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July Heat Set U.S. Record
gollum123 sends this excerpt from CNN:
"The July heat wave that wilted crops, shriveled rivers and fueled wildfires officially went into the books Wednesday as the hottest single month on record for the continental United States. The average temperature across the Lower 48 was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration reported. That edged out the previous high mark, set in 1936, by two-tenths of a degree, NOAA said. In addition, the seven months of 2012 to date are the warmest of any year on record and were drier than average as well, NOAA said. U.S. forecasters started keeping records in 1895. And the past 12 months have been the warmest of any such period on record, topping a mark set between July 2011 and this past June. Every U.S. state except Washington experienced warmer-than-average temperatures, NOAA reported."
I certainly hope that this heat was an outlier, and not "the new normal".
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According to this report, global warming will make western Washington even gloomier than it already is. So while the rest of the nation bakes, people in Seattle will be perfectly comfortable while they're being glum.
The well thought out pro- and anti-global warming arguments are coming.
It's real!
No it isn't.
YOU SMELL!
YEAH, WELL, YOUR FACE!
America may be baking, but what about the planet as a whole? Before blaming the elevated temperatures on global warming, does anyone have data on whether or not the globe is also melting along with us?
Either a cold winter doesn't disprove AGW or this absolutely proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
CHOOSE
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
i'm moving to washington!
Been here my entire life, one of the most comfortable summers I can recall.
Over in England, We have had the wettest April through June since our records began [BBC News]. Please send us some sunny weather!
That's easy: I choose to accept all evidence that fits my predefined worldview (whatever that may be), and pretend any contradicting evidence doesn't exist or is incorrect.
Hey, it works for a lot of other things, why should AGW be any different?
I am officially gone from
Minor correction: the O in NOAA is Oceanic, not Oceanographic.
This may set a record for the national average, but it has been cooler and milder than last summer here in Oklahoma.
Our avg. July temp. is 91-94 F, but the past 3 or so summers it has been 7-10+F over avg.
Here is an example :this July.
And here is Aug. this year(so far...note the diff between avg. and observed)
Glad to share! ;-)
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
"Every U.S. state except Washington experienced warmer-than-average temperatures, NOAA reported." Run, children, run from the Pacific NorthWest. Do not come here, the sun does not shine.
In 2017 we will hear "5 years of falling temperatures" and in 2022 "no temperature rise for 10 years" and so on. Just like 1998.
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
You mean, the worldview of your wallet?
thegodmovie.com - watch it
All we have to do is water everything with Brawndo. It's the thirst mutilitator and it has elecrolights.
Ex-sceptic says climate change is down to humans
"The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature are in and Richard Muller, the study's director (formerly an AGW skeptic) declares, 'Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I'm now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19047501
CEO Exxon admits AGW is real and burning fossil fuels causes it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/27/exxon-ceo-climate-energy-fears-overblown/
The natural progression:
We are now at step 4.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
There have been so many adjustments to the 'data' for conformance to a psychological requirement of anthropogenic global warming that such 'news' stories are without merit.
LOL
there was no winter last winter here in NYC! it just went from fall to spring. it was fuckin' great walking to school in February and it's like 50 degrees out! sure, it's probably bad for the planet in the long run but fuck it. no one else cares, so why should I?
i'm pissed though i bought an expensive new coat in the fall of 2011 and now i find out winter is cancelled, oh well, maybe i can sell it to a Canadian or something.
Yep shore is... hot yesterday... gonna be hotter t'marruh I hear... uuuuuh huh... (spits tobacco)
ITT people talking about how hot it is outside. The pinnacle of intelligent conversation.
Up next: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Fortunately this does not mean the whole summer will be hot. Remember in May when it turned unseasonably hot and everyone was saying "OMG its gonna be killer hot from here to fall" and I said history does not support that. Well, until now June has been cooler than normal! After this heat wave, the rest of the summer will be closer to normal but with both more heat waves and some spells of below-normal temperatures expected through August. So relax, hot spells happen in summer in the south. We won't know what kind of summer it was until September!
It looks like the NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) is part of the NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service), is part of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), is part of the U.S. DOC (United States Department of Commerce).
