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Those Death Valley temps could be phony

Posted on July 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Those Death Valley temps could be phony

…because the site of the official thermometer is not in accordance with NOAA’s own guidelines.

The guidelines state that such “temperature instruments should be 5 1/2 feet above a grassy surface 100 feet or more from a heat source and away from structures that can affect ventilation.”

Instead, in the federal agency’s own official photograph of the Death Valley thermometer, it appears to be sited on concrete (it obviously is not grass) and within a few feet of a building.

“And yet still the hype is turning into tripe about the 134 at Death Valley…The instrument can be accurate, but if the site is not maintained or the environment changes around it, its more than likely to read warmer!”

Of course it plays in really nicely with the federal hue and cry about global warming, i.e. climate change, i.e. we have to regulate CO2 (read, choke the economy by raising the price of electricity) to save the planet, etc. Which even some climate “scientists” ignore.

Via WeatherBell meterologist Joe D’Aleo.

UPDATE:  More on the thermometer siting scandal (and it sure as hell is a scandal) from climate blogger Watts Up With That.

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Greenland Icecap Melt: Media B.S.

Posted on August 4, 2012 | Comments Off on Greenland Icecap Melt: Media B.S.

The latest example of media ignorance (there are so many) is the reporting of a NASA sat finding that, due to an unusually warm summer, Greenland’s icecap has undergone some melting. The media, ever in search of another “proof” of AGW blew up the melting to “massive” proportions.

WeatherBell’s Dr. Dewpoint (Joe D’Aleo) points out that the “warmth” has been in the 34 degree (F) range and the icecap is two miles thick. “…a 34F day or two is not going to make it vanish overnight. You can see the webcam [above] today [Aug. 1] shows the ice and snow at the summit is intact.”

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Why the AGW religion is bull

Posted on June 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Why the AGW religion is bull

This graph put together from federal data by Dr. Dewpoint (Joe D’Aleo) at Weather Bell shows the hottest continental U.S. decades (1930s, 1950s, 1910s, and 1980s) came well before sales of the carbon-spewing SUVs that are the radical environmentalists’ favorite culprit for “climate change.”

Course what the pols who babble about Anthropocentric (i.e., human-caused) Global Warming really want is more government control over us and the economy and more tax money to hire more leftist bureaucrats, whom you can bet will be doing something other than altering the climate—if that was even possible.

China’s stance on this nonsense is refreshingly bold: “China will take swift counter-measures that could include impounding European aircraft if the EU punishes Chinese airlines for not complying with its scheme to curb carbon emissions, the China Air Transport Association said on Tuesday.”

Even better is the story behind the North Carolina Legislature’s recent rejection of a state commission’s attempt to impose infrastructure and development restrictions on twenty coastal counties over predicted (without, of course, any evidence) sea-level rises of 39-feet by 2100.

UPDATE:  Bigtime BSer John Kerry rails against AGW critics: “Thomas Paine actually described today’s situation very well,” Kerry said. “As America fought for its independence, he said: ‘It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.’”

I agree. So check out Kerry’s mendacity. While Martha Stewart and others have gone to prison for insider-trading, Kerry does it all the time. Search for his name on the Look Inside feature here to see how he used his insider knowledge to increase his fortune from impending Obamacare legislation.

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More rain this week?

Posted on November 21, 2011 | Comments Off on More rain this week?

So says WeatherBELL meteorologist Joe Bastardi (formerly of Accuweather):

“Rain is coming for Round Rock  and surrounding environs in the southern plains  early [this] week and  it’s something that is at a premium in a La Nina winter.  The  area from the Trans Pecos  northeast through  northeast Texas and into Oklahoma and Arkansas  could have widespread  1-2 inch amounts…”

Of course this is similar to the forecasts last week, when we got a mere quarter inch altogether. We’ll have to hope Mr. Bastardi knows better.

Meanwhile his colleague, Dr. Dewpoint (Joe D’Aleo), sketches out the wholly natural and therefore repeating AMO and PMO causes of our ongoing drought:

“We have many Texans reading our blogs and the serious drought has affected their lives. Almost every year, other parts of the world have experienced serious drought.  It is of course most likely in areas that are semi-arid to begin with but sometimes extends into areas where rainfall is normally abundant.“

UPDATE: As of Wednesday, Nov. 23, we’ve had about an inch of rain with more expected Friday-Saturday. No drought-buster, but welcome.

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