U.S. endures hottest summer since 1936

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Andrew Jones

Skeptics of climate change will have to deal with more evidence contrasting their disbelief.

The U.S. has experienced its hottest summer in 75 years, according to USA Today and the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. This latest summer season, with an average temperature of 74.5 degrees, has also been recorded as the second hottest ever. Only the Dust Bowl year of 1936, at 74.6 degrees, was warmer.

The middle south certainly felt the increased heat more than any other region, with Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico having their hottest summers ever. Texas has also suffered through its driest summer on record, with currently enduring its longest drought since the 1950s.

On the opposite side, Oregon and Washington had their coolest summers in history, while California had its wettest.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/10/u-s-endures-hottest-summer-since-1936/

[msongs]

1. no evidence here, the opening sentence is invalid

two events 75 years apart are pretty much random occurrences. these events will have to occur more often and increasingly closer together to show a trend. Valid evidence may be available, but this is not it.

[dipsydoodle]

2. ditto

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[Uncle Joe]

5. What if you couple the opening sentence with this?

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/nasa-2009-tied-for-2nd-warmest-year-00s-hottest-decade-too.ars

NASA: 2009 tied for 2nd-warmest year, 00s hottest decade too

Would that still be "invalid" or could this signal a "trend?"

[ChandlerJr]

6. Or how about this? Spot a trend?

Fig.2. Reconstructed global temperature over the past 420,000 years based on the Vostok ice core from the Antarctica (Petit et al. 2001). The record spans over four glacial periods and five interglacials, including the present. The horizontal line indicates the modern temperature.

http://www.climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm#GISP2 diagram

[Uncle Joe]

7. Yes the Earth's natural heating and cooling cycles resemble a heartbeat.

Which is why it makes sense not to add additional greenhouse gases to the atmosphere when the planet is heating up on its' own.

[pintobean]

3. Didn't Jones wonder what caused '36 heat?

[ChandlerJr]

4. Heat waves, drought and the Great Recession

It's like Hollywood doing a remake of the Grapes of Wrath.

Wonder when and were WWlll will be fought?