Hotest March on record, broke all the records

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It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.

Temperatures in the lower 48 states were 8.6 degrees (4.8 degrees Celsius) above normal for March and 6 degrees (3.3 degrees Celsius) higher than average for the first three months of the year, according to calculations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That far exceeds the old records.

The magnitude of how unusual the year has been in the U.S. has alarmed some meteorologists who have warned about global warming. .......

But the month where the warmth turned especially weird in the United States was March.

Normally, March averages 42.5 degrees (5.8 degrees Celsius) across the country. This year, the average was 51.1 (10.6 degrees Celsius), which is closer to the average for April. Only one other time, in January 2006, was the country as a whole that much hotter than normal for an entire month.

The "icebox of America," International Falls, Minn., saw temperatures in the 70s for five days in March, and there were only three days of below zero temperatures all month.

In March, at least 7,775 weather stations across the nation broke daily high temperature records, and another 7,517 broke records for night-time heat. Combined, that is more high temperature records broken in one month than ever before, Crouch says.

"When you look at what's happened in March this year, it's beyond unbelievable," says Univ. of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver.....


They seem to be falling far more often because of global warming, says NASA top climate scientist James Hansen. In a paper he submitted to the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and posted on a physics research archive, Hansen shows that heat extremes aren't just increasing but happening far more often than scientists thought.

What used to be a 1-in-400 hot temperature record is now a 1 in 10 occurrence, essentially 40 times more likely, says Hansen. The warmth in March is an ideal illustration of this, says Hansen, who also has become an activist in fighting fossil fuels.

Weaver, who reviewed the Hansen paper and called it "one of the most stunning examples of evidence of global warming."
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A whopping 31 consecutive days in all the days in recorded history averages higher than usual temperatures and that's supposed to be strong evidence for some kind of huge global warming problem?
 
Milford Cubicle II said:
A whopping 31 consecutive days in all the days in recorded history averages higher than usual temperatures and that's supposed to be strong evidence for some kind of huge global warming problem?
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It's always enough for Al Gore and his chronies to scheme additional millions out of the american taxpayers. Works fine for them, all the way to the bank.:looser:
 
On April 22, 2010 he issued a complaint in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Canada against the National Post newspaper for falsely reporting that he signed off on manipulated climate change studies.[6]
In 2011, Weaver responded to accusations of falsifying data on climate change by suing Tim Ball, an outspoken skeptic of the issue, for defamation. The lawsuit accuses Ball of saying that Weaver “cheated the Canadian taxpayer by accepting public funding for climate science research although he has little or no knowledge about climate science and is incapable of conducting useful research,” and that he “bribed university students with research funds so they would participate in useless computer modeling studies…” [7]
 
Sounds like a snow job to me.
 
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That was before the East Coast was hit with triple-digit temperatures and before a derecho- an unusually strong, long-lived and large straight-line wind storm- blew through Chicago to Washington. The storm and its aftermath killed more than 20 people and left millions without electricity. Experts say it had energy readings five times that of normal thunderstorms.

Since Jan. 1, the U.S. has set more than 40,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 cold temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through most of last century, the U.S. used to set cold and hot records evenly, but in the first decade of this century America set two hot records for every cold one, says Jerry Meehl, a climate extreme expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This year the ratio is about 7 hot to 1 cold.

So far this year, more than 2.1 million acres have burned in wildfires, more than 113 million people in the U.S. were in areas under extreme heat advisories last Friday, two-thirds of the country is experiencing drought, and earlier in June, deluges flooded Minnesota and Florida.

"This is what global warming looks like at the regional or personal level," says Jonathan Overpeck, professor of geosciences and atmospheric sciences at the Univ. of Arizona. "The extra heat increases the odds of worse heat waves, droughts, storms and wildfire. This is certainly what I and many other climate scientists have been warning about."

Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in fire-charred Colorado, says these are the very record-breaking conditions he warned would happen, but many people wouldn't listen. So it's I told-you-so time, he says.

As recently as March, a special report on extreme events and disasters by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned of "unprecedented extreme weather and climate events." Its lead author, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford Univ., says Monday, "It's really dramatic how many of the patterns that we've talked about as the expression of the extremes are hitting the U.S. right now."
"What we're seeing really is a window into what global warming really looks like," says Princeton Univ. geosciences and international affairs professor Michael Oppenheimer. "It looks like heat. It looks like fires. It looks like this kind of environmental disasters," he says.

That was before the East Coast was hit with triple-digit temperatures and before a derecho- an unusually strong, long-lived and large straight-line wind storm- blew through Chicago to Washington. The storm and its aftermath killed more than 20 people and left millions without electricity. Experts say it had energy readings five times that of normal thunderstorms.

Fueled by the record high heat, this was one of the most powerful of this type of storm in the region in recent history, says research meteorologist Harold Brooks of the National Severe Storm Laboratory in Norman, Okla. Scientists expect "non-tornadic wind events" like this one and other thunderstorms to increase with climate change because of the heat and instability, he says.

Such patterns haven't happened only in the past week or two. The spring and winter in the U.S. were the warmest on record and among the least snowy, setting the stage for the weather extremes to come, scientists say.

Since Jan. 1, the U.S. has set more than 40,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 cold temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through most of last century, the U.S. used to set cold and hot records evenly, but in the first decade of this century America set two hot records for every cold one, says Jerry Meehl, a climate extreme expert at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This year the ratio is about 7 hot to 1 cold. Some computer models say that ratio will hit 20-to-1 by midcentury, Meehl says.
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I dunno - I just hate heat. I'm a cold-Wx critter.

