2010 The hottest year on record

[edthecynic]

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.

I love it!

Back when Christy and Spencer were cooking the satellite data to contradict global warming by using the opposite sign to correct for diurnal satellite drift, deniers said their UAH satellite data was the ONLY accurate data. Now that they can't use the opposite sign any more, suddenly no satellite data is accurate any more.

Apparently satellite data is accurate beyond question when it goes against global warming but absolutely worthless when the same data supports global warming. A deniers catch 22.

 

[IanC]

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.

This is very interesting ground we are treading on. If I understand you correctly you are saying that a study that is quoted in a partisan magazine is no longer worthy of consideration? You linked several derivative stories to the global vegetation study in Science. So if I say that those magazines or newspapers were partisan liberally driven hacks then no one should read or consider the story? poppycock!

I find it unbelievable that you are so closeminded. IDEAS STAND ON THEIR OWN, it does not matter who says them but whether they have truth in them.

 

[Chris]

TAMPA - Even for Floridians accustomed to summers of brutal and relentless heat, this has been a summer like few in the Tampa Bay area have seen.

Statistics prove it.

This year produced the hottest May through August ever recorded at a number of locations, including Tampa.

Until this year, the hottest stretch of those four months in Tampa was 1998.

It also was the hottest May through August for St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Inverness and tied for hottest in Sarasota. It was the second hottest in Brooksville.

Statistics show Bay area's summer is a sizzler

 

[westwall]

TAMPA - Even for Floridians accustomed to summers of brutal and relentless heat, this has been a summer like few in the Tampa Bay area have seen.

Statistics prove it.

This year produced the hottest May through August ever recorded at a number of locations, including Tampa.

Until this year, the hottest stretch of those four months in Tampa was 1998.

It also was the hottest May through August for St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Inverness and tied for hottest in Sarasota. It was the second hottest in Brooksville.

Statistics show Bay area's summer is a sizzler

How about posting the whole article there Chris..... I've highlighted a couple of passages for you in case you missed them....like the passage where it says they won't equal the temp averaged in 1941, and they will tie for the record with FOUR other dates including 1951 OOOOPPSS, guess it's not such a big deal after all.


By NEIL JOHNSON

[email protected]

Published: September 4, 2010

TAMPA - Even for Floridians accustomed to summers of brutal and relentless heat, this has been a summer like few in the Tampa Bay area have seen.

Statistics prove it.

This year produced the hottest May through August ever recorded at a number of locations, including Tampa.

Until this year, the hottest stretch of those four months in Tampa was 1998.

It also was the hottest May through August for St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Inverness and tied for hottest in Sarasota. It was the second hottest in Brooksville.

And August's average temperature of 84.4 degrees looks like it will end up tied with 1951 for the fourth-hottest August in Tampa since records started in 1890. The warmest August in Tampa was 1941 at 85.1 degrees.

That follows the fourth-hottest May, second-hottest June and third-hottest July on record in Tampa.

Tampa wasn't alone in the sauna.

August was among the top 10 hottest Augusts in Lakeland, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, and looks to be the hottest August on record for Inverness.

The heat was unrelenting. The average temperature in Tampa was higher than normal for 24 days in August, according to National Weather Service records.

Meteorologists point to a dome of high pressure that hunkered over not just Florida, but the entire Southeast since before summer started and stubbornly remained in place.

Not as many clouds form to provide shade from the pounding afternoon sun. Air sinks under high pressure and grows warmer as it descends. The lack of clouds translates into fewer cooling afternoon thunderstorms.

Normally the high pressure shifts more to the north as summer drags on, but it stayed in place this year.

Mornings when low temperatures stayed in the high 70s or even low 80s also contributed.

Warm starts to the morning make it easier for temperatures to rise into the middle or even high 90s by afternoon instead of staying in the low 90s where they're supposed to be.

The weather service tracks monthly records by averaging each day's highs and lows, so warmer mornings also drive up the average.

There may be a bit of relief in the next few days, even if only temporarily.

Some dry air is filtering over the state, bringing a slight drop to humidity levels. Daytime temperatures over the next few days should hover in the low 90s, where they are supposed to be at this time of year.

