In Florida....
In what has been a year of extraordinary weather, another record has fallen. It's been the hottest combined June, July and August in history.
"It's really been a fascinating year of weather,'' said Mike Clay, chief meteorologist for the Bay News 9.
In Tampa, the average temperature for those three months was 84.5 degrees, breaking the old record of 84.2, set in 1998. In St. Petersburg, the average was 85.6, breaking the old mark of 84.6, set in 1987.
Forecasters: Tampa Bay area summer is warmest on record - St. Petersburg Times
Climategate U-turn: Astonishment as scientist at centre of global warming email row admits data not well organised | Mail Online
"Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East AngliaÂ’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data."
Global Temperature
You won't get a straight answer from any PANIC-PANIC-DEATH-AND-DESTRUCTION-LIFE-AS-YOU-KNOW-IT-IS-OVER-BECAUSE-OF-GLOBAL-WARMING site -but we have actually only been keeping records of surface temperatures for a few DECADES. Even for temperatures 100 years ago, they must rely on what we know for a fact was a highly inaccurate way of measuring temperatures that did not block out the effects of direct sunlight, shade and wind chill at all and could easily add or subtract as much as 10-20 degrees off the REAL temperature. Much earlier than that and they are just guessing today. But man has been around for at least 10,000 years. Let's take a bet on whether this really has been the warmest June, July and August in HISTORY as this article claims. Wow, a really stunning claim given the FACT we weren't keeping records at all for most of HISTORY but only a handful of decades. Breaking a record since keeping track of surface temperatures -sure. So what? Given reality of how long we've been keeping that record, it actually means the odds that in ANY given year a record is going to be broken for either high or low -is remarkably high and remains high for the next................1350 years. And when you look to see if temperature records are being frequently broken -lo and behold, RECORDS LOWS were recorded just in the last few years which is why global warming enthusiasts dropped the phrase "global warming" for "climate change" and did so for the SPECIFIC purpose of
covering their asses no matter what the temperature did.
Climate change cannot EVER be determined on the basis of even a single year, much less three months of one year. It can't even be determined by a decade and isn't even reliable with 100 years. It requires thousands of years to be able to spot a clear climate change -and that is because the range of "normal variations" is incredibly IMMENSE!
The big picture: 65 million years of temperature swings « JoNova As is pointed out here, "With so much volatility in the graphs, anyone could play “pick a trend” and depending on which dot you start from, you can get any trend you want." That is what has been done by these "global warming oops let's cover our asses and start calling it climate change instead" liars who got caught red-handed falsifying, destroying and doctoring their findings.
But in fact many climatologists do believe that temperatures in Medieval times were higher than now -and not just this guy. And astonishingly, life as they knew it didn't end after all. But that doesn't work for the Al Gores of the world who want to use this as a pretext for making billions while relieving the rest of us of even more of our hard earned money.
If "they" do then "they" would certainly be correct in claiming that the global climate is heating up.
