Lies, damned lies and Green Science

                     

 

News media and green scientists are spinning more fairytales this week, trying to attack mam-made climate change to events going on out west.

Some media are reporting that temperatures have reached 130 degrees, neglecting to point out that this is taking place in Death Valley – historically recognized as one of the two hottest places on the planet.

Other media, which does mention Death Valley, claim that that at 130 degrees it has set a record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth, implying that Global Climate change is to blame.

First of all, the 130 temperatures not the highest recorded in Death Valley – the place reached 134 degrees in 1913. Secondly, Azizia in North Africa holds the record for highest temperature when it reached 136 degrees in 1922.

Death Valley may have set the world record when scientists recorded a temperature of 150 degrees at ground level (one meter above the surface). But this can’t be blamed on global climate change.

Death Valley has always been hot even before climate change science started distorting the numbers.

These and many other statistics were recorded too soon after the manmade climate change period that green freaks are blaming.

Death valley has traditionally been so hot for so long it has set records for heat going back into the 18th century. The place was named by immigrants in the gold rush of 1849 to express the dreadful experience they had in crossing it.

The hottest day recorded there took place on July 19, 1913, at 134 degrees. This record would stand until 1922, when the town of Azizia in Africa recorded 136 degrees, making it the hottest place in a single day on the planet.

Death Valley, however, may hold the record for consistently hot weather, often maxing out in summer at 120 degrees or greater at least ones a month. The mean temperature there in 1929 was 119.5 degrees.

Each month from May to September, the valley records temperatures over 120 degrees for 5 to ten days.

In August 1917, the valley recorded 120 degrees or more for 43 consecutive days.

This was nothing compared to the year before when it recorded 113 consecutive days of 120 degrees or more – none of which can be attributed to manmade climate change.

Even the drought currently ongoing in the west is not unusual. It has occurred up and down the west coast so routinely as to become routine.

The worst drought recorded in the United State occurred in 1930 contributing to what we now call the dust bowl.  This, however, wasn’t unusual except for the fact that the region of the dust bowl had until that point undergone an unusually wet period and returned to it prior state in 1930. There have been several similar large droughts, all reflecting much of what had transpired throughout the 1800s before the period green science blames global warming for.

It is really annoying to find media so irresponsible as to accept the facts they are handed by Green Science when nearly anybody can find the truth with a little research.

 

 

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