>- Mark Vogan

When I look back at climate history, it’s clear when the warm and cool periods here on earth occured. From the Little Ice Age which ended around 1850, we have seen gradual warming, though in a somewhat up and down manner.

1920 to 1950 WARM PERIODS WHICH DISPLAYED MUCH HOTTER LOCAL AND NATIONAL CONDITIONS THAN ANYTHING SEEN FROM 1980 TO PRESENT.

Then 1950 to 1979 A COLD PERIOD WHICH HAS IN MANY AREAS DISPLAYED THE WORST COLD IN LIVING MEMORY

FROM 1979 TO PRESENT DAY WE HAVE SEEN GENERAL WARMTH WITH MARKED HEAT WAVES BUT ALL WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF A NORMAL WARM PERIOD.

I have looked deeper within warm and cold periods and focused on temperature records and found an interesting correlation in both, when and what records were set both in city and national records. There were some striking surprises however that does in my opinion go against that of what the IPCC and other bodies are preaching about today.

Most heat records were all reached in the LAST WARM PERIOD, NOT CURRENT ONE here on earth.

Check this out.. Period between 1900 and 1950 (Last Warm Period)

34 state records were recorded within this time.

Period between 1979 and Present Day (Current Warm Period)

10 state records set. OVER THREE TIMES MORE STATE RECORDS THAN CURRENT TIMES.

The July of 2006 heat wave pales in comparison to July 1936, the only state that comes close is South Dakota which tied the 120 degree record set in 36 but doesn’t break it. No state in the lower 48 could beat any state record set in the mammoth heat wave of 1936. Yes there have been a selection of new city and state records set within the current warm period but these are isolated events in my opinion and can happen at any period whether the earth is warm or cold.

Though there may be new daily records broken in cities few are experiencing new all-time records despite urban expansion and population which would HELP global warming but is clearly failing to have any real effect on records that stand firm today as we head towards cool once again.

State Cold Records set in the Period between 1850 to 1920 (Cold Period)

14 cold state records set.

Period between 1920 to 1940 (Warmest! Warm Period but with extreme cold winters)

13 warm state records set.

Period between 1950 to 1979 (Last cold period)

10 cold state records set

**Period between 1980 to present (Current Warm Period)

**14 cold state records set

*** Period between 1990 and 2000 (so called warmest decade on record) displayed SEVEN NEW ALL-TIME COLD STATE RECORDS***

***Period between 1990 and 2000 experienced FIVE new all-time state warm records.. More heat waves, less frost and cold? Humm…

When claims of warmest on record come up whether it be land and ocean or just ocean, I be skeptical simply because I am not seeing the results of a warmest ever world in lack of new records being made, plus I don’t see how both land and ocean or ocean could be warmer than it was when these stunning records came about in the past..

What’s greatly interesting is that since 1920, we have seen the most new state records broken for cold in a time of “GLOBAL WARMING” or better understood by true climate history as the Modern Warm Period than during the late 1800s to 1920. Since 1980, we have only seen NINE new state records for heat, where as there has been FOURTEEN new state records for cold! Like the comparison between the warmest July (1936) to second warmest July (2006) these pale in comparison with each other.

When I hear claims of more heat waves and less frost, I struggle with those claims since I pull these stats out of a book here in my office and think well how can that be, especially with the fact that you’d expect more heat records than cold during a warm period but that is certainly not the case here and the decade of the 30s is by far in a league of HEAT all by itself. Sure we have seen some impressive heat over the last 30 or so years but many of those new records is to do with increased population and growth of cities and not a warmer earth, if it was due to a warmer earth we would see more widespread fall of records not isolated ones. Most new records are found across the American West and fewer over the East, why? Well those cities lie in a drier, warmer region and that of course draws more and more people to live there, similar reasoning behind more destruction from hurricanes, isn’t because of increased activity or strength but because there is more in harms way. These cities are growing faster than any other and ever expanding asphalt and concreate means it heats further therefore making it easier to get hotter than before. This combined with oceanic cycles which alter precipitation also can mean a period of drier summers and therefore warmer temperatures also, combine the two and you get new heat records. But the best of it is, even at that, many great cities like New York have gotten nowhere near their old benchmarks for heat that was set back in the 30s yet their growing.

There is no deputing the warmer earth and yes the NET temperature is warm, but perfectly within the relm of natural variability and LOWER than the MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD which was back around 1900 which lasted until 1300 remembering that Greenland was very warm back then and this was during the time when the Vikings settled in a bountiful Greenland climate. Then around 1300 the earth grew colder and the vikings dissapeared, many starving or freezing to death. When looking at the warming from the 1850 departure of the Little Ice Age and the roller coaster warming, cooling up until now, there is absolutely nothing that suggests we are outwith the boundaries of natural variability, we don’t have near as many state heat records between 1980 to 2009 and remarkably we have MORE state cold records since the turn of the current warming period than we did during the cold period from 1950 to 1979 for goodness sakes. We are without a doubt deffinately within that relm of normality when earth’s temperature rises than anything out of the ordinary in terms of “extreme events”. Since the turn to warming in 1980, I feel the heat has been somewhat dissapointing compared to the last warm period. There hasn’t been anything near the severity of heat that was seen back in the 1930s and I for one would have liked to see some real blowtorch heat in places like New York or Boston and perhaps the Plains. As previously menitioned, the West has been impressive with many records broken but as much as those records may be impressive, those are a result of a different set-up than elsewhere in the world since it’s naturally hotter in the desert or steppe than further east and when you have the fastest growing urban centers on earth within a desert, you’ve got to see the records fall there first, right? But anywhere east of the Rockies, though we have seen some localised all-timers fall, the rest has failed!

That brings me to how accurate and truthful are the claims of warmest earth temperatures on record? I personally don’t believe since 2000 or the 1998 peak in earth’s temperature, how we can possibly still be warming to a point never experienced in oh, say 1,000 or more years like NOAA or others are stating? How can global oceans be warmest in 2009 since records began in a year with one of the lowest tropical cyclone numbers globally, less melting of Arctic Sea Ice etc etc.. The whole global warming hysteria is becoming ever more politically driven, a fraudulent way for the government to steel money from an uneducated public.

What proves they can’t be trusted is that they will come up with their results by taking away key meausuring devices that are bias cold, LOL.. You wouldn’t need to do anything of the sort if their claims all along have been correct. Also. I believe like others, that Illinois like Maine new a new cold record or at least TIED it last winter. Two straight mornings that hit -36 with surrounding areas seeing -40 in Iowa and -32 in Dixon, IL it’s very plausible that the reading measured was correct. Of course NOAA allowed the Maine record to stand since they might just be pushed too much with questions and they don’t want that of course.. Two new cold records wouldn’t bode well in this out of the ordinary human induced warming world so they needed to discard the Illinois record threat as malfuctioned equiptment…

All information from Chris Burt’s “Extreme Weather” book.

Thanks for reading.