But the biggest change could be in the mornings when the lows might drop to the lower 70s and even high 60s in counties away from the coast.

Reporter Neil Johnson can be reached at (813) 259-7731.

 

[Chris]

The hottest summer in recorded history in Muskegon brought sizzling business to the area's tourism industry after a year when the economy and poor weather dampened the summer fun in 2009.

Sizzling summer brings big dollars to Muskegon, West Michigan area | MLive.com

 

[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.

This is very interesting ground we are treading on. If I understand you correctly you are saying that a study that is quoted in a partisan magazine is no longer worthy of consideration? You linked several derivative stories to the global vegetation study in Science. So if I say that those magazines or newspapers were partisan liberally driven hacks then no one should read or consider the story? poppycock!

I find it unbelievable that you are so closeminded. IDEAS STAND ON THEIR OWN, it does not matter who says them but whether they have truth in them.

OK, ideas stand on their own. So what does the American Thinker present to counter the fact that CO2 absorbs IF in certain bands? After all, the work of Tyndall and the physicists that have come after him since 1858, can be challenged by anyone that has the good evidence. But you publish such evidence in a science journal. While the evidence might be correct, publishing it in a political journal, is hardly connecting with scientists.

Now Dr. Roy Spencer does not think that the feedback effects of global warming are nearly as serious as Dr. James Hansen believes they are. So he has written, and had accepted, an article concerning that subject in the Journal of Geophysical Research. A peer reviewed scientific journal. And has gotten considerable response to his article. That is how science is done.

You do not publish serious scientific papers in political journals. Just as one would not expect to see an article on political subjects in a scientific journal.

On the Debunking of Spencer’s Feedback Ideas: An Appeal to Physical Scientists Everywhere Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

 

[IanC]

Old Rocks- perhaps I have given you too much credit intellectually. Did you think that American Thinker was the publisher of Long's study? Or just a news outlet running a story on it?

Here is the pdf for Long. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Rate_of_Temp_Change_Raw_and_Adjusted_NCDC_Data.pdf

As far as ideas only being considered worthy if they are published in a peer reviewed journal....well you haven't been keeping up on climate science for the last decade, or reading the leaked emails from climategate. Peer review has been corrupted to a large extent for climate science.

 

[Chris]

The mercury on Sunday soared to a temple-scorching 39.9 degrees (104 F) in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, resetting the record for highest temperature this summer, the Meteorological Agency said.

It was also the highest temperature ever recorded in the month of September. The previous record, 39.7, was logged in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, on Sept. 2, 2000, the agency said.

Kyoto bakes as thermometer climbs to 39.9 | The Japan Times Online

 

[elvis]

yawn.

 

[Chris]

This summer is definitely one for the record books: It will go down as the hottest in 107 years, when the first temperatures in Henderson County were recorded.

The average temperature for June, July and August was 75.4 degrees, recorded at the Asheville Regional Airport in Fletcher, said Doug Outlaw, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Greer. That average temperature tops the National Weather Service’s records that date back to 1903.

Summer breaks record for hottest in 107 years | BlueRidgeNow.com

 

[elvis]

double yawn.

 

[Old Rocks]

Old Rocks- perhaps I have given you too much credit intellectually. Did you think that American Thinker was the publisher of Long's study? Or just a news outlet running a story on it?

Here is the pdf for Long. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Rate_of_Temp_Change_Raw_and_Adjusted_NCDC_Data.pdf

As far as ideas only being considered worthy if they are published in a peer reviewed journal....well you haven't been keeping up on climate science for the last decade, or reading the leaked emails from climategate. Peer review has been corrupted to a large extent for climate science.

Smart enough to look at the page that points out the source of the article. Which is the Science and Public Policy Institute. Another Conservative bullshit site. Not a peer reviewed article at all.

Science and Public Policy Institute - SourceWatch

Origin of SPPI
The initial media release of the Institute appears to have been issued on June 1, 2007. The release -- supporting the statements made by the then NASA Administrator Michael Griffin questioning global warming -- also listed Harriette Johnson from the Chicago-based think thank, the Heartland Institute as a media contact.[4]

From mid-July 2007 SPPI began publishing SPPI eWire, which is identical in content style to CSPP's Climate Weekly, Climate and Environment Weekly and Climate and Environment Review.[5] (SPPI is in the same building as CSPP, though in different offices - SPPI at Suite 299).[6] and CPPR at Suite 2100.

