Of course, you had Warmist Seth Borenstein trotting out the story Ouch July in US was hottest ever in history books, as so many other Warmists did, immediately taking the Warmist propaganda from NOAA without bothering to actually doing any research. Alas, Anthony Watts did the actual journalism, and science, for them
(Watts Up With That) Using the old network, NOAA says the USA Average Temperature for July 2012 is: 77.6°F
Using the NOAA USCRN data, the USA Average Temperature for July 2012 is: 75.5°F
The difference between the old problematic network and new USCRN is 2.1°F cooler.
This puts July 2012, according to the best official climate monitoring network in the USA at 1.9°F below the 77.4°F July 1936 USA average temperature in the NOAA press release today, not a record by any measure.
Anthony also compares real data from the 1930’s to today. Steve Goddard also provides some very interesting data, highlighting that the 1930’s were hotter than today.
And one other thing to consider: even if it is a hot year, that doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation, just that it was…hot. Like happens. Like happened during previous warm periods, which were warmer.