I wonder what the Department of Commerce has to gain from this.
also, smoking is good for you! fuck that socialist surgeon general faggot and all the hippy doctors!
I've been watching climate change debates most of my life.
First, it was the threat of nucler wear, and the nuclear winter to follow. This was well explained, and there wa polenty of data to back it up, and anotehr good reason to abandon nuclear weapons. In the midst of the destruction and poisoning, we would be huddled around burning straw, freezing to death. Women and children would be affected the most.
Then, it was the new Ice Age, inevitable due to climate cycles that were very well explained and with plenty of data. This was a good reason to either acllerate the adoption of advanced technologies, or to eschew them in favor of a sustainable lifestyle in the coming freeze. Oh, and to get as much oil as possible, just in case. And of course it would cause calamity and chaos, we would need to share resources, and we might get by, but don't count on it. Oh, and women and children woudl be affected the most.
Next, it's Global Warming, with now massive evidence of the causes and impacts, much more data, and warnings that we need to do everything to both prevent and adapt to it. We need to abandon our technology, improve it, change fuel sources, use fuels that don't cause other harms, and do it all now. NOW. Oh, and women and children will be affected the most, and the soonest.
Well, if AGW is real, which it seems to be, then I'm ready to both prevent it and mitigate the consequences of what is going to happen no matter what we do.
Just one thing.
So far, most of the solutions to AGW rely on taking from me pretty much eveyrthing that makes my life, as a middle-class U.S. citizen, special. I can deal with that, but so far ther eis little real discussion of the problems of the rest of world hell-bent on achieving the same special life as I have. I don't begrudge them that. But I'm concerned that they are going to tip the climate over the edge sooner than I could have, and will not readily listen to complaints that they are ruining things for all of us.
I expect to give up a lot - I will have to change my diet, my transportation, pay way more taxes, do with less or most everything, and in the end all it will get me is a feeling of contribution. I will not live long enough to see the results. No, I am not that young.
And I will get the nagging feeling that deep inside this, the truth is, that most of the AGW movement is very, very happy that I am paying for my profiligate lifestyle. Because I neither deserve it, nor shoudl it be even permitted. That bunch has been at it since the Nuclear Winter debate, in one fashion or another.
Because that is the way it's going. The so-called 98% are taking it in the shorts, while the top 1% cling to their place at the top. And the bottom 1% scheme to take all of that and more from the top 1% first, and then from whoever they designate as their next targets. And when the top 1% is ruined, then it's the next 1% and the next.
Soon enough, it will be me.
All so a very few can have their way, and rule us all. They hope.
Then again, this may not work out that way. If sensible people prevail.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
In 1936, according to the article, it was almost as warm. Basically, a "so what?". Between then and now, States have had record cold temperatures as well. This report would be just one more Jeopardy! item, were it not for the political hay that will be made of it.
The article presents yet another piece of evidence supporting the AGW hypothesis, yet you argue as if it's the only such evidence. Obviously, no single anomaly or measurement is persuasive by itself, but the weight of the collective evidence is very clear, and this anomaly only makes it clearer. To pretend otherwise is dishonest.
The 5 stages of denial:
1: It's not happening.
2: It's happening, but it's no big deal.
3: It's happening, it's a big deal, but there's nothing we can do.
4: It's happening, it's a big deal, this is what we can do, but it's too expensive.
5: It's happening, it's a big deal, it's too late to do what we could have done earlier, next time be rich like us so you can insulate yourself from the consequences
Watch out for isolated snow storms in South Africa.
so take off all yo clothes...
(C-walks to the pool in the back yard)
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Maybe.. just maybe... the equipment in 2012 is slightly more accurate and calibrated a little different than the equipment used in the 1930s?
Crazy, I know.
I sure am glad global warming doesn't exist, this could have been SO much worse.
-AI
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion
Yeah he said no snow in England... not no snow anywhere. They are at the end of the gulf stream so they get extra heat accumulated along they length of the current.
Sounds like a Republican friend of mine. Come to think of it, sounds like every idiot Republican newly elected to Congress last cycle. Not kidding about that either.
