{"id":282196,"date":"2023-10-06T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282196"},"modified":"2023-10-06T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T12:01:18","slug":"this-summer-was-not-even-in-americas-top-10-hottest-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=282196","title":{"rendered":"This Summer Was Not Even in America\u2019s Top 10 Hottest, Say Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mainstream media continue to fall hook, line and sinker for the tempting alarmist bait set by urban heat corruptions. The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0<\/em>said\u00a0a record was set<\/a>\u00a0this year in the U.S. city of Phoenix during a \u201chellishly hot summer\u201d with the most hot days over 110\u00b0F. The BBC\u2019s report on Phoenix took the opportunity to add that heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, \u201cbecause of human-induced climate change<\/a>\u201d. It is often hellishly hot in the desert state of Arizona, and in fact last summer was the warmest in Phoenix going back to 1933. But strip out the heat created in the ever-expanding concrete and tarmacked metropolis, and it turns out the area was only the 11th warmest on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If the record hot summer in Phoenix was due to global warming, as claimed in almost all media, then it would show up at weather stations surrounding the city \u2013 \u201cright?\u201d asks Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). As regular readers will recall, Dr. Spencer and his UAH colleague Professor John Christy have been engaged in a recent project to determine the extent of urban heat corruptions in cities. Dr. Spencer took the official surface temperature data for Sky Harbor Phoenix Airport, shown by the red curve in the graph above, and compared it to all rural stations within 10-100 kms of Phoenix. Spencer concludes that the urban heat island effect was the dominant cause<\/a> of the summer records in Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact the gap between the red and green lines could be larger since Spencer notes that he used rural data from the U.S. weather service NOAA that had been \u2018homogenised\u2019, a controversial process that often leads to rural data being equalised with surrounding areas. According to Spencer, there are unsupportable conclusions being drawn about the supposed role of climate change in the record high temperatures being reported in some U.S. cities. He adds: \u201cCities are hotter than their rural surroundings, and increasingly so, with or without climate change.\u201d This can lead to extra warmth of up to 10\u00b0F, mostly at night, he finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scale of the urban heat corruption is laid out in wider research recently published by Spencer and Christy. They note they are preparing to publish their first paper looking at temperature data across the lower American 48 States with the dramatic conclusion that summer warming between 1895-2023 in U.S. cities has been exaggerated by 100%<\/a>. Across the United States, much of which is rural, the urban heat effect is placed at a significant 24%. The data investigated are taken from version four of NOAA\u2019s Global Historical Climatology Network, which is an important constituent part of global temperature datasets such as the Met Office\u2019s HadCRUT. The subsequent corruption of the global figures used to promote Net Zero is an issue that seems to be of little interest to most media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spencer and Christy calculate the urban heat effect by using satellite maps and data to compute how temperatures change with population density across thousands of closely-spaced pairs of weather stations. Previous\u00a0ongoing reports<\/a>\u00a0on their work have highlighted the heat corruptions at airports, the most startling proving to be Orlando in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The above graph shows that the raw data for the international airport suggested warming of 0.3\u00b0C a decade, but the \u2018de-urbanised\u2019 figure fell to just 0.07\u00b0C. Airport readings are popular among alarmist-minded weather services around the world. In the U.K., the Met Office frequently quotes the temperature at Heathrow, while on July 19th last year, it declared a record high of 40.3\u00b0C halfway down a runway<\/a> in use by three Typhoon fighter jets landing at RAF Coningsby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent U.S. summer was the 13th warmest in the record if adjusted for the effect of urbanisation, says Spencer. The heat was not consistent across the continent, with over a dozen cities in the south said to be in record territory, while milder conditions were found elsewhere. Needless to say, the Guardian<\/em> went into full catastrophe mode, speculating that this could be the \u201cnew normal<\/a>\u201d. Climate scientists say the heat and other extreme weather is in line with three decades of scientific prediction amid humanity\u2019s relentless carbon emissions. \u201cIt might, in fact, be the tip of the iceberg compared with what is to come,\u201d adds the speculation-rich Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a little warmer in parts of the planet at the moment, a mostly natural process probably due in part to the effects of a developing El Ni\u00f1o<\/em> and, possibly, the extra 13% water vapour in the stratosphere due to last year\u2019s Hunga-Tonga<\/a> submarine volcanic eruption. Spencer shows how the heat bait is set and happily swallowed by narrative-driven mainstream media. \u201cA city has record warming, so it must be due to global warming caused by burning fossil fuel,\u201d he explains, \u201cbut what role does climate change have in these recordings at selected cities? Most of what we hear through the media comes from urban reporting stations, or at least airports serving major urban areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or in the U.K., he might have observed, from readings collected at airports with temperature-measuring devices placed only a few metres from powerful after-burning military jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is<\/em> the <\/em>Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em> Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From The Daily Sceptic BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON The mainstream media continue to fall hook, line and sinker for the tempting alarmist bait set by urban heat corruptions. The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0said\u00a0a record was set\u00a0this year in the U.S. city of Phoenix during a \u201chellishly hot summer\u201d with the most hot days over 110\u00b0F. 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