If I owned, I'd have one room fitted out as a proper office for me - well-insulated, and a steady temperature of 45*F. Keep a folding cot in there for the nights where I'm bad-off.

I still remember my first "real" job - bussing tables at Red Lobster. All through high school, I'd average about 90 minutes' sleep a night, with thirty taken as naps in the freezer at work.

Fifteen minutes napping in the freezer to me was more physically restful than 12 hours in my own bed at home anyhow.

As far as "man-induced climate change," I'm inclined to think it's all hogwash. How old is the Earth? How long are the climate cycles we experience? How long have we been keeping data?

Sorry, but until we can show a trend through at least two full climate cycles with human involvement, we just don't have enough of a statistical universe to be meaningful in the first place. It is painfully obvious to me that none of the people who are squawking about data points WRT man-induced climate change/shift have no grounding whatever in statistics.

They do, however, have a good grounding in panic and inciting riots. And, the mouthpieces for the whole movement known sod-all about what they're talking about, and have been proven wrong more than a few times.

Of course, Al Gore is at the front of the movement. I have yet to determine the causal relationship between ManBearPig and climate shift - "I'm super-serial!"
 
Preach it brother. :party:

I'm actually working for www.neoninc.org now. Go figure.

5-90 said:
I dunno - I just hate heat. I'm a cold-Wx critter.

If I owned, I'd have one room fitted out as a proper office for me - well-insulated, and a steady temperature of 45*F. Keep a folding cot in there for the nights where I'm bad-off.

I still remember my first "real" job - bussing tables at Red Lobster. All through high school, I'd average about 90 minutes' sleep a night, with thirty taken as naps in the freezer at work.

Fifteen minutes napping in the freezer to me was more physically restful than 12 hours in my own bed at home anyhow.

As far as "man-induced climate change," I'm inclined to think it's all hogwash. How old is the Earth? How long are the climate cycles we experience? How long have we been keeping data?

Sorry, but until we can show a trend through at least two full climate cycles with human involvement, we just don't have enough of a statistical universe to be meaningful in the first place. It is painfully obvious to me that none of the people who are squawking about data points WRT man-induced climate change/shift have no grounding whatever in statistics.

They do, however, have a good grounding in panic and inciting riots. And, the mouthpieces for the whole movement known sod-all about what they're talking about, and have been proven wrong more than a few times.

Of course, Al Gore is at the front of the movement. I have yet to determine the causal relationship between ManBearPig and climate shift - "I'm super-serial!"
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It isn't hot in CA. And last summer was one fo the most mild in recorded history.

Global climate change is real. Our planet has gone from warm to an ice age many many times in the past. We are now about halfway from the last ice age to the next one. So this must be the peak right?

If you look at the record temps from most places you will see that almost all of the record highs were recorded in the thirtys. Ever heard of the dust bowl? What is happening now is nothing compared to that.

If you look at temps from weather stations that haven't had a drastic increase in population around it the global temps have acutally gone down since the begining of the 20th century. Ever heard of the "urban heat island effect"? If you surround yourself with asphault it is going to get hot, sorry. The best example of this is New York. NYC has gone up something like 12 degrees since 1900. Towns surrounding NYC but in the country have gone down 2 degrees. Hmm.....

During the time of the dinosaurs the CO2 level was 300x's what it is today. Hmm....that must mean the dinosaurs burned fossil fuels right?

Did you hear the new one? The oceans are rising faster on the east coast then the rest of the world. That is like saying the water level is higher on the left side of my glass. It isn't possible. Water is self leveling. It isn't higher on the east coast. How can these people call themselves scientists?

If global warming alarmists had a brain our world would be a much better place.
 
Boatwrench said:
Global Climate change is real.
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"Climate Change/Climate Shift" is real.

The Earth's climate runs up and down in cycles - either 10,000 or 20,000-year cycles, I don't recall.

How much effect we have on that remains to be seen. As I said, until you've accumulated two cycles' worth of data, your statistical universe is meaningless.

I'm not disputing the phenomenon at all. I am disputing the projection of our role in the process (which is probably minimal at best,) and if you want to see what's going on with climate change, the old investigator's maxim applies - "Follow the money."
 
Jon,
The climate change carpetbaggers have turned a natural occurrance into a cottage industry like the 'homeless' situation in this country. Follow the money true that.

The change is real, the boreal forests have been steadily shrinking for 20K years, the oceans have risen over the same period. Man's influenece has been but a blip on the screen.
 
blubullett said:
Did you hear the new one? The oceans are rising faster on the east coast then the rest of the world. That is like saying the water level is higher on the left side of my glass. It isn't possible. Water is self leveling. It isn't higher on the east coast. How can these people call themselves scientists?
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yes water is self leveling, but if you consider the massive volumes of water in the oceans, and the relatively little height difference between them (just a few feet). And it's also not pure water in a small environment. There are differences in gravity across the globe, density due to salt, temperatures, tidal effects, wind, precipitation, ice freezing and melt rates, etc.

The real lie is the fanatics preaching that any and all changes in ocean levels are due to ice melting.

Here you go, yes it shows the East coast higher than the West. By a few inches.
http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/Science/datasources/ssha/
 
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The real lie is the fanatics preaching that any and all changes in ocean levels are due to ice melting.
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So when all those glaciers melted thousands of years ago where do you think all the water went?

This is not the same condition as an ice cube melting in a glass filled to the brim that you learned about in 5th grade science.
 
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