Meanwhile, the rest of us who know that weather is not climate and that things like this should not be taken as proof BUT should be properly investigated will continue to get called all sorts of names by the people in power, their paid shills, and the uneducated cretins who continue to vote against their own interests.
1936 was an outlier. It happened "every 7 decades or so".
The last decade, setting YEAR AFTER YEAR records was NOT an outlier.
North Carolina passed a law against global warming. This is illegal!
I expect to give up a lot - I will have to change my diet, my transportation, pay way more taxes, do with less or most everything, and in the end all it will get me is a feeling of contribution. I will not live long enough to see the results. No, I am not that young.
This is what the beginnings of thinking beyond yourself feels like. To consider others, including the generations who are not your direct descendents. You do not live long enough to see the results. You will not be thanked in anyone's memory. You will find no thrill since your contribution is miniscule, while impotence prevents you from influencing others to do more. Your giving up a "profligate lifestyle" is without personal benefit even as deniers and the ignorant enjoy profits and luxuries. You will do it because the alternative is a horror you can't ignore nor contribute to. This is what it's like to be a fairly aware individual.
We've seen what the rich 1% do with the world. And you're right, it's past time to have more "sensible people prevail."
Between then and now, States have had record cold temperatures as well.
That's why you want to look at the rate of record highs to record lows. There is a field that works out how to understand if we are looking at trends or outliers. It is called statistics.
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
"Missouri was the most anomalously hot state in July, yet measured maximum temperatures were only sixth hottest on record – five degrees cooler than 1934."
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/heatwave-center-was-sixth-hottest-on-record.
"Warrenton, Missouri is located right at the hottest of the hot in July, 2012. ... Average temperatures in Warrenton during July were six degrees cooler than 1901, 1934 and 1936, and almost one degree cooler than 1954. ... July 2012 wasn’t anywhere near as hot as July 1936."
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/record-heat-fraud-ground-zero.
Since most of the North American population lives in/near the contiguous U.S., this sure may seem like global warming. However, if it is global warming, then Alaska must have a thermal wall around it because last winter was phenomenally snowy on the southern coast [1], and insanely cold [2]. In fact, if the unofficial temperature was accurate, on January 28, 2012, a certain spot in Alaska came only 2 degrees Fahrenheit from the North American record cold temperature [3].
This summer has been very cool, too [4]. The rest of this month is predicted to be colder than average [5]. Most Alaskans would tell you that they think of global warming as nothing more than fantasy they wished was reality.
[1] adn.com/2012/04/07/2411798/city-inches-closer-to-the-seasonal.html, thecordovatimes.com/article/1202big_snow_of_2012
[2] newsminer.com/view/full_story/17574836/article-Frigid-weather-dominated-Alaska-throughout-January, newsminer.com/view/full_story/17366572/article-Brrrr--Alaska-shivered-through-one-of-coldest-Januarys-on-record, adn.com/2012/01/27/2287406/anchorage-on-track-to-set-record.html
[3] wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=59
[4] newsminer.com/view/full_story/19659433/article-Fairbanks-sees-cool--fairly-dry-month-of-July
[5] See latter part of the article in [4]
The glass is always full...
While those of good nature with light in their hearts
Find goodness in each of life various parts,
They see each blessing as a bountiful bowl;
A half glass of water they see as half full.
But I say these folks need a stick in the eye!
Beat them in the head till they break down and cry.
Tell me not to be cheery! To you I say this:
My life is a glass that is half full of piss.
(everybody now!)
Tallu tallary ta tippy tarye,
I shan't feel better till the barrel is dry.
So fill up me tankard with that good foamy bliss!
Me life is a glass that is half full of piss.
(With apologies / thanks to The Poxy Boggards.)
"What in the name of Fats Waller is that?"
"A four-foot prune."
"The press release is out, and the usual serial bloviators are rushing to trumpet the news. July 2012 was the hottest ever on record! “Yikes! We’re gonna roast! Global Warming!” ... Of course the first thing I do when I see these sorts of things is go look at the data. It tells a far more interesting and credible story. Here’s some graphs NCDC and Seth won’t ever put in a press release or AP story:"
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/08/dear-noaa-and-seth-which-1930s-were-you-referring-to-when-you-say-july-is-the-record-warmest
Clearly this is all Al Gore's fault!
