Heat Wave: Record-Breaking Temperatures, Or Not …
By Brian Koenig – July 24, 2011
http://brianekoenig.com/
With blistering and sunburn-friendly temperatures sweeping the country last week, the media has gone heat crazy over so-called “record-breaking temperatures” – which according to Bill Maher, and of course Al Gore, is ”proof” of global warming. Indeed, out come the headlines: “90 year-old man dies of heat exhaustion after mowing his lawn, changing his oil, and jogging in the 100 degree heat.”
But according to the National Climactic Data Center, the media’s claims are false:
The news media is saturated with headlines about the “record-breaking” US heat wave over the past week. However, the NOAA database of all-time Max Temperature for the entire US from over 6000 weather stations shows that there were no records broken on July 17, July 18, July 19, or July 20th. A total of 4 stations broke records on July 21, 20 on July 22, and 10 on July 23, 2011, for a grand total of less than 0.4% of stations breaking a temperature record sometime during the past week. More than 99.6% of stations failed to break records sometime over the past week. |
