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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (758839)	12/20/2013 1:01:07 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578034

Obamacare signups soared this week to an all-time high, making this week the highest on record by a wide margin, scientists say.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (758839)	12/20/2013 1:11:26 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1578034

Killings of US soldiers in Afghanistan soared under Obama, making this the highest on record by a wide margin, records say.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (758839)

12/20/2013 2:34:17 PM

From: Brumar89

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Baloney! That story is based on adjusted temps, not the actual temp measurements.

A few posts on temp adjustments:

Message 29079314

Mildest US Summer In A Century
Posted on August 27, 2013by stevengoddard

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

Message 28308455

See the USHCN adjustments below:

Figure 4. The distribution of GHCN stations in the USA . Blue: 1998-2008 colder than 1930-1940. Red: 1998-2008 warmer than 1930-40 based on unadjusted GHCNdata. The coastal and mountain locations of warm trended stations are visible.

Figure 7. Temperature trends for all grids (48 contiguous states of USA) where then combined, producing a single temperature anomaly dataset here after referred to as“RUTI USA Contiguous 48 states”. This resulting graph shows a remarkable agreement with that published by Hansen 1999 [1]:

Figure 8. The similarity RUTI vs. Hansen 1999 is obvious. Visible differences in 5 year averaged temperatures between Hansen et al. 1999 and RUTI USA, occurs mostly before 1895.

Message 28587446
Raising Arizona
Posted on December 5, 2012

NCDC tells us that Arizona has warmed three degrees since 1950. They accomplished this by adjusting the data upwards and by adding new stations.

The blink comparator above switches between NCDC Arizona temperatures and GHCN HCN Arizona temperatures for all stations which have been active since at least 1920. Note that they cooled 1958 by more than three degrees, and added more than one degree on to 2008.

Message 28863146
NOAA’s measured temperature data shows April has been cooling in the US since 1930.

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

NCDC doesn’t publish raw data, and instead published tampered data which shows a strong warming trend.

Climate at a Glance | Time Series

Note that there are no warnings or disclaimers on that web page indicating that they have reversed the trend by altering the data.

The graph below shows the difference the raw and tampered data. They have progressively adjusted older temperatures downwards, which creates a non-existent warming trend.

Until about ten years ago, NASA, NOAA and CRU all acknowledged that there has been no warming in the US. But that was before they started tampering with the data.

1999

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

- James Hansen

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

February 04, 1989

Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period. Dr. (Phil) Jones said in a telephone interview today that his own results for the 48 states agreed with those findings.

New York Times

The animation below shows how NOAA is now cooling the past – to create the impression of a warming trend.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (758839)	12/20/2013 3:40:48 PM
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Hold your champagne glasses high this holiday season, because the end of 2013 marks the 17th year without global warming. This year has been trying for climate scientists and environmentalists who have been trying hard to explain away the 17-year hiatus in global warming and link “extreme weather” to rising greenhouse gas emissions — despite strong evidence to the contrary. There has been a breakdown in the manmade global warming consensus, and some even argue we are headed for an ice age... Read more: dailycaller.com In honor of the 17th year without global warming, The Daily Caller News Foundation has put together seven setbacks for global warming alarmism. 1) Studies show that the world was warmer than it is today during the Roman Empire and when the Vikings were plundering Europe and North America. In fact, even in the 19th Century, there were discussions surrounding the fact that the Vikings could settle the northernmost reaches of Greenland and North America because there was less ice coverage. 2) During the second week in December, the U.S. saw more than 2000 record low temperatures and record snowfalls, according to the National Weather Service and HamWeather records center. There were 606 record low temperatures, 1,234 low maximum temperatures and 285 record snowfalls across the country. In the meantime there were only 98 high temperature records and 141 high minimum temperature records. 3) Satellite data shows that the polar bears have at least one reason to be happy this year – Arctic sea ice coverage was up 50 percent over last year’s record low coverage. Contrary to Al Gore’s prediction that there would be no polar ice cap by this year, sea ice coverage spanned nearly 2,100 cubic miles by the end of this year’s melting season, up from about 1,400 cubic last year. 4) Global cooling is on the way, according to an increasing number of scientists. German scientists have predicted that based on declining sunspot activity and natural climate oscillation the world will cool over the next century. Temperatures will eventually drop to levels corresponding with the “little ice age” of 1870. 5) Other scientists have also been coming around to the global cooling side of things. The BBC reported that Professor Mike Lockwood of the Reading University predicts that at the current rate of decline in solar activity, another “Little Ice Age” could envelope Northern Europe. 6) The United Nations climate bureaucracy’s latest global warming report was called “hilarious” by a leading scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Richard Lindzen said the UN’s report “has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence” because they continue to proclaim with ever greater certainty that mankind is causing global warming, despite their models continually being wrong. “Their excuse for the absence of warming over the past 17 years is that the heat is hiding in the deep ocean,” Lindzen said. “However, this is simply an admission that the models fail to simulate the exchanges of heat between the surface layers and the deeper oceans.” 7) The Senate testimony of Dr. Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado completely undercut environmentalists and Democrats trying to claim that global warming was causing “extreme weather.” “It is misleading and just plain incorrect to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally,” Pielke said. “It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases.” The other witnesses on the panel did not refute Pielke’s data. Read more: dailycaller.com