The NY Times ran a story yesterday meant to scare everyone and highlight the coming doom….sometime down the road when we’ll all have forgotten about this “climate change” hoax idiocy
If those New England seasons feel far warmer these days than they were 20 years ago, it’s because they are. So are Florida’s, Arizona’s, and Washington State’s.
A new interactive map released by the group Climate Central summarizes the average temperatures of each of the 48 contiguous United States for the last 100 years. By clicking across the country (try it on the map above), you can see that lately, temperatures have been trending up no matter where you live.
But if you look closely, the story is more complicated than a general upswing in temperatures. Some states are warming more quickly than others. And the rate at which they’re warming depends on what time span you’re looking at.
It begs the question “why do some warm faster than others?” Air pollution and deforestation are thrown in the mix, but really, no scientific answers are offered. Here’s the trend since the 1970’s
Everybody panic!!!!! Oh, wait, what’s this
Essentially, almost every state shows .2 degrees Fahrenheit or less warming since 1912. A good chunk show no warming. Are we really supposed to freak out and change our economies and lives, skyrocket our energy and food prices, install a cap and trade system, and give up even more of our money and freedom to the Central Government over point frigging 2 degrees warming over 100 years?
And let’s not forget that the trend has been mostly flatlined since the end of the last big El Nino year of 1998. Despite rising CO2.
