As many of you know I began tracking United States record trends on 1/1/2000 (to commemorate the turn of the millennium when everyone else was doing so even though that date was really 1/1/2001). I knew that the first upgrade of the National Center for Environmental Information’s record site also contained vast scores of records […]
Month: April 2017
Earth Day March for Science
No question. I remain horrified by the fact that civil rights style protests are necessary to help sway the general public and perhaps the Trump Administration for the cause of pure science. Scientists should be looked up to as the definitive experts on policy decisions by any government. After all, science has given us practically […]
Roadmap to Recovery…. There is Hope
I promised that my next post would be more positive, so what I will present here is some good news concerning the world’s efforts to stem the worst future effects of climate change. Let’s all think positive, do our part to limit carbon pollution, and trust- I’ll emphasize trust!- experts and those implementing plans. The […]
Streak Dissection
In my last post I showed that the current streak of 28 months of more daily record highs than daily record lows in the National Center for Environmental Information database for the United States was also in association with the latest warmest 12, 24, 36, 48, and 60 month periods going back from March 2017 since 1895 […]
Streaking Past a Tipping Point?
Those that have visited this site know that I am big into meaningful stats. One in association with record high temperatures, and thus climate change, is the current record streak of consecutive months of more daily high records than daily low records reported in the NCEI database. That alarming streak has reached 28 months as of March […]
More March Madness
Though March 2017 across the United States was not as relatively torrid as February, the last month marked by my count a record 28 months in a row of more daily record highs than daily record lows according to the National Center for Environmental Information: Yes, there were plenty of “bracket busters” or minor cold […]
Coal-Rollers…Thought That I Had Seen Everything
Editorial: In life, no matter how long one lives, we discover new, mostly wonderful things…art, writing, books, great natural landscapes, and insightful knowledge. Sometimes we come across something horrible to see, though. While reading I stumbled upon something relatively new from the world of climate change that I thought I would never see and is […]