Deniers of manmade global warming choose to take their silly little idea to an utterly absurd degree.
this is particularly true about the donkey deniers who when they see below-average temperatures somewhere say this is evidence negating Earth's observed global warming. As though this could be a proxy for Earth's average surface temperature.
it isn't, but it certainly underscores Bloomberg Opinion writer Liam Denning's observation a few years ago that global warming denial is meant to be stupid.
just briefly, in a world where trend temperatures are rising you would expect to have more heat records set than cool records.
and so it was in the US in July. the following tells the story. It was published overnight in yaleclimateconnections.org and was written by Colorado-based meteorologist Bob Henson.
July Nights In US Warmest On Record
"In its July 2022 national climate roundup, NOAA reported on Monday, August 8, that the monthly average temperature of 76.42 degrees Fahrenheit (24.68 degrees Celsius) across the contiguous United States was the third hottest for any month on record, just behind July 1936 and July 2012.
"It was a top-ten-hottest July for 20 U.S. states in an arc stretching from the Pacific Northwest to the Southern Plains, across the mid-South, and into the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England.
"A preliminary total of 30 U.S. sites recorded all-time highs in July, with another 18 tying their previous all-time highs, according to NOAA’s Daily Weather Records website.
Toasty by day, and still warm by night
"Even more notable, the nationally averaged daily minimum temperatures (63.57°F) were the warmest for any single month in the 128 years of U.S. record keeping, just slightly outpacing 63.55°F from July 2012.
"The 10 months with the warmest average daily lows have all been Julys, and nine of those 10 months have occurred in the last 25 years. Since 1970, July daily lows have warmed by more than 2.5°F, and July daily highs have climbed by about 1.8°F.
"Both theory and observations indicate that a planet being warmed by human-produced greenhouse gases will tend to get more of that warming where and when it’s normally cool: at higher latitudes, during winter, and at night.
"A landmark 1993 study found that daily minima were warming three times faster than daily maxima over the Northern Hemisphere. That conclusion doesn’t mean summer days are immune from human-produced heating, just that the temperature bump at night tends to be even larger.
"As for warm nights, it’s hard to overstate what happened in July 2022 in Galveston, Texas. An astounding 24 out of 31 nights set record-warm minimum temperatures. In the last 13 days of that month, the temperature never dipped below 84°F, and there was an eight-way tie for the warmest night ever observed in July (86°F)."
