Heat Wave In SW Could Be Worst Ever

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/29/us/southwest-heat/

102.3 degrees F at Ronald Reagan Park in Anaheim Hills, CA.

91.0 degrees F near Disneyland.

Gross Exaggeration. Study what the climate was during the Medieval Warming period.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

There were vinyards in England and they were growing oats and barley in Greenland.

The Climate Alarmists very conveniently pretend there is no history.

ruveyn

It is hot. I'm in Texas on the eastern edge of this high pressure system. It's 106 right now, was up to a hundred before noon today, and was 97 when I went to bed at eleven last night. Having said this, it's hardly proof of global warming any more than the extreme cold weather last winter was evidence for global cooling. It's supposed to be hot this time of year in this part of the world.

It's down to 89.0 degrees F near Disneyland ... maybe cooler in the shade.

It's the same here. We're expecting a cool front tonight, and temperatures next week will be below average--in the upper eighties and lower nineties. It's hardly the end of the world.

Once again, the media weather-guessers have over-stated the short-term situation.

Fnord, maybe a year ago my Scottish, and science type, sent me some articles on how a school in Britain had tried to shut down debate on global warming. This is hardly the way responsible scientists behave; it's religious zealotry masquerading as science. In science, if one is right it's not because he squelches evidence, but because the evidence supports his contentions. That's not the case here.

Having said this, I'm not going to deny global warming, but only stipulate that the case hasn't been made.

Back in 1920 it reached 130 F. in Death Valley. No one was yelling end of the world back then.

ruveyn

That's right. I understand that California is in something of a drougth right now (actually, we are too). I read recently that tree rings indicate that several thousand years ago that California underwent a 230 year long drougth. We must keep things in perspective.

It's 108º here where I am, in N. Az, approximately 3400' in elevation, predicted to go up to 111º. It hit 114º yesterday for an hour in the middle of the afternoon.

not at all atypical for your neck of the woods.

Here in Middlesex County NJ, it was 84. On June 29. It is summer, you know.

ruveyn

The dry heat is not so bad in SoCal, high 90s in Pasadena, mid-70s in Carlsbad, ahhh, my beloved beach city.

I enjoy the heat, ac, heat, ac, heat, ac cycle of going back and forth between too hot and too cold.

90's here,feels good compare to the last two years.There was a stretch of heat that stayed over the hundreds,the high was 111.But August is still to come.Our temps were the same as the dust bowl years,the hottest summer of my life.It baked the arthritis right out of my neck.
One summer when I was a kid we cooked an egg on a man hole cover.No one was brave enough to eat it.Some time the heat index is higher because of humidity,the other day when it was 90, the index was in the 100's.

In N. California it's been just under 100*F, but also humid, which is unusual. My iPod weather app predicted 97*F and rain today(?! but it didn't; I'm guessing the rain icon is triggered by the humidity measurement with no other considerations).

Rome really liked the wines of Scotland, up to 400. The Black Sea and the Nile freezing over in 700, Vikings coming south for the next few hundred years as their crops would not ripen, then The Little Ice Age, then a warming in 1500 that stalled, and gave us 500 years of stable climate, a first in the geologic record.

It is not like we have a real baseline to measure from, coming out of an ice age, which was proceeded by the warmest period in recent times, sea level 21 foot higher, Florida a reef. The following ice age, sea level 440 foot lower. Recent, last few hundred years, sea level rising a foot in a hundred years.

We still have not broken the 1930s records, much less 1913. We may be in a period as hot as the 1950s.

Everyone should panic and send your money to Inventor@WrongPlanet.