Originally posted by mjp2
Sure the 1930's were a freak record for the US. And I gave the stats on how many of the state record highs were set then.
But two things:
1. The US will get another of those natural variability 1/100 year event 1930's heat waves again soon soon enough and with the background warming and higher average temperatures all those 1934 records will be beaten.
2. The globe was not hot in 1934. Quite cool overall. The denial camp love to fixate on the odd US record and ignore everything else. Science doesn't do that.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/1934-hottest-year-on-record.htm
http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/the-10-hottest-global-years-on-record
There was no freak about it! The oceans were much warmer than today and CO2 was much lower, at 340 PPM.
You should read you argument again to see how stupid it sounds. We will get one soon enough?? Should we just add that onto the temperature dataset like a forward projection? Ridiculous.
On every measure the 1930s were hotter, the Palmer Drought Index, the Heatwave Index, and the heat records index, and we have perfect historical records to show it. And Cooky and co can't do a thing about it. So keep battling, CO2 at 300 ppm had much stronger hurricanes, there is a good correlation with less hurricanes and tornadoes with increasing CO2.
