NOAA: USA July Temps Below Normal For 3rd Year in a Row
NOAA July 2015 – USA – Below Normal For 3rd Year in a Row
1936 was ranked 121 (121 is hottest) and was 4.93F hotter than 2015.
2015 was only ranked 34.
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Claim: ‘Climate Change’ Could be Culprit With Legionnaires’ Disease on the Rise
Dr. David N. Fisman, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto: It is difficult to be certain that climate change is a factor but it seems plausible, he said. The bacteria is more infectious in warm temperatures and some studies, including one he and others did in 2005, have shown that wet, humid weather predicts an upsurge in the risk of contracting the disease over the following week or two. That finding was not replicated in Toronto, he said, but there the disease peaks later in October in that area.…
NOAA Record June Heat Claims Dismissed! “In Independent Datasets We See Widespread Model Failures” Says Expert Meteorologist
When asked about the NOAA results, former Accuweather veteran meteorologist and now chief meteorologist at Weatherbell Analytics Joe Bastardi expressed serious doubts on the NOAA June results. In an e-mail he commented:
“NCEP real time data, computed every 6 hours from model input shows no such thing. It is available to the public at weatherbell.com/temperature.php. […] How is it the NCEP data, where NCEP is a part of NOAA, show no such warming? […]Moreover using NCEP data May, 2015, was the NINTH warmist, not the first, and June looks like 5th since 1998.”…
Lack of electricity, blackouts from excessive demand from air conditioners leading to India heat fatalities
…Study reveals that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather
…Analysis: ‘More Nonsense About Heatwaves’
More Nonsense About Heatwaves
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/more-nonsense-about-heatwaves/
By Paul Homewood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32534488 More nonsense coming off the conveyer belt in time for Paris! From the BBC: England is set for more record-breaking warm years like 2014, say scientists. The chances of England experiencing an exceptionally warm year is 13 times more likely due to human influences on climate, a study suggests. 2014 was the UK’s warmest since records began in 1910. The research, published in Environmental Research Letters, is based on climate models and temperature records for England dating back to 1659. Dr Andrew King from the University of Melbourne is the lead researcher. “Both of our approaches showed that there is a significant and substantial increase in the likelihood of very warm years occurring in central England,” he said. Dr Peter Stott, of the Met Office Hadley Centre, said the new findings added to evidence that human-induced climate change was increasing the chances of record-breaking temperatures around the world, including in the UK. “At the Met Office we produced similar research late last year showing how climate change had made UK record breaking temperatures about 10 times more likely,” he said. “The fact that what might seem relatively modest rises in temperature around the world are causing quite dramatic increases in the likelihood of extreme temperatures may seem surprising but this is a well understood feature of how changes in mean temperatures affect extremes.” 2014 was the warmest year on record, with global temperatures 0.68C (1.24F) above the long-term average. It was also the UK’s warmest since records began in 1910. All they seem to be saying is that if the world warms up, so will Britain. Stott’s attempt to hype up “extreme temperatures” is, of course, nonsense, as he fails to explain that extreme cold temperatures will become less frequent. Meanwhile, back to the real world! Following the step up in UK temperatures in the 1980’s, also seen over much of Europe, there has been virtually no trend (the red line) in the Central England Temperature series. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html As we already know, the “record” year of 2014 was merely the combination of weather events, with no unusually warm months at all, merely the absence of cold ones, (see here.) As for those summer heatwaves, the summer of 1976 still holds the record, and there is little indication we are going to turn into Torremolinos anytime soon! Meanwhile, it’s May and I’ve …
NASA’s Gavin Schmidt boasted ‘hottest year’ claim ‘was a huge media story – even my parents noticed!’ – Admits ‘hottest year’ claims ‘are simply not that important’
Full Article here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2015/01/thoughts-on-2014-and-ongoing-temperature-trends/ …
Flashback 2005: NASA’s James Hansen: No Agreement On What Is ‘Surface Air Temperature’ …Few Observed Data Filled In With ‘Guesses’
2005 James Hansen: No Agreement On What Is “Surface Air Temperature”…Few Observed Data Filled In With “Guesses”
NASA has an interview with James Hansen (still) up at its site here. Here we see that “surface air temperature” (0 to 50 feet) is not even yet defined, let alone can it be determined. This does not only present lots of uncertainty in its determination, but also plenty of opportunity for measurement and interpretation mischief. Hat/tip: Reader Dennis. Here The NASA interview (my emphases added): ================================== GISS Surface Temperature Analysis The Elusive Absolute Surface Air Temperature (SAT) The GISTEMP analysis concerns only temperature anomalies, not absolute temperature. Temperature anomalies are computed relative to the base period 1951-1980. The reason to work with anomalies, rather than absolute temperature is that absolute temperature varies markedly in short distances, while monthly or annual temperature anomalies are representative of a much larger region. Indeed, we have shown (Hansen and Lebedeff, 1987) that temperature anomalies are strongly correlated out to distances of the order of 1000 km. Q. What exactly do we mean by SAT ? A. I doubt that there is a general agreement how to answer this question. Even at the same location, the temperature near the ground may be very different from the temperature 5 ft above the ground and different again from 10 ft or 50 ft above the ground. Particularly in the presence of vegetation (say in a rain forest), the temperature above the vegetation may be very different from the temperature below the top of the vegetation. A reasonable suggestion might be to use the average temperature of the first 50 ft of air either above ground or above the top of the vegetation. To measure SAT we have to agree on what it is and, as far as I know, no such standard has been suggested or generally adopted. Even if the 50 ft standard were adopted, I cannot imagine that a weather station would build a 50 ft stack of thermometers to be able to find the true SAT at its location. Q. What do we mean by daily mean SAT ? A. Again, there is no universally accepted correct answer. Should we note the temperature every 6 hours and report the mean, should we do it every 2 hours, hourly, have a machine record it every second, or simply take the average of the highest and lowest …
Cold kills: Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
Cold kills: Summer no sweat for Aussies but winter freeze fatal
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/13/cold-kills-summer-no-sweat-for-aussies-but-winter-freeze-fatal
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. From the Queensland University of Technology Across the country severe winters that are colder and drier than normal are a far bigger risk to health than sweltering summers that are hotter than average. QUT Associate Professor […]
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NOAA scientist debunks warmist claims about Alaska heatwave: ‘Heatwave is not evidence of climate change but rather the next stage in a long-term weather pattern’
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-baked-alaska-20150103-story.html
James E. Overland, a research oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would agree with the off-kilter part. But he would add mysterious to the mix, too.
Overland argues that Alaska’s very cool heat wave is not evidence of climate change but rather the next stage in a long-term weather pattern that began with six years of warming in the Bering Sea and southern Alaska, followed by six cold years.
“This year, then, was the breakdown of the string of cold years,” Overland said. “What all the scientists are wondering now [is]: Is this just one warm year? Could we flip back to a cold sequence again, or is this the start of a warm sequence? … We don’t know, and it makes a big difference.”…