You could have given up your fossil fueled travel, stopped using an ice maker, turned the AC up to 80, only bought second hand clothes, given up eating meat, and moved into a tiny apartment in a Progressive city, but, no, you had to do you and cause the Earth to burn
California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said.
Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53.33 degrees Celsius) on Sunday at the aptly named Furnace Creek, the National Weather Service said.
The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 at Furnace Creek, said Randy Ceverny of the World Meteorological Organization, the body recognized as keeper of world records. Temperatures at or above 130 F (54.44 C) have only been recorded on Earth a handful of times, mostly in Death Valley.
“With global warming, such temperatures are becoming more and more likely to occur,” Ceverny, the World Meteorological Organization’s records coordinator, said in an email. “Long-term: Global warming is causing higher and more frequent temperature extremes. Short-term: This particular weekend is being driven by a very very strong upper-level ridge of high pressure over the Western U.S.”
More likely! ZOMG! We’re doomed…..wait, what was that part about 1913? When carbon pollution was below the “safe” level of 350ppm? How did that happen? And was it all your fault?
Anyhow, they call it Death Valley for a reason
Heat records are being shattered all over the U.S. South, from California to Florida. But it’s far more than that. It’s worldwide, with devastating heat hitting Europe along with dramatic floods in the U.S. Northeast, India, Japan and China.
First, they told us that El Nino was going to spike temperatures which are already up because we are in a Holocene warm period, so, the cultists are using this as an excuse. Second, floods have always happened. People have very short term memories about this stuff, so, it’s easy for the cult to fearmonger.
A combination of long-term human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is making the world hotter by the decade, with ups and downs year by year. Many of those ups and downs are caused by the natural El Nino and La Nina cycle. An El Nino cycle, the warming of part of the Pacific that changes the world’s weather, adds even more heat to the already rising temperatures.
So what happened in 1913 when we didn’t have all those fossil fueled vehicles and such?
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So 1913 was hotter.
From Mr Teach’s 1913 citation:
Mr Teach: “they” told us that El Nino was going to spike temperatures which are already up
Mr Teach is right as are “they”. If one factors out the La Nina and El Nino contributions, the Earth continues to warm! La Ninas and El Ninos adds to the variability of the record, but it gives the Denier Cult apparent “pauses” they can crow about.
Yeah, cling to those straws.
Need I mention that every Climate Scare story is heavily laden with “may”, “might”, “could” and every other qualifier known to man?
The language of science is heavily laden with may, might, could, suggests etc because science is about probabilities.
You’re not arguing that a hot Death Valley in 1913 invalidates that the Earth is warming now, are you?
1913 was suspect because none of the surrounding areas that normally were close had correspondingly high readings
Of course now it is all over a highly populated southwest dependent on electricity for survival
Here’s hoping that some militia doesn’t blow up the big transmission lines.
And 3billion years ago it was 1000 degrees
Good to see my namesake is also a skeptic. 🙂
That 1913 trump really bugs them, doesn’t it? Anyway, during the same week (8th-14th) back in 1936, 40 states were over 100F and 17 were over 110F. Amazingly, humanity in the US survived…
“Temp”
Facts really bug the Denier Cultists, don’t they?
And yes, there was a US heat wave in the mid 30s!
Yes, and the facts are it was hotter in the 30s, but thanks
The United States was warmest in 1934, that is, until 1998 (strong El Nino). Since 1998 there have been several more US years hotter than 1998.
As you may remember the global mean surface temperature is “global”, not just the United States (2% of the globe’s surface).
Globally the 40s were the warmest until the 1980s. Since the 80s the globe has been warmer than the 40s. (We know, we know, climate scientists fudged the data to make it warmer now). Just like Trump won the election.
The Earth’s Temperature
https://temperature.global/
What is your point?
To those who claim the Earth is “quickly” warming faster than anytime in history without valid citation.
The Earth’s Temperature
https://temperature.global/
Perhaps rather than looking at individual anomalies we should instead look at this macro
Phoenix is also setting records as is Las Vegas
But of course easier to create a straw man (highest recorded temp in death valley) and that bet that to death.
Is it getting hotter fast? Why is this happening?
Yes yes 3.5 billion years ago the earth ess 1000 degrees and we weren’t burning fossil fuels
“It’s getting hotter faster” . Good job, carbon boy- now show us evidence that’s true.
You say it almost every week, so this should be easy for you.
Johnny-you should follow the government’s advice. Stay indoors and pay more taxes..
Oh, wait-they want to screw with your AC, too. Little fascisits…
This is around 15 years old but still accurate.
http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-few-of-reasons-i-dont-believe-in-man.html
Went to a 3 day concert in San Bernardino in late summer of ’82. Got there the day before, it was 114, the next day it was 113, the second and third days it was 110.
40 years later, 2022, maximum recorded temp there was 111.2.
It’s unprecedented though. Temperatures have never increased this quickly! For the love of God, let’s give .gov more money and power while reducing our liberties and creating humanitarian and ecological disasters to rush not ready for market alternative energy sources onto the little people that cost a lot more and can’t possibly replace petroleum and coal!
It’s a crisis!