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NOAA says Summer 2014 was hottest ever...Houston we have a problem - Blog - weathertrends360
NOAA says Summer 2014 was hottest ever...Houston we have a problem!
September 22nd, 2014 | wt360
By now you've heard that NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) declared Summer 2014 was the hottest ever recorded across the globe. Really? They even have it displayed as the now infamous, but debunked, Hockey Stick in the form of a roller coaster. The Hockey Stick is the chart in Al Gore's fictional movie Inconvenient Truth that showed global temperatures have been steady for thousands of years but in the past 30 have sky rocketed out of control due to 400 parts per million of atmospheric carbon.
Do they think we all forgot about Climate Gate when the UK climate scientists willfully massaged data to make it look more extreme than it really was? Recall when the Penn State Climate Professor (responsible for this bogus hockey stick temperature chart) said to
UK counterparts "hide the decline" or "the trick" as they willfully massaged the data to create this totally fabricated temperature graph - still in use today at NOAA-NCDC. Sadly the massaging of climate data continues today and with a few key strokes the past magically was made cooler while the present is made warmer. Here's what NOAA is doing to weather history - see how warm Maine temperatures were in the early 1900s but now they've been cooled by NOAA-NCDC. But our government agency isn't alone as both the Australian Met Office and New Zealand Met Office are the next Climate Gates in the making. With a change in political parties down under came investigations into corruption with their government scientists - a warning for scientists everywhere who didn't learn that the TRUTH will eventually come out.
Back to this Summer being the hottest ever. Empirical and real weather data around the world suggests otherwise. The thousands of temperature sensors from all of the world's weather reporting stations says it was the coolest Summer in 6 years globally (graph below).
The number of hot days over 90F was also well below average - least in 10 years globally. Seems odd that the planet and oceans were so warm yet we didn't see that manifested with extreme heat waves? Hmmmmmm
Land based temperatures have all kinds of flaws like urban heat island affects, movement of sensors, instrumentation errors, etc. etc. so let's look at the Satellite temperature data to see if the planet was #1 hottest this Summer. Nope! Global temperatures (land and oceans) in the lower atmosphere near the surface were +0.20C above average. Graph below continues to show nearly 17 years without any Global Warming.
If we look at just the Ocean temperatures they were +0.22C above average but again nowhere near as hot as 2010 +0.35C, 2002 +0.29C, 2001 +0.29C and the mega El Nino year August 1998 +0.39C.
So assuming you believe the Oceans are blistering hot we have another inconvenient fact - Global Sea Ice is trending 600,000 sq kilometers to 1,100,00 sq kilometers ABOVE AVERAGE globally. Antarctica is bigger than it's ever been setting 7 records this past year and the North Pole is also +53% bigger than just two years ago and +12% bigger than 7 years ago when Al Gore said the North Pole ice would be gone in 2014 - ooopppssss - still here and expanding!
So if the planet is scorching hot and the oceans blistering hot than hurricanes should be rampant across the globe? Nope! The Atlantic continues with the longest streak of 9 straight years without a major land falling hurricane - longest stretch on record going back over 100 years. The other metrics include Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE Index) to measure the strength and longevity of Hurricanes/Typhoons and that too is 51% below average in the Atlantic - near 30 years lows and globally 13% below average. The Eastern Pacific off Mexico to Hawaii has been the active spot this year with weak El Nino type water temperatures - the exception to the global trends.
So the only explanation that Summer 2014 was the hottest ever is data manipulation or maybe some simple math mistakes as it just doesn't add up with reality.