 

[Old Rocks]

From his conclusions, I would have to assume it is just the 'urban' glaciers then that are melting.


http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/i...of_Temp_Change_Raw_and_Adjusted_NCDC_Data.pdf

SUMMARY
Both raw and adjusted data from the NCDC has been examined for a selected Contiguous U. S. set of rural and urban stations, 48 each or one per State. The raw data provides 0.13 and 0.79 oC/century temperature increase for the rural and urban environments. The adjusted data provides 0.64 and 0.77 oC/century respectively. The rates for the raw data appear to correspond to the historical change of rural and urban U. S. populations and indicate warming is due to urban warming. Comparison of the adjusted data for the rural set to that of the raw data shows a systematic treatment that causes the rural adjusted set’s temperature rate of increase to be 5-fold more than that of the raw data. The adjusted urban data set’s and raw urban data set’s rates of temperature increase are the same. This suggests the consequence of the NCDC’s protocol for adjusting the data is to cause historical data to take on the time-line characteristics of urban data. The consequence intended or not, is to report a false rate of temperature increase for the Contiguous U. S.

 

[Chris]

Denver is sweltering in September, at least for the last two consecutive record-setting days.

The mercury hit 93 degrees at 1:38 p.m., at Denver International Airport, toppling a record-setting 92-degree mark for this date that had stood in Denver since 1956, said Kyle Fredin, a National Weather Service spokesman.

On Sunday Denver's high temperature of 96 degrees crushed the previous mark for Sept. 19 — 93 degrees — set in 1980.

Another heat record falls in Denver - The Denver Post

 

[Chris]

After a record-breaking weekend, above normal temperatures are expected continue today. Today's high in Phoenix will be 106, breaking the record of 105 in 2005. Expect a few clouds from time to time, otherwise, mostly sunny skies. A light breeze can also be expected, with winds gusting near 15 mph at times.

Arizona Weather: Record HEAT continues

 

[westwall]

After a record-breaking weekend, above normal temperatures are expected continue today. Today's high in Phoenix will be 106, breaking the record of 105 in 2005. Expect a few clouds from time to time, otherwise, mostly sunny skies. A light breeze can also be expected, with winds gusting near 15 mph at times.

Arizona Weather: Record HEAT continues

Snow in Russia allready...
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Fourth snowiest on record

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/files/moncov.nhland.txt

Record Snow in New Zealand

Snow from storm collapses stadium, continues to cause havoc | NATIONAL News

Snow is a month early in the Himalayas

Snowfall in Garhwal Himalayas nearly a month ahead of schedule - The Economic Times

Oh yeah that Arizona temperature is ONE weather station surrounded by tarmac at yet another airport. WUWT has a very nice little essay on it if you care to learn something about how the numbers are falsified. Of course trolls don't care to learn anything so expect the usual yapping about how Watt is an idiot or some such.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Here's why it was the hottest year

 

[Chris]

Here's why it was the hottest year

I think all sports reporters should look like Ines.

Beats the hell out of Tony Kornheiser.

 

[Chris]

This month the crew has been putting those practices into use as Shreveport experiences near-record heat and a drop in its normal monthly rainfall. The dry weather conditions also have prompted burn bans in Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto and Webster parishes.

There have been many days this month when the temperature has come close to the record temperature for that day, said Matthew Duplantis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Shreveport.

"We were sitting close on most days to reaching those records," he said. The high in Shreveport on Sept. 18 was one degree shy of the record high of 101.

Area battles near record heat, drop in rainfall | shreveporttimes.com | Shreveport Times

 

[Chris]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis saw record triple digit temperatures on Monday.

The Commercial Appeal reports the temperature registered 100 at 3:56 p.m. at the Memphis International Airport. The previous record for the date was 98 degrees in 2005.

And record temperatures are predicted to continue through most of the week.

Memphis sees record temperatures Monday - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports