less than the 0.69oC/century published by the NCDC. Thus, likely, there are more urban than rural sites used by the NCDC.


4) And this is the "Temperaturegate" aspect: The NCDC's massaging -- they call it "adjusting" -- has resulted in an increase in the rural values, from a raw value of 0.11oC/century to an adjusted value of 0.58oC/century, and no change in the urban values. That is, the NCDC's treatment has forced the rural value to look more like that of the urban. This is the exact opposite of any rational consideration, given the growth of the sizes of and activities within urban locations, unless deception is the goal.
American Thinker: A Pending American Temperaturegate


EDIT: Wow! I followed links back and forth from the original article and found out a lot about Jones and his odd computations about Russian temps. His 1990 study showing that Urban Heat Island effect is negligible doesn't seem to match up with his later work that shows a large warming for Russia. Things that make you go hmmmm......
Do you want the links for those too, Old Rocks?

 

[Chris]

Sweat doesn't lie: Officially, this was the hottest summer ever in Philadelphia, and it wasn't even close.

The average daily high this summer, 88.7, was the highest ever.

Tenacity of summer's heat blisters the record | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/01/2010

 

[Chris]

Nature vented a hellacious summer on the Treasure Coast.

The area set an all-time three-month heat record: averaging 83.1 degrees, including nighttime temperatures, from June through August.

On the official record “thermometer,” the mercury edged out the prior record, set in 1998, by 0.4 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Melbourne.

But that was enough.

The figures are for the federal agency’s weather station in Vero Beach. The Weather Service doesn’t make historical comparisons of temperature records for the other Treasure Coast counties. Indian River County’s temperatures are considered typical of what happens in the other two because of its proximity.

This summer’s high and low temperatures each were the second hottest on record: 91.4 degrees during the day and 74.8 degrees at night. The combination was the highest ever, based on records dating to 1942.

Summer heat breaks records on Treasure Coast TCPalm.com

 

[edthecynic]

I saw one graph that seemed to show that it was the rural stations that were 'corrected' upwards and the urban ones seemed to show no change after being corrected. just another case of 'settled science' that seems to stink to high heaven.

Ian, if you are going to accuse people of fraud, then link your sources.

Sorry Old Rocks, here you go

Station Set
oC/Century, 11-Year Average Based on the Use of

Raw Data
Adjusted Data

Rural (48)
0.11
0.58

Urban (48)
0.72
0.72

Rural + Urban (96)
0.47
0.65



The values in the table highlight four important considerations:


1) The rate of increase for rural locations, based on as-measured (raw) values, is small
(if not, in effect, zero) at 0.11 oC/century.


2) There is definitely a UHIE in that the urban raw data has a rate of increase of 0.72oC/century. This tells us that man has caused warming in urban locations. This finding should not surprise anyone. On the other hand, because the rural value is 15% of the urban value, the UHIE has not caused warming in the rural locations, and it certainly has not caused a global sense of warming other than the aspect that the urban location values when averaged with the rural values produce an average increase which is larger than that of the rural alone.


3) The rural + urban value for the adjusted data, 0.65oC/century, is still less than the 0.69oC/century published by the NCDC. Thus, likely, there are more urban than rural sites used by the NCDC.


4) And this is the "Temperaturegate" aspect: The NCDC's massaging -- they call it "adjusting" -- has resulted in an increase in the rural values, from a raw value of 0.11oC/century to an adjusted value of 0.58oC/century, and no change in the urban values. That is, the NCDC's treatment has forced the rural value to look more like that of the urban. This is the exact opposite of any rational consideration, given the growth of the sizes of and activities within urban locations, unless deception is the goal.
American Thinker: A Pending American Temperaturegate


EDIT: Wow! I followed links back and forth from the original article and found out a lot about Jones and his odd computations about Russian temps. His 1990 study showing that Urban Heat Island effect is negligible doesn't seem to match up with his later work that shows a large warming for Russia. Things that make you go hmmmm......
Do you want the links for those too, Old Rocks?

Let's see, one cherry picked urban and one cherry picked rural station overrides all other ground stations combined. BRILLIANT

One question, how do you deniers explain the fact that the ground station data matches almost exactly the satellite data collected by deniers Spencer and Christy at UAH???? There is no UHIE in space so that excuse does not cut it with satellites and Christy and Spencer are not going to fudge the numbers in favor of global warming especially since they got caught fudging the numbers AGAINST global warming!!!!

 

[Old Rocks]

I saw one graph that seemed to show that it was the rural stations that were 'corrected' upwards and the urban ones seemed to show no change after being corrected. just another case of 'settled science' that seems to stink to high heaven.

Ian, if you are going to accuse people of fraud, then link your sources.

Sorry Old Rocks, here you go

Station Set
oC/Century, 11-Year Average Based on the Use of

Raw Data
Adjusted Data

Rural (48)
0.11
0.58

Urban (48)
0.72
0.72

Rural + Urban (96)
0.47
0.65



The values in the table highlight four important considerations:


1) The rate of increase for rural locations, based on as-measured (raw) values, is small
(if not, in effect, zero) at 0.11 oC/century.


2) There is definitely a UHIE in that the urban raw data has a rate of increase of 0.72oC/century. This tells us that man has caused warming in urban locations. This finding should not surprise anyone. On the other hand, because the rural value is 15% of the urban value, the UHIE has not caused warming in the rural locations, and it certainly has not caused a global sense of warming other than the aspect that the urban location values when averaged with the rural values produce an average increase which is larger than that of the rural alone.


3) The rural + urban value for the adjusted data, 0.65oC/century, is still less than the 0.69oC/century published by the NCDC. Thus, likely, there are more urban than rural sites used by the NCDC.


4) And this is the "Temperaturegate" aspect: The NCDC's massaging -- they call it "adjusting" -- has resulted in an increase in the rural values, from a raw value of 0.11oC/century to an adjusted value of 0.58oC/century, and no change in the urban values. That is, the NCDC's treatment has forced the rural value to look more like that of the urban. This is the exact opposite of any rational consideration, given the growth of the sizes of and activities within urban locations, unless deception is the goal.
American Thinker: A Pending American Temperaturegate


EDIT: Wow! I followed links back and forth from the original article and found out a lot about Jones and his odd computations about Russian temps. His 1990 study showing that Urban Heat Island effect is negligible doesn't seem to match up with his later work that shows a large warming for Russia. Things that make you go hmmmm......
Do you want the links for those too, Old Rocks?

If they are from the American Thinker, no. That is not a serious publication. On the par with the Weekly Globe. In it, politics are far more important than reality. Now if you wish to present some articles from Science, Nature, Journal of Geophysics, ect. then I will be quite willing to read your links.

Ian, scientists examine evidence and draw conclusions from that evidence. Those conclusions are not always correct, and there is as much glory in science for showing where the logic went wrong from the evidence to the conclusion as there is for the original conclusion. Were the evidence for AGW as shaky as the political writers claim, the young turks in the scientific community would have already exposed that.

 

[IanC]

edthecynic said-

One question, how do you deniers explain the fact that the ground station data matches almost exactly the satellite data collected by deniers Spencer and Christy at UAH???? There is no UHIE in space so that excuse does not cut it with satellites and Christy and Spencer are not going to fudge the numbers in favor of global warming especially since they got caught fudging the numbers AGAINST global warming!!!!

what makes you think the satellite data is accurate, or even precise? between bad instruments, bad programming, bad 'corrections', bad calibrations, and even bad satellites why would you place great faith in them? If the land stations are as close to the satellites as you say then that is yet another reason to be suspicious. With all the problems both land and satellite temperature readings have had for decades I think the growing public skepticism is warranted.

 

[Old Rocks]

The satellite data and the ground weather stations show a very good corelation worldwide. In spite of the fact that several differant agencies from several differant nations are involves.

I trust the data from the ground stations and the satellites far more than I do the conclusions of the politically driven people at American Thinker.

 

[westwall]

The satellite data and the ground weather stations show a very good corelation worldwide. In spite of the fact that several differant agencies from several differant nations are involves.

I trust the data from the ground stations and the satellites far more than I do the conclusions of the politically driven people at American Thinker.

So, exactly what planet do you live on? The entire fleet of NOAA satellites was reading higher temps than were actually happening. One of which was a 600 degree reading in the arctic! There are even rumours floating around that they will be sued for providing fraudulent data....or don't you read the newspapers?