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[Diogenes]

Climate alarmists claim that summers in the U.S. are becoming more extreme.

But, what they intentionally don't tell you is that the average number of days per year reaching ≥95°F (≥35°C) have 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 since 1895.

In fact, hot days were ~18% less frequent in the 60-year period 1961-2020 than during 1901-1960.

If summers were more extreme today, this number would be increasing over the entire period of record, but they're not.

The attempt of a rebuttal to this point is that “The U.S. covers <2% of global land area. Stop cherry-picking!”

Of course, this comes from the same individuals who blame every heatwave somewhere on climate change and act hysterical when it reaches 100° in D.C. in July.

 

[Diogenes]

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[Diogenes]

 

[Diogenes]

On this date in 1931, Boston reached a record high of 74°.

This was the 2nd of 5 consecutive records (the first 4 of which still stand) set that week.

The highs were 74°, 74°, 77°, 72° and 68°.

Democrats want you to believe that if Herbert Hoover had signed a carbon tax into law, this could’ve been avoided.

 

[Diogenes]

 

[Diogenes]

Did you know?


1. 38 (76% of) U.S. states set their “all-time” high temperature records before 1955.
2. 46 (92% of) U.S. states set their “all-time” high temperature records at least 30 years ago.

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Now you know. Pass it on.

 

[Lionfish]

Summed up, the climate always changes.

 

[Diogenes]

Summed up, the climate always changes.

And sometimes, it causes extinction. There's no evidence that mankind is able to initiate or halt climate change.

 

[Bigdog]

Yep, CO2 has been so low we've been on the verge of plant extinction.

Mother Gaia created man to fix that.

 

[Diogenes]

Kooky Klimate Kultists:

While tornado reports have nearly doubled over the last 70 years, that does not mean that tornadoes have become stronger or more frequent.

According to NOAA, here has been no measurable increase in annual F/EF1-5 tornadoes in the U.S. since real-time data collection began in 1954.

In fact, the number of strong-to-violent F/EF3+ tornadoes has decreased by >45% since 1960.

Any increase in reporting has been driven almost entirely by increased reporting of weaker tornadoes (see below).

It's not climate-related.

The increase was gradual, albeit steady between 1954 and the early 1990s due to rural population growth, which inevitably led to more spotter reports (e.g., Kunkel et al., 2013 and Tippett et al., 2015).

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/94/4/bams-d-11-00262.1.xml

Climate and Hazardous Convective Weather - Current Climate Change Reports

Substantial progress has been made recently relating the large-scale climate system and hazardous convective weather (HCW; tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind), particularly over the USA where there are large societal impacts and a long observational record. Despite observational data...

link.springer.com

The supposed "increase" that is observed after the early 1990s is accredited to the widespread installation and operational use of NEXRAD WSR-88D Doppler radar, which greatly improved tornado detection capabilities (e.g., Verbout et al., 2006).

Evolution of the U.S. Tornado Database: 1954–2003

Abstract Over the last 50 yr, the number of tornadoes reported in the United States has doubled from about 600 per year in the 1950s to around 1200 in the 2000s. This doubling is likely not related to meteorological causes alone. To account for this increase a simple least squares linear...

journals.ametsoc.org

 

[Diogenes]

 

[ADreamOfLiberty]

Gota love that carboniferous (If you're a plant).

 

[Diogenes]

Gotta love that carboniferous (If you're a plant).

I've heard that we are the carbon they want to reduce.

 

[Diogenes]

The Great Flood of 1916 was caused by a hurricane.

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No SUVs, then. No jet planes.

I wonder what "man-made" climate change could have caused it.