Submitted by Tony Heller via RealClimateScience.com,
Climate Central just ran this piece, which the Washington Post picked up on. They claimed the US was “overwhelmingly hot” in 2016, and temperatures have risen 1,5°F since the 19th century.
The U.S. Has Been Overwhelmingly Hot This Year | Climate Central
Sunday March 20 marks the start of austral autumn which means it is goodnight from the South Pole for the next six months. As the sun sets in the South Pole, researchers at NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric Baseline Observatory will not see any light for the next six months. The U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is so cold that even during summer it has few visitors. Extreme cold and high altitude makes the observatory isolated from the outside world. It’s last light at #SouthPole today.
According to recent data by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) CO2 is having very little impact on climate change – according to their own data the earth hasn’t had an increase in warmth for the last 58 years. Realclimatescience.com reports: In their “hottest year ever” press briefing, NOAA included this graph, which stated that they have a 58 year long radiosonde temperature record. But they only showed the last 37 years in the graph. Here is why they are hiding the rest of the data. The earlier data showed as much pre-1979 cooling as the post-1979 warming.
A powerful solar storm is currently hitting the Earth which will make for a spectacular Northern Lights show just before New Year’s Eve. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center said the strong storm may allow the Northern Lights to dip as far south as Oregon and Illinois. Yahoo News reports: NOAA classifies solar storms on a scale of one to five (one being the weakest; five being the most severe).