“Before NASA and NOAA start tampering with the data, 2013 is one of the ten coldest years in the US since 1895, and has had the largest year over year decline on record.”
It has been real tiresome, these cold Novembers and Decembers these past few years. At least we haven’t had an ice storm yet. Maybe that’s next, eh?
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: When the feds get around to proclaiming 2013 another “warmest year ever,” remember this: “NOAA will [be] reporting something very different, because they subtract up to 1.7 degrees from older temperatures. Essentially all reported US warming is due to a hockey stick of temperature adjustments, which makes the past appear to be much colder than what the thermometers measured at the time. (They of course do not mention this in their press releases.)”
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
There must be a factor of us all getting older and feeling the cold as well. But indeed last summer was one of the mildest in memory and this winter the coldest.
I always thought Global Warming was bogus. Science is not a popularity contest, and the federals simply aren’t trustworthy.
Global warming is a scientific fact. If it’s not, then why are conservative lobby groups spending up to a billion dollars a year to try and prevent action against it, and promote climate change denial?
I find it most saddening when people think the government has something to do with fabricating the idea of global warming. Scientists developed this hypothesis after looking at data that many people can interpret, but the majority of scientists and rational people “believe” in (You can also not believe in gravity, but that doesn’t make it right. Science isn’t a democracy.)
Scientific papers can retract articles too, if they want. But why haven’t they retracted any climate change articles? It’s because, whether or not you like it, climate change is a fact.
Even if the temperatures were colder this year, scientists can look at data and tell if the climate is getting warmer, by using a wonderful mathematical tool called finding averages. And, global warming shouldn’t be the word to use, as I like climate change, because man-induced climate change causes more extreme temperatures. Summers are hotter, winters are colder, storms are bigger. That’s where we got Hurricane Sandy from.
Silly me, I thought Sandy came from the Caribbean.
Yeah, what’s your point? Is the Caribbean not on the Earth? Every place on earth is affected by climate change, no matter what.
From Wikipedia:
According to NCAR senior climatologist Kevin E. Trenberth, “The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.” Although NOAA meteorologist Martin Hoerling attributes Sandy to “little more than the coincidental alignment of a tropical storm with an extratropical storm”, Trenberth does agree that the storm was caused by “natural variability” but adds that it was “enhanced by global warming”. One factor contributing to the storm’s strength was abnormally warm sea surface temperatures offshore the East Coast of the United States—more than 3 °C (5 °F) above normal, to which global warming had contributed 0.6 °C (1 °F). As the temperature of the atmosphere increases, the capacity to hold water increases, leading to stronger storms and higher rainfall amounts.
As they move north, Atlantic hurricanes typically are forced east and out to sea by the Prevailing Westerlies. In Sandy’s case, this typical pattern was blocked by a ridge of high pressure over Greenland resulting in a negative North Atlantic Oscillation, forming a kink in the jet stream, causing it to double back on itself off the East Coast. Sandy was caught up in this northwesterly flow. The blocking pattern over Greenland also stalled an arctic front which combined with the cyclone. Mark Fischetti of Scientific American said that the jet stream’s unusual shape was caused by the melting of Arctic ice. Trenberth said that while a negative North Atlantic Oscillation and a blocking anticyclone were in place, the null hypothesis remained that this was just the natural variability of weather. Sea level at New York and along the New Jersey coast has increased by nearly a foot over the last hundred years, which contributed to the storm surge. Harvard geologist Daniel P. Schrag calls Hurricane Sandy’s 13-foot storm surge an example of what will, by mid-century, be the “new norm on the Eastern seaboard”
The point, my slow-witted young visitor, is that you need to take your long-winded lectures somewhere else.