Summer Causes Climate Change Hysteria
July 3rd, 2018
Summers in the U.S. are hot. They always have been. Some are hotter than others.Speaking as a PhD meteorologist with 40 years experience, this week’s heat wave is nothing special.
But judging from the
memo released on June 22 by
Public Citizen (a $17 million per year
liberal/progressive consumer rights advocacy group originally formed by Ralph Nader in 1971 and heavily funded by Leftwing billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations), every heat wave must now be viewed as a reminder of human-caused climate change. The memo opines that (believe it or not) the news media have not been very good about linking weather events to climate change, which is leading to complacency among the public
.
The June 22 memo focus was on the excessive heat in New York state, so let’s begin our journey down Hysteria Lane there. The official NOAA average maximum temperatures for every June since 1895 in New York looks like this:
Fig. 1. Average June maximum temperatures in New York state for every year from 1895 through 2017 (Source: NOAA)
The long term trend is not statistically different from zero. June 2018 is not yet available at the
NOAA website, but from what I’ve seen for the global June Climate Forecast System map at
WeatherBell.com, it looks like it was near the long-term (20th Century) average.
The memo also made mention of the widespread record warmth the U.S. experienced in May, 2018. New York had it’s 7th warmest May on record this year, and the long-term linear warming trend there since 1895 is weak (0.22 F/decade) and not statistically different from zero at the 95% confidence level. The May warmth in the U.S. was regional, as expected for weather variations, with much of Canada being exceedingly cold:
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