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Record Cold? Or ALL TIME record cold?
Record highs imply its unusually hot or else they wouldn't be record highs. You used the ALL TIME record high to discredit a record high. Its laughably stupid.
Record Cold? Or ALL TIME record cold?
It TIED a record high from 1902. Yawn.
So record highs aren't an indicator of unusually high temperatures?
Also, just to add proper context
One of the greatest heat waves in North American history peaked on Sunday and Monday, but will still bring some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded to portions of the Western U.S. during the afternoon today. The extraordinary heat wave, caused by an unusually extreme standing wave pattern in the jet stream, brought Earth's highest June temperature ever recorded on Sunday, June 30, when the mercury hit 129.2°F (54.0°C) in Death Valley, California. The only higher temperatures ever recorded on the planet occurred in Death Valley on July 10, 12, and 13, 1913, when readings of 134°F, 130°F, and 131°F were recorded. This 100 year-old record heat wave has many doubters, though, including Mr. Burt, who noted in a 2010 blog post that "The record has been scrutinized perhaps more than any other in the United States. I don't have much more to add to the debate aside from my belief it is most likely not a valid reading when one looks at all the evidence. Normally when Death Valley records its hottest temperatures they occur during region-wide heat waves. On July 10, 1913 the next highest temperatures recorded in southern California (aside from Greenland Ranch) were just 119° at Heber and 118° at Mammoth Tank." If Mr. Burt is correct, then this Sunday's temperature of 129.2°F in Death Valley was the hottest temperature in recorded history on Earth.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
Also, since you love all time record highs so much, I'd like to point out that here in Santa Fe we DID set an all time record high of 102 degrees the previous week. This comes off the heals of just setting that all time high a few years back twice in one year (100 degrees in 2010). There were numerous other all time record highs set across the American southwest through this heat wave as well. So, you can try to discredit the idea of Death Valley being unusually hot but I'm wondering how you plan on doing that for the entire region?
Note, none of this proves AGW (on its own) which makes your intent to discredit it all the more stupid. You're so reactionary its ridiculous.
Lol, Manny. Your own post explains this heat wave.
It gives you a synoptic setting for the heat wave. Has that type of setting been predicted by papers regarding the effects of AGW? Yes. Pretty amazing how it was predicted years ago and now we keep seeing these type of blocks every year.
Has the record heat wave of -12.3 C been broken yet at the south pole?
link: Preliminary Report: Record Temperatures at South Pole (and nearby AWS sites…)
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