Flurry of Anecdotes

Turns out 2012 was the warmest year since recording began. Freepers' response is particularly factually bankrupt. No strawmen, no pseudoscience. It's like they don't even convince themselves anymore.

logic101.net totally had a cooler summer where he lives, so fuck the average:

I don’t believe that in WI we even had a 100 degree day last summer.

But then again, facts no longer matter.

wbill remembers how five years ago it was totally hot where he was.

I've surely seen worse heat here, too. Summer of 2007 was blistering hot ....90+ temps from June to October. And there have been plenty of winters where I was prepping to mow the lawn in early February (not going to be this year, I think).

When I was growing up, they called this sort of deviation...."Weather". Truly, there is one born every minute.

Ruy Dias de Bivar digs way back to some hot times in Arizona.

I remember Summer of 1984 when it was around 114 here.

And May 5 1972 when it was 105 in downtown Tulsa, OK.

And Aug 2003 when it got up to 108 and I was working out where there was NO shade for a week.

And hot, hot nights back in the late 1950s and 1960s.

No AC back then.

Revel knows scientists all lie whenever they want.

They are lairs. They have more ways to fudge the results than we can count. Eliminate temp probes in all but city areas. Install fudge factors in programing. Lose inconvenient data sets. And on and on.

itsahoot heard about some bad science once, so he never trusts them ever.

There was something up a while back showing a bunch of reporting stations that were bound to return false readings. I remember one was located very near an air conditioning unit.

Garbage in......