Been doing some backgrounding on this.
Looks like a common thread is emerging.
The Anthropogenic Global Warming types are:
1) Creationists.
2) Believe in a 'Flat Earth', i.e. Earth is a plane and at the center of the Universe.
3) The Earth is NOT 4.5 billion years old, they contend. It is 4006 years according
to a Biblical interpretation.
Ah Ha.
I will posit that the Anthropogenic Global Warming Believers also Deny Human Evolution.
Lordy Lordy Lordy.
Hmmmm.
Lets also observer that the Anthropogenic Global Warming Believers are ... Caucasian ... or desperately hope to be one ... Protestant.
!!!!!!!
Now we have them profiled.
Laugh Out Loud
All I see is a headline with a new U.S. record !
Go team USA!
that the sun is has basically started it's solar max cycle right now even though the predictions were for 2010 - 2011 with one scientist say 2012. Some say 2013 now. I personally believe since the solar storms have already started that it has started and will peak in February.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10mar_stormwarning/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/20jul_tasteofsolarmax/
Pitch Forks: check Torches: check Angry People: check - A. LaChasse V for Victory
And we all know, weather is climate when it's hot, and not climate when it's cold.
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
Climatologists do get to work with some pretty precisely determined average temperatures owing to the central limit theorem.
...meanwhile, all nine provinces of South Africa got snow at the same time and severe flooding in the Karoo desert. Obviously this must be the start of the next Ice Age and it is clearly all due to Man Made Global Warming...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Deniers are not only sociopaths, they're also crying terrified babies. For some reason, they've forgotten what a properly primed market can do. We are seeing adoption of renewable energy sources far in excess of predictions just 8 years ago. Why's that? Some governments are properly incentivizing the research and development of transformative technologies.
Meanwhile, the entrenched interests continue to muddy the situation with studies from the Heartland Institute and other wholly self-serving tools. We _can_ turn things around, and still have a very good standard of living. But the people who profit from the status quo aren't interested in seeing their golden goose fly away.
Amory Lovins of the rocky mountain institute has been teaching businesses how they can save energy and money _at the same time_ since the 70s. He's just published a new book ( a must read for anyone who doesn't want to wring their hands and whimper ) called "Reinventing Fire". It shows how we can transform our economy and enjoy GDP _growth_ - by eliminating inefficiencies, and rewarding new technologies and systems.
We made this mess. If we are willing to try without fear, we can certainly clean it up.
July may have been the hottest month in the United States since 1871 but that doesn't even include the Middle Ages. Give me a break!
You could say, "The world's population has never been less than 1.5 billion people" by using estimates of the world population but only going back to 1871,
If I used a sig over again, would anyone notice?
From Wikipedia: [begin Quote]
The thermometer was used by the originators of the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales.
Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, devised the Celsius scale, which was described in his publication the origin of the Celsius temperature scale in 1742.
Celsius used two fixed points in his scale: the temperature of melting ice and the temperature of boiling water. This wasn't a new idea, since Isaac Newton was already working on something similar. The distinction of Celsius was to use the condition of melting and not that of freezing. The experiments for reaching a good calibration of his thermometer lasted for 2 winters. By performing the same experiment over and over again, he discovered that ice always melted at the same calibration mark on the thermometer. He found a similar fixed point in the calibration of boiling water to water vapour (when this is done to high precision, a variation will be seen with atmospheric pressure; Celsius noted this). At the moment that he removed the thermometer from the vapour, the mercury level climbed slightly. This was related to the rapid cooling (and contraction) of the glass.
When Celsius decided to use his own temperature scale, he originally defined his scale "upside-down", i.e. he chose to set the boiling point of pure water at 0 C (212 F) and the freezing point at 100 C (32 F).[1] One year later Frenchman Jean-Pierre Christin proposed to invert the scale with the freezing point at 0 C (32 F) and the boiling point at 100 C (212 F).[2] He named it Centigrade (100 grades).
