Record US Heat? More Guardian Lies!
By Paul Homewood
If you tell a lie often enough, most people believe it!
Record heat?
Not according to NOAA:
The summer across the US as a whole was only the 15th hottest on mean temperatures, and 22nd for maximums, well below the 1930s.
Only one State, Louisiana, set a record temperature for the summer.
According to the US Climate Extremes Index, the percentage of the US with “much above normal temperatures” was not even unusually high, never mind most of the country, as falsely claimed by the Guardian:
The sum of (a) percentage of the United States with maximum temperatures much below normal and (b) percentage of the United States with maximum temperatures much above normal.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/cei/graph/us/06-08/1
Moreover no new State records have been set for daily temperatures:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/scec/
And even at Phoenix Airport, where we have been told the heat has been most extreme, the the temperature peaked at 119F, which is well below the 1990 record of 122F
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
So all in all, the Guardian’s claims are pure and simple fraud.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
And as we know the ‘new maximums’ are fiddled by over counting heat sink cities and airports. How much total heat is emitted per week from all the cars, buildings, planes and ships that didn’t exist 50 or 100 years ago??
The ecofascists don’t care about facts. Just look at all the things they now want to tax and ban that did not even exist during past climate changes and still do not exist on the uninhabited planets where the climate also changes.
Anthony Watts surfacestations.org project pf a while back showed that by using only verified rural weather stations, the USA had been in reality cooling for some time.
UHI is massively underestimated in the models. By necessity. In the same way that ECS is massively overestimated. By necessity. Or they’d all be out of jobs
What’s ECS??
Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, feedback in other words. Even if CO2 DOES control temperature (which long and short term, it is clear it does not) the ability of CO2 to produce further warning is almost played out. Climate loonies therefore only have ECS left as a means of promoting their ideology. They claim it is high, yet recent estimates make it to be lower and lower.
https://www.startpage.com/do/search?q=EQUILIBRIUM+CLIMATE+SENSITIVITY&segment=startpage.brave
Thank you, that’s very interesting.
Were ‘most Americans’ born after 1979, or the start of satellite weather data? The Guardian knows the answer.
In southwestern Ontario this summer cool and wet after a warm start in late May-early June……not a whisper from our CBC about this “anomaly”……just unending weather porn from warmer areas of the globe…..and hottest summer evah of course…
All these false reports, claiming warming, are a sign of desperation for the eco loons as support waivers, as reality starts to reappear.
I saw this one again today. It appears periodically when its hot.
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/neighborhoods-of-color-are-hotter-than-white-ones-regardless-of-income/
Even the NOAA has been caught out making false heat claims .https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-stunning-statistical-fraud-behind-the-global-warming-scare/
So if they show up the Gruniards figures as fake , you can be sure it is a lot more lies than their normal rubbish .
The Guardian is very upset about the PM pulling back on net zero and you can see this in the desperation with which they have scoured the world for suitable fearful reports. A once respectable newspaper ought to be ashamed of itself but of course we all know that its funding via the Scott Trust is underwritten by Gates, et. al.
Was it not CP Scott, Guardian editor, who , ironically now, said something like: “comment is free but facts are sacred”
Furthermore if the BBC broadcasts and Guardian website persist in false claims of climate extremes, arousing unjustified alarm in the more emotionally vulnerable members of the public then surely they can be prosecuted under the Online Safety Bill legislation (when it receives Royal Assent).
The only facts that are “sacred” to the climate mafia, are those that support the narrative, and those include even the ‘facts’ that are outright lies.
“A once respectable newspaper” just how far back are you going? I’m 67 and I can’t remember when it was ever anything other than dross make believe.
I am 76 and ditto
I’m 82 and remember when it was the Manchester Guardian. It wasn’t perfect but a lot better then than now.
johnfromcabanyal PERMALINK
September 24, 2023 9:50 am
I’m 82 and remember when it was the Manchester Guardian. It wasn’t perfect but a lot better then than now.
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I’m 72. Brought up near Stockport. Parents, old school Liberals took what was then a good newspaper, the Manchester Guardian. Some very fine journos, such as Neville Cardus, cricket his main focus. Fell into hideous disrepair when it moved to London, the foul Rusbridger helping it on its way to the execrable rag it is now.
