{"id":407662,"date":"2025-10-11T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407662"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:01:56","slug":"death-valley-world-record-of-134-deg-f-debunked-in-new-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407662","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley World Record of 134 deg. F Debunked in New Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roy Spencer, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 11th, 2025 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our paper entitled Death Valley Illusion: Evidence Against the 134 Deg. F World Record<\/a><\/em> has been published as an early online release in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The authors are myself, Dr. John Christy, and climatologist and storm chaser Bill Reid<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several meteorologists over the years have questioned the plausibility of the 134 deg. F world record hottest temperature recorded at Greenland Ranch, California, on July 10, 1913, but quantitative evidence has been lacking. We used 100 years of temperatures recorded at higher-elevation (and thus cooler) locations to find a range of temperatures that most likely occurred on that date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer was 120 (+\/-2) deg. F, typical for Death Valley in July, and well below the world record value of 134 deg. F. I have previously blogged<\/a> on the evidence against this value and how and why it might have been recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I remain a skeptic of anthropogenic climate change being a net threat to human health and welfare, unlike some other skeptics I have never considered a temperature on a single day (especially over 100 years ago) as being any kind of evidence related to climate change. We follow the data, which is what we did in this new study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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