Finally, Celsius proposed a method of calibrating a thermometer:
Place the cylinder of the thermometer in melting ice made of pure water and mark the point where the fluid in the thermometer stabilises. This point is the freeze/thaw point of water.
In the same manner mark the point where the fluid stabilises when the thermometer is placed in boiling water vapour.
Divide the length between the two marks into 100 equal parts.
These points are adequate for approximate calibration but both vary with atmospheric pressure. Nowadays, the triple point of water is used instead of the freezing point (the triple point occurs at 273.16 kelvins (K), 0.01 C).
Before the discovery of the true thermodynamic temperature, the thermometer defined the temperature; thermometers made with different materials would define different temperature scales (a coloured alcohol thermometer would give a slightly different reading than a mercury thermometer at, say half-scale). In practice several materials gave very similar temperatures to each other and, when discovered, to the thermodynamic temperature.
[edit]Maximum thermometer
A medical mercury-in-glass maximum thermometer showing the temperature of 38.7 C.
A special kind of mercury-in-glass thermometer, called a maximum thermometer, works by having a constriction in the neck close to the bulb. As the temperature rises the mercury is pushed up through the constriction by the force of expansion. When the temperature falls the column of mercury breaks at the constriction and cannot return to the bulb thus remaining stationary in the tube. The observer can then read the maximum temperature over the set period of time. To reset the thermometer it must be swung sharply. This design is used in the traditional type of medical thermometer.
[edit]Maximum minimum thermometer
A maximum minimum thermometer, also known as Six's thermometer, is a thermometer which registers the maximum and minimum temperatures reached over a period of time, typically 24 hours. The original design contains mercury, but solely as a way to indicate the position of a column of alcohol whose expansion indicates the temperature; it is not a thermometer operated by the expansion of mercury; mercury-free versions are available.
[edit]Physical properties
Mercury cannot be used below the temperature at which it becomes solid, -38.83 C (-37.89 F). If the thermometer contains nitrogen, the gas may flow down into the column when the mercury solidifies
1. Everything is great. Here, buy my iphone.
2. Not enough, here, have this SUV
3. By the way, now that you have those things, use them a bit more would you!
4. You're using them too much, now we have to take them away.
5. You have to give them to us our we'll take your home, and your cat. Also, you no longer have any rights.
What's with it with you kids revising history? Global cooling was little more than a joke from journalists that didn't know any better that got printed along with all those "next year we'll having flying cars" bullshit. Even those those "in search of ..." false documentaries had more credibility.
I also have an American technician on a visit here that is doing that spitting thing all the time at work and it makes everyone want to hit him. Does that stuff happen a lot?
With that pathetic backpedal above but you didn't quite manage to move the goalposts far enough. I suppose "lol. Hansen" and "like the crazy guy on the street corner" is not quite equal to "didn't know anything" but it doesn't really matter which way you twist your words to win your silly troll game. I'm not playing whatever silly game you are and instead pointing out that if you are going to compare reputations like you tried above you are going to come out very far behind.
Sorry kid, you are too full of shit the play the "that idiot, what does he know" game and doing it against someone at the top of a completely different field is nothing other than childish.
I've looked at some of the records from weatherspark.com, and my personal experience tells me this summer has been significantly cooler at least in the eastern half of Texas than it was last year. Last year was a real scorcher, this year is at least cooler in terms of max heat.
Agreed, let's not have another endless argument. You ask what can we do to make the booming economies and lifestyles of India and China change, and the countries join us in preventing disaster. I think the question is too broad, and not only can I not answer it, no one can. Don't get me wrong, I like big picture utopias of cheap basement fusion, solar roofs and deserts, windmills with molten salt storage, underground homes, workers keeping the income instead of CEOs and shareholders and bankers, and... However, back on earth in the present: if you get specific, find something you're really interested in, then you can sort out approaches, figure out how to apply your skills, start gathering resources.
For example: I watched a documentary about a grade school kid who could hardly believe that a village in Kenya had no water. I guess he figured out what not doing anything leads to, so he had a fundraiser and built a manually operated (no CO2!) local well. Then he raised money for another. And toward the end he flew to the country to celebrate the 50th (or so) well. Another example: Women Helping Women started in the 1990s with one educated but poor person, now it's up to some 600 people in 20-something countries.