I have said this before, but it is still relevant!
By the very strictest of definitions, CO2, IS a greenhouse gas!,
However the reality is this?
The only wavelengths of IR radiation that can heat a CO2 molecule are: 2.7, 4.3 and 15 micrometres, any other wavelengths, are irrelevant.
These minute heating effects are transitory, why? Because any CO2 molecule in the same trajectory, but at a greater distance, is unaffected!
If this was not the case, life anywhere in the Universe, would be impossible!
I will be more than happy to debate my subjective analysis?
By definition, carbon dioxide is an “atmospheric gas”. This from my plant physiology text in the 1960’s.
Only when in the confines of a greenhouse can it be called a “greenhouse gas” along with every other atmospheric gas inside the greenhouse.
The term was coined by the left in order to made it sound un-natural and scary. As a scientist, I refuse to go along with this misleading term.
+100!
Joan, huge crop of hickory* nuts down here this year.
Omen? Bad winter coming?
Or just evidence of very good summer weather this year, making for a bumper crop, regardless of Guardian agitprop.
*C. tomentosa
And we’ve got Black Walnuts a-gogo here in the Somerset paradise of Mells
Middle of England – literally – hedgerows groaning with huge quantities of fruit ( which some Farmers are doing their level best to eradicate..)
I have red and black oak acorns for the first time in 2 years. Some of these nuts require 2 years to mature, so you have to look back at the weather a previous year. It also requires that there be no killing frosts when the trees are in bloom.
Abundant mast years mean there will be increased numbers of wildlife. Around here, there may have been 3 litters of squirrels in some areas of the state due to the food abundance. I have plenty of squirrels, rabbits everywhere, deer and 2 large bucks. My urban hunters have to harvest a doe before they can go after the bucks. This makes no sense when the point of the urban hunt is to rid us of the deer. Each city makes its own rules on the hunt. It is w/ bow. Last year my hunter got 3, but alas moved the the southern part of the state w/ a good job offer. The 2 I have now are motivated, but the deer are not “cooperating” as of now.
have said this before, but it is still relevant!
By the very strictest of definitions, CO2, IS a greenhouse gas!,
However the reality is this?
The only wavelengths of IR radiation that can heat a CO2 molecule are: 2.7, 4.3 and 15 micrometres, any other wavelengths, are irrelevant.
These minute heating effects are transitory, why? Because any CO2 molecule in the same trajectory, but at a greater distance, is unaffected!
If this was not the case, life anywhere in the Universe, would be impossible!
I will be more than happy to debate my subjective analysis?
And by your post, thus the whole scam of AWG/CC being the cause of rising temperatures is scuppered as noted before; no argument, and the lying scumbags who trot out their utter claptrap, some of whom have made millions out of the inability of people to be sceptical, “do their research” and realise that this dwarfs by many orders of magnitude the Black Tulip AND the South Sea Bubble combined.
How did it come to this?
The scam was dreamt up to justify a world fascist government based on the UN – or Davos – and has turned into a massive money generator driven by stealing money from the population.
IOW – GRIFT on a global scale. The solution is FMJ technology applied WEP.
By definition, carbon dioxide is an “atmospheric gas”. This from my plant physiology text in the 1960’s.
Only when in the confines of a greenhouse can it be called a “greenhouse gas” along with every other atmospheric gas inside the greenhouse.
The term was coined by the left in order to made it sound un-natural and scary. As a scientist, I refuse to go along with this misleading term.
Agreed. Carbon dioxide does not work like an actual greenhouse. No gas does. “Greenhouse gas” is bull$#|+.
AH, the fact that you acknowledge that CO2 absorbs IR at the wavelengths you indicate is surely proof that it is indeed a greenhouse gas. In essence you have just argued yourself that it is a GHG.
I don’t think denying this does our side any good. You are denying something that can be demonstrated in simple physics experiments.
The problems with the climate change hysteria arise further along the chain than this I’m afraid.
@kzbkzb
The fact that CO2 in the atmosphere absorbs (and emits) selected bands of thermal radiant energy and therefore induces thermal radiant opacity in the atmosphere is a complete red herring.
See Peter L. Ward, U.S. Geological Survey who explains the interactions of radiation with matter.
