ALL 50 STATES recorded record high temperatures in July

[Claire Voyant]

. . .and just six months after several states recorded record lows:



No state in the union was safe from July's blistering heat wave, according to data from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center.
The horrible July heat wave, lasting weeks in some cities, the entire month in others, affected nearly 200 million people in the United States at some point. Preliminary data show that 2,712 high-temperature records were either tied or broken in July, compared with 1,444 last year, according to the NCDC. At least one weather station in all 50 states set or tied a daily high temperature record at some point during July.
Two weather stations tied for the hottest temperature recorded during July. The Blythe station in Riverside County, Calif., and the Gila Bend station in Maricopa County, Ariz., both hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.9 degrees Celsius) in July.
Even Alaska recorded unusually sweaty temperatures. The temperature at the Northway weather station in Southeast Fairbanks County hit a record 97 F (36.1 C) on July 11.
Newark, N.J., set an all-time high at 108 F (42.2 C) on July 22, breaking the record of 105 F (40.6 C), set in 2001.
In Washington, D.C., Dulles International Airport saw its hottest July on record this year and recorded its highest July temperature of all time at 105 F (40.6 C), on July 22. That same day, water in the nearby Potomac River was the hottest ever recorded at 96 F (35.4 C) (records go back to only 1988), reported the Capital Weather Gang blog.
The city of Morehead, Minn., had the dubious distinction as the hottest place on Earth for a day, said meteorologist Heidi Cullen of Climate Central, in an interview on National Public Radio. On July 19, the heat index there — a measure of humidity and temperature that indicates how hot the weather feels — was 134 F (56.7 C). (The National Weather Service later said this reading could be an anomaly due to the local weather station's location in a very wet field, and not representative of the entire town.)

[Claire Voyant]

All 50 States See Record Highs in July - Yahoo! News

[KR McKay]

What is most truly interesting on this subject, though, is the fact that, OVERALL, since 1998, the temperature of the Earth has actually been DECLINING, not rising.

On this subject, my dad recently sent me the following note:

I just saw an interesting comparison of the last 5 decades and days with temps above 95 degrees in the Charlotte [NC] metro area. In the 1950s there were 212 days above 95 degrees. So far this decade we have had 37 days above 95 degrees. Starting with the 60s and on to the present there has been a steady decline in the number of days above 95 degrees in each decade. The 50s were before global warming was ever conceived. Your mother remembers it well: No air conditioning, a wood cook stove, and uninsulated house with a metal roof. The global warming hoax has been around 15-20 years (?). As hot as we think it is, we actually have fewer days above 95 degrees since the inception of global warming than we had before. Just thought this was interesting and I would pass it on FWIW. Blessings. Love. Dad

[KR McKay]

How interesting, too, is the fact that this story has gotten VERY LITTLE play on this side of the "big pond":

Scientist who claimed polar bears were drowning is investigated for 'scientific misconduct' | Mail Online

Scientist who claimed polar bears were drowning is investigated for 'scientific misconduct'

• Probe hailed by climate change sceptics
  
• Defenders accuse U.S. government of 'persecution'
  

By David Derbyshire

Last updated at 9:22 PM on 28th July 2011

The scientist who claimed polar bears were drowning because of melting ice caps is being investigated for 'scientific misconduct'.

Dr Charles Monnett, an Alaskan wildlife biologist working for the U.S. government, stunned the world after spotting four polar bear bodies floating in the sea miles from shore.
He suggested the high winds and waves of a recent storm had exhausted the predators, which are normally good swimmers.
And in a scientific paper, he and colleagues argued that the increased incidence of storms caused by global warming, and the loss of ice for polar bears to walk on, could lead to more deaths in the future.
While the findings were seized upon by environmentalists as another peril of climate change, sceptics and some other scientists questioned the conclusions.

Yesterday it emerged Dr Monnett – who works for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement – has been placed on leave and is being investigated for 'integrity issues' apparently linked to the polar bear report.
Dr David Whitehouse, science adviser to the sceptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: 'The dangers of climate science is that once you passionately believe in man-made global warming, you see connections everywhere when you should be scientifically cautious about drawing conclusions.'
Dr Monnett is in charge of a £30million project researching the Arctic's wildlife. A BOEMRE spokesman declined to comment on an 'on-going internal investigation'.

The organisation is believed to have barred Dr Monnett from talking to reporters.
However, his suspension has infuriated conservationists who say the Obama administration is 'persecuting' Dr Monnett.
Dr Monnett's bear sighting in 2004 was the first such recorded incident. It was cited by Al Gore in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

In an article published two years later, Dr Monnett and his colleague Jeffrey Gleason said bear 'drowning-related deaths may increase if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues'.

Polar bears are considered strong swimmers, they wrote, but long-distance swims may be more exhausting than standing or walking on ice in better weather.
The paper drew worldwide attention and helped make the polar bear a 'poster child' for the global warming movement.
In 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.
Last year scientists working for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came under fire for exaggerating the threat of global warming.

The body falsely claimed Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 after lifting claims from an unsubstantiated report written by the green charity WWF.

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[Robert]

Meanwhile, the free-range grazing cheeseburger herds in the midwest US seem unaffected, save for their cheese being slightly melted.

[Everlasting Life]

Checking in from the NW and doing a bit of a double take at the article....because here in the NW, we have actually been having MUCH cooler temps than normal. I wish we were warmer!!! We've been wearing sweaters and long pants....in the summer.

Also, my MIL took a trip to Alaska (along the western portion) in July....and it was certainly NOT a warm event for her. In some places it was even raining quite a bit. Now, I don't know a whole lot about Alaskan weather normality....but this

Even Alaska recorded unusually sweaty temperatures.

from the article just doesn't jive with what my mil said.


Hmmmmmm..................

[GlennO]

KR - Thanks for posting truth without the "Chicken Little" political agenda!

[Suzanne]

Checking in from the NW and doing a bit of a double take at the article....because here in the NW, we have actually been having MUCH cooler temps than normal. I wish we were warmer!!! We've been wearing sweaters and long pants....in the summer.

Also, my MIL took a trip to Alaska (along the western portion) in July....and it was certainly NOT a warm event for her. In some places it was even raining quite a bit. Now, I don't know a whole lot about Alaskan weather normality....but this from the article just doesn't jive with what my mil said.


Hmmmmmm..................

This is true. Portland, OR has yet to have a 90 degree day. It is cooler than normal, and I hope that it stays this way right into the Fall.

[WKUHilltopper]

When I was in the 8th grade in the early 70's (maybe late 60's)--when the "earth day" nonsense started. In conjunction with this new, later to be revealed pagan holiday, we we're told by the year 2000 the earth would be so polluted that we would resort to cannibalism because there would be no food capable of being grown. That we would be lucky to live past 40 years old and that we'd be in a major ice age. Nothing like child abuse by trying to scare the pants off of little kids. But it's OK to be psychologically abusive when they do it.

It's interesting to also note that the so called "Earth Day" is also Lenin's birthday. Which is what I've said for years--Green is the new Red.