I won't presume to suggest what you should do, as I have no idea what you're capable of. You say these arguments are a waste of time. Maybe you've mastered the craft of endlessly detailed arguments, and are ready to move on. To participate in some productive task. Get on the phone or your feet and pick a project. Some are so desperate for people that they'd even be grateful for help from you or me. Or start one. If it doesn't work out, try another.
"Is that Fahrenheit or Celcius?"
"First one, then the other."
"Deniers are not only sociopaths,"
Just go away. Accusing those who questioned AGW of being 'sociopaths' is the tactic of socialists, anarchists, and those who just hate. You are a useful idiot. No different than the other extreme you mistakenly think i was part of.
Go protest something, and continue to derive meaning from it.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
You know all that stuff about measuring and how as you measure you have an error bar and how that error bar is used to define how many decimal places are significant?
But you probably didn't do science at homeschool, did you.
Guess what there's a lack of in our atmosphere? A strong roof keeping the atmosphere in.
Did you know that the tropopause is around 3km higher at the equator than the poles?
P=nRT/V
Temperature goes up, volume per mole goes up, pressure doesn't change much.
The 1930s solar maximum was very strong as well as the US drought and temperatures. I think this drought and temperature has surpassed that.
Ha. My ad hom is better than your ad hom.
I differentiate true skeptics from deniers. Scientists are the original true skeptic. Deniers will repeatedly ignore rebuttals of their faulty arguments, re-present their discredited positions, and ignore evidence that goes against their worldview. Inasmuch as they subvert useful discussion towards important societal concerns, they are, by definition, sociopaths. Try harder next time.
socialist? anarchist? I just presented a rational market based approach to solve the issue, that doesn't require that we stick our head in the sand. I'm not protesting, I'm adding useful information to the discussion. Tell you what. Look up Mr. Lovins' credentials and his excellent book, and then decide whether I rate Troll.
The record was set back in 1921 in my area. Was global warming a problem back then also? o.O
On a side note, it's very very dry here like most if the US however my area isn't anywhere near being in the top 10 driest years on record. This according to the local weather man about two weeks ago.
You forgot mine:
It's probably happening, however the potential reprecussions are severe enough that we should do something just in case.
To many people think of in terms of absoultes (it is or is not happening). I think more people need to think in terms of risk, of what might be potentionally happing, and what the results are from doing nothing.
Something like this, using the analysis and data available it is very difficult to prove with any absoulte certainty, however we can look at probable causes, and potentional outcomes, and make decisions based on that.
Here in the Pacific Northwest we've had one of the coolest, wettest summers ever. Oh, I forgot - if it happens on the east coast, it happens across the whole US.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
You say "Record Temperatures" but what you FAIL to mention is that the record is only by 0.2ÂF and the previous date is during the 1936 dust bowl. That's a mere two tenths of a degree which is well within the margin of error.
Stop being an alarmist. Shame on you.
When Hansen is saying the stuff you "lol Hansen" at, it is part of his job for NASA. If it was really such an extreme fabrication as you suggest then he would be out on the street and no longer be working for them.
Trying to deflect your "I know better than NASA" bullshit by personal attacks on the person than points it out is quite pathetic really.
I didn't read all the comments, but from the ones I read, no one has recognized that the US represents a mere 2% of the earth's surface. A few weeks of hot weather in one year on a tiny fraction of the earth's surface is hardly anything to get excited about. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/07/editorial-hansen-is-simply-wrong-and-a-complete-and-abject-failure/
Synchronizing stop lights across the US = one less nuclear power plant
The drought and abnormally warm temperatures in the Midwest started nearly a year ago, and it was clear from the beginning that the cause was a shift in the jet stream. The midwestern US was receiving the heat and precipitation normal for New Mexico and west Texas, because nearly all the weather patterns were flowing directly from there. We weren't getting Pacific storms, Alberta clippers, or flows north from the Gulf of Mexico.
Do the global warmists have an explanation that incorporates a shift in the jet stream?
Those idiots in the State of Washington better get with the program. Otherwise they are going to be left out in the cold.