Ozone Depletion Explains Global Warming. Current Physical Chemistry, 2016, 6, 275-296 DOI: 10.2174/18779468066661606090745 46
WTGR I do not think “you get it”. CO2 is at the very most a very marginal GHG – if at all – but saturation levels are, from all I have read, very important and any reflected warming stops beyond a set level of atmospheric CO2. I have read very cogent explanations of the very minimal part of the IR spectrum that CO2 reflects – it is very little, and its effect is vanishingly small .
Warming is/always has been/always will be happening- the key is why that is attributed BY humans TO humans – and that has been shot down in flames countless times especially when CO2 levels were much higher in pre human eras – any increase in global temperatures then, observed by humans now, could not possibly be due to the non existent human race. Logic dictates that there must be “another” or “other causes of action”.
Contrast that with water vapour, the most prevalent GHG….
How many times have scientists ( who are not captured by the AWG/CC Ultra Far Left Woke cult ) stated that “we do not understand enough about what influences our climate ” – add to that, where is the discussion from said Woke Cult members of the action and influence of the Sun?
The longer these UFLWC deluders spout their AWG/CC claptrap the more ridiculous – and easier, at least for some, to grasp exactly how – they sound and their hysteria gets ever more …hysterically dangerous and is a threat to us that is far far more damaging than their insistence that we humans pose to this planet ( 4 billion years and and counting ). Evidence – look at the greening of the Sahara , eg – if that is because of the CO2 ejected into the atmosphere by us worthless human criminals, would the UFLWC deluders wind that back if they had the power? How many people would die as a result? Would they be “content” and quote Stalin?
@ 186no
The exact details of CO2 saturation are complex. My understanding is that at pre industrial levels of about 280ppm the Earth was 2 or 3 degrees warmer than it would of been if there was no CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 becomes fully saturated at about 500ppm, however above 300ppm the warming caused by each addition of x ppm decreases exponentially, although the exact value of x is uncertain. Therefore CO2 being the cause of a relatively small amount of the past 100 years warming can’t be completely ruled out. There was a paper published recently claiming that if CO2 reaches 560ppm (twice pre industrial levels) the Earth will be 0.2 degrees warmer than it would be if CO2 remained at current levels.
Admittedly this is all a bit arcane and irrelevant as it’s obvious that CO2 wasn’t the main cause of recent warming and adding more isn’t going to make a noticeable difference.
The fact that CO2 absorbs IR cannot reasonably be contested. The greenhouse effect is not an invention of some leftie, it dates back to Arrhenius, the physical chemist, in 1896.
Yes the absorption in the atmosphere is close to saturated, but increasing CO2 still means that IR photons are absorbed nearer the surface, causing the near-surface atmosphere to warm and to be cooler at altitude. As is observed.
It doesn’t help the cause to deny all that. What is more arguable is the climate sensitivity, which is difficult to calculate from first principles and is a derived quantity in most climate models. That is the area which needs questioning.
Wicked= false statements with the intent to frighten.
Hence the waning authority of much of the printed and broadcast media.
Mildest summer I can remember, here in the southeastern US.
In my region the hot days are usually August 10th +or – 2 days.
This year that was delayed a week with two hot days. Otherwise, summer was – well, just an average summer.
The charts for 50 miles south of me are here:
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/climate/temp_graphs.php?stn=KYKM&wfo=pdt
I have to say, this is really a desperate claim. Yet another way of creating alarm when the usual array of temperatures and places don’t give you what you want. Cherry pick your cities, cherry pick her dara, ignore UHI and voila “most Americans”. That this ignores most of America doesn’t matter.
“…ignores most of America…”
The Left only thinks about the place called “most of America” while updating its plans to cleanse it of Christianity and “Trumpism.”
Trump is showing early signs of senility, and Biden, of course, is showing late signs of senility. So I am not quite sure how the Deep State actors will choose the rest of their cast for the farce that will be the 2024 Elections. I do not think they know either!
The DEEP STATE are probably already choosing their 2000 + mules for the next election .
There is already lots of propaganda about a new Pandemic , so that they came bring in another lockdown to stop ” In Person ” voting like the last time .
“…to stop “In Person” voting like the last time.”
