{"id":335435,"date":"2024-07-03T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335435"},"modified":"2024-07-03T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:51:03","slug":"temperature-alarmism-wsj-fail-doug-sheridan-corrects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335435","title":{"rendered":"Temperature Alarmism: WSJ Fail (Doug Sheridan corrects)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an election year. The mainstream media (including the news side of the WSJ) is in the tank for climate alarmism, forced energy transformation, and a Biden reelection. Reader Beware!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMillions of Americans Brace for Dangerous Heat Wave, Record-Breaking Temperatures,\u201d wrote Gareth Vipers for the Wall Street Journal <\/em>(June 18, 2024). \u201cTriple-digit temperatures are expected across much of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and New England.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Sheridan graded<\/a> the news article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, after a  news article warned of almost 70 MM people coming under threat of extreme heat in the US Midwest and Northeast, we posted our intention to audit the accuracy of the article and forecast by examinating the actual temps recorded after the fact. Here\u2019s a link <\/a>to that June 18th post. 

Well, last week has come and gone, and we\u2019ve completed the audit. It\u2019s not pretty. While we had hoped it would show reporting and forecasts in 2024 improved over prior years, we were disappointed. Below is a summary of the results of the audit, with temp data per :

\u2014 Only four of 14 weather stations in seven Midwestern and Northeastern states over the five days incurred a single *record* high. Three were highs of 96, 96 and 98 F at Manchester-Boston Regional airport on Jun 18, 19, and 20. Another high was set at Midway Airport in Chicago on the 20th. The remaining highs at all stations averaged just 88.8 F\u2026 almost 9 degrees *below* the average of the stations\u2019 record highs.

\u2014 Notably, four of the 14 stations\u2014Wausau WI, Peoria IL, Mt Pleasant MI, and Greenfield MA\u2014recorded at least one day in which the high didn\u2019t even reach the historical *average* temp for the station. That certainly doesn\u2019t comport with the existence of widespread extreme heat.

\u2014 For the remaining 76 non-record-breaking measurements, the seven large urban stations averaged highs of 90.5 F over the five days, 7.4 degrees below the average of record highs for those same stations. This compares to average recorded highs of 86.3 F for the seven small-town weather stations, a full 10.5 degrees below their average record highs and 4.2 degrees lower than the large urban stations.

\u2014 Remarkably, for three of the five days\u2014the 20th, 21st and 22nd\u2014the average highs across all 14 stations were closer to the historic daily *average* temps than to the record temps for the day.

\u2014 Evidence of a heat-island effect might exist in the data. To wit, across all observations, the seven large urban stations recorded highs 1.1 F above the seven small-town stations in the same seven states. What\u2019s more, no (ie, zero) record highs were recorded in the small towns\u2026 compared to four record highs in the large urban locales. Kinda suspicious, no?

\u2014 Not a single station on a single day (80 observations in all) recorded a temp of \u201ctriple-digits\u201d as the WSJ article warned. Zero!

Conclusion<\/strong>

If we had to hand out a grade for the combined efforts of the WSJ reporting and the underlying forecasts, it would be a D or D-minus. You see, a five-day period in which the average high hits just 88.4 F simply doesn\u2019t justify the \u201cDangerous Heat Wave\u201d piece that was published in the WSJ. Period.

Of course, it\u2019s a long summer, and we\u2019ll post more audits as it heats up. Maybe those will show reported forecasts to be more accurate. Until then, stay tuned\u2026 safe\u2026 and cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an election year. The mainstream media (including the news side of the WSJ) is in the tank for climate alarmism, forced energy transformation, and a Biden reelection. Reader beware!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s an election year. The mainstream media (including the news side of the WSJ) is in the tank for climate alarmism, forced energy transformation, and a Biden reelection. 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