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Guardian: Heatwave sees record high temperatures around world this week

late said:
Repeating nonsense doesn't improve it.
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"It's just weather."

bxClsEHf

Doubt the planet’s summers are turning hotter? Look at these two maps


In the past several weeks, I’ve written article after article about all-time heat records broken on every continent in the Northern Hemisphere. I’ve pointed out the obvious — that these heat extremes are consistent with what we would expect in a warming world. This is a notion long-accepted by climate scientists.

Of course, a comparison of June 1976 and June 2018 shows just a snapshot of the change in temperature in recent decades. But if you compare January 2017 and January 1975 or October 2016 and October 1973, you’ll see similar results. Or, you can just watch the months and years in motion:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...se-two-maps/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a319057ea3ad
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Jack Hays said:
There are not more heat records being broken now than in previous years.
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The vast majority of those heat records were made in the last ten years.

I think that's called lying by omission.
 
late said:
The vast majority of those heat records were made in the last ten years.

I think that's called lying by omission.
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Your premise is false. The most heat records were set in the 1930's.

[FONT=&quot]. . . When the record daily high temperature across all 424 stations are analyzed, it’s easy to determine if it has gotten hotter in recent decades. When record temperatures are put into buckets by decade, it’s easy to see that most the 1930s was by far the hottest decade across the continental United States. The number of record highs is the 1930s is double the number of record highs in the 2000s. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th hottest decades were also in the early period, 1911-1960. The most recent decade, which has been affected the longest by global warming and is supposed to have the most “climate change”, is fairly anemic in 7th place with respect to record high temperatures. At least in the United States, the 2000s were not very extreme at all.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The same message holds for record high temperatures during the summer months. When the average person hears about global warming and record high temperatures, their minds likely go to a sweltering July day. The good news is the high temperature records for the summer months (JJA) are even more skewed to older decades. Whereas 60% of all daily record highs occurred before 1960, 70% of all record highs for the summer months occurred before 1960. The hottest days at the hottest time of the year were much more likely to occur in the past than in the present. The 1990s and 2000s set relatively few summer-time record highs. The vast majority of high temperature records in recent decades were in cold or cool season. For example, in the 1990s, more than twice as many daily record high temperatures were set in the winter months (4708) than were set in the summer months (2473). To the extent that global warming is happening, it is raising winter temperatures a few degrees, which is something most of the public would not be terribly concerned about. In fact, many of folks would consider this a good thing.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Taking a more granular look at individual years gives largely the same picture. The year with the most record high temperatures was 1936. The next few hottest years were also in the 1930s. Analyzing the 15 years with the most high temperature records shows that every single one of them occurs before the era of global warming began in the 1970s. The more recent years, which are supposed to have been particularly extreme, are dwarfed by the number of records set in 1911, 1925, and 1930s. Using a century-long scale makes recent years look neither particular hot nor particularly extreme.[/FONT]
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[h=1]'Record temperatures' placed in context with station history[/h][FONT=&quot]DayRec: An Interface for Exploring United States Record-Maximum/Minimum Daily Temperatures Essay by Greg Kent Foreword: There is a new resource for obtaining high/low temperature extremes. The DOE released the DayRec tool that has requirements for long and complete station records. I think this is a nifty source of information for cutting through the BS since…
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March 10, 2014[FONT=&quot] in [/FONT]Climate data[FONT=&quot], [/FONT]records[FONT=&quot].[/FONT]
 
calamity said:
"It's just weather."

bxClsEHf

Doubt the planet’s summers are turning hotter? Look at these two maps
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What about it?

What is the source of this data? When was it taken and by whom? What instruments were used? This is just modern art to me.
 
late said:
The vast majority of those heat records were made in the last ten years.

I think that's called lying by omission.
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You are not showing heat records. You are showing random numbers.

No one keeps track of global heat records.
 
Jack Hays said:
Your premise is false. The most heat records were set in the 1930's.

[FONT="]. . . When the record daily high temperature across all 424 stations are analyzed, it’s easy to determine if it has gotten hotter in recent decades. When record temperatures are put into buckets by decade, it’s easy to see that most the 1930s was by far the hottest decade across the continental United States. The number of record highs is the 1930s is double the number of record highs in the 2000s. The 2[FONT=inherit]nd[/FONT], 3[FONT=inherit]rd[/FONT], 4[FONT=inherit]th[/FONT], and 5[FONT=inherit]th[/FONT] hottest decades were also in the early period, 1911-1960. The most recent decade, which has been affected the longest by global warming and is supposed to have the most “climate change”, is fairly anemic in 7[FONT=inherit]th[/FONT] place with respect to record high temperatures. At least in the United States, the 2000s were not very extreme at all.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#404040][FONT="]The same message holds for record high temperatures during the summer months. When the average person hears about global warming and record high temperatures, their minds likely go to a sweltering July day. The good news is the high temperature records for the summer months (JJA) are even more skewed to older decades. Whereas 60% of all daily record highs occurred before 1960, 70% of all record highs for the summer months occurred before 1960. The hottest days at the hottest time of the year were much more likely to occur in the past than in the present. The 1990s and 2000s set relatively few summer-time record highs. The vast majority of high temperature records in recent decades were in cold or cool season. For example, in the 1990s, more than twice as many daily record high temperatures were set in the winter months (4708) than were set in the summer months (2473). To the extent that global warming is happening, it is raising winter temperatures a few degrees, which is something most of the public would not be terribly concerned about. In fact, many of folks would consider this a good thing.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Taking a more granular look at individual years gives largely the same picture. The year with the most record high temperatures was 1936. The next few hottest years were also in the 1930s. Analyzing the 15 years with the most high temperature records shows that every single one of them occurs before the era of global warming began in the 1970s. The more recent years, which are supposed to have been particularly extreme, are dwarfed by the number of records set in 1911, 1925, and 1930s. Using a century-long scale makes recent years look neither particular hot nor particularly extreme.[/FONT][/COLOR]
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[h=1]'Record temperatures' placed in context with station history[/h][FONT="][FONT=inherit]DayRec: An Interface for Exploring United States Record-Maximum/Minimum Daily Temperatures Essay by Greg Kent Foreword: There is a new resource for obtaining high/low temperature extremes. The DOE released the DayRec tool that has requirements for long and complete station records. I think this is a nifty source of information for cutting through the BS since…[/FONT]
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[URL="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/10/record-temperatrures-placed-in-context-with-station-history/"]March 10, 2014[/URL][FONT="] in [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://wattsupwiththat.com/category/climate-data/"]Climate data[/URL][FONT="], [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://wattsupwiththat.com/category/weather/records/"]records[/URL][FONT="].[/FONT]
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Well...at least for the locations of these stations anyway.
 
Visbek said:
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-high-temperatures-set-around-world-this-week

Algeria hit a record for high temperatures in all of Africa. Britain has its 3rd longest heatwave. Taiwan broke a record. Oman had 52 hours where the temperature did not drop below 107ºF. Siberia is 7ºC above normal, a condition which may melt more permafrost and release more methane (a greenhouse gas). California is breaking records.

The entire northern hemisphere is stuck in a heat wave.

All of this during an El Nina year, when temperatures are usually cooler.

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So we have a heat wave and all of a sudden the weather = climate again. Until it gets cooler, of course.

Average global temperatures have been at about the same level for over 20 years. This year is no exception so far.
 
LowDown said:
So we have a heat wave and all of a sudden the weather = climate again. Until it gets cooler, of course.

Average global temperatures have been at about the same level for over 20 years. This year is no exception so far.
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Any excuse to present the great Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
 
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