Actually, it was reduced, not stopped; 54% of voters say they voted in person. But only 27% did it on the day.
Obviously, a return to “normal” voting – where you have to show up on Election day with good ID – would work better, to the extent that only committed and concerned (and alive!) voters would be counted.
The main point in which 2024 will (probably) differ from 2020 is that the owners of Biden will not have Covid-19 as an excuse for hiding him. Where it will not differ is that one-third of Americans will not notice or care that they are voting for a husk of a man.
There are constant attempts to re-ignite the “Pandemic Terror,”
a yearning desire for a perpetual medical war of some kind; but, without an actual, world-wide, disease they will hardly succeed.
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OTT
The Antarctic ozone hole which appears every (Southern) Spring is as big as ever, thirty years after the World completely stopped putting CFCs into the atmosphere.
https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Makes one wonder whether it’s rather abrupt appearance, some forty years ago, was simply another natural phenomenon.
I did wonder what had happened to the hole in the ozone layer.
Yes
“For public consumption it is usually stated that the Ozone hole was first discovered in 1985, by British scientists Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin of the British Antarctic Survey, although NASA stake a claim for two years earlier. However on the BAS website it states that they have been monitoring ozone in the Antarctic since 1956. One wonders why, in all that time, they found no problem, when CFC’s had been in use for refrigeration since the 1930’s. Suddenly, in 1985, it was discovered for the first time.”
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR – CFC’S AND THE UN
Click to access another_day_another_dollar_cfcs_and_the_un.pdf
NASA Ozone Watch website effectively shows year zero (no “hole”), as 1979: https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/statistics/annual_data.html
Since around 1996, there has been little trend in either direction for both the measurements and the area of the hole.
Their measurement for Sept through October 2022 of 112.5 DU is little different from an observation made in the spring of 1958 at the French Antarctic Observatory at Dumont d’Urville [opposite side of the South Pole from Halley Bay], when Rigaud and Leroy [quoted in Annales Geophysicae (November, 1990)] reported atmospheric ozone levels as low as 110 DU. Sixty five years and little change, yet the whole Montreal Protocol apparatus and all the costs involved, all the billions siphoned off, is a strong parallel for AGW and Net Zero.
“If you tell a lie often enough, most people believe it”
Repetition of false mantras is the daily feed from the media. BBC news the other day: “rapidly changing seasons due to climate change”. There are the ubiquitous phrases, such as “As the planet warms”, “In a warming world”, “ever increasing evidence of climate change”, without providing any. Words such as “irrevocable change”, unprecedented temperatures” and many more that everyone can think of. The latest from the Chief Boiler at the UN is “Humanity has opened the Gates of Hell”.
It seems to me that there has been a recent shift in alarmist reporting, from articles that are sort of true but highly misleading, to articles that are just flat out lies.
Desperate times require desperate measures….and these Ultra Far Left Woke Globalist B’stards don’t give 2 hoots as long as their taxpayer funded stipend comes in at the end of the month…
The “made more likely because of climate change” or simply “because of climate change” mantras are now everywhere and NEVER qualified. This claim is based on the absurd empirical date free nonsense which is climate attribution. Notice how the word weasels rarely admit to that.
Notice also that strangely they never mention Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) any more. This is deliberate. Previously that suggested to anyone with more than three active braincells that there was warming other than that “claimed” by the Arts graduate pseudoscientists to be made by man. That had to be changed so under instructions from their puppet masters in the shadows, the BBC, Grauniad et al quietly dropped reference to AGW and there you are. There has been a deliberate and cynical ploy to quietly forget about natural warmin and through lying by omission our media lead Joe Public to the conclusion that all warming is man made. This is planned and this is deliberate.
Also like their far lefty brothers/sisters/things in Democrat Party in the US, the word weasels of the Climate Industrial Complex have happened upon the shocking realization that there are no adverse consequences to openly lying to the public. In fact, the consequences are only positive because more and more people become “beliefists”. So making claims which are not only factually wrong but known to be so is now par for the course. This creates work for the likes of Paul who is met with a barrage of timewasting obfuscation at the public expense when he points out to the BBC that their claims are factually not only unsubstantiated but wrong. This is quite deliberate to waste time and get him and other stalwarts to just give up.