Most of the headlines claiming that any recent year is the ‘Hottest on Record’ are fake news. Fake climate news that is. It’s all spin.
First, the ‘record’ they refer to is the satellite record. The satellite record is 46 years old, beginning around the same time experts promised us a new ice age, falling crop yields, global hunger, peak oil, and nuclear winter. So, the hottest year ever schtick is an ironic turn for a class of people obsessed with pointing out how wrong the Old Testament is about the actual age of the earth.
They love to tell you how backward and ignorant Jews and Christians are while simultaneously crying climate wolf based on a four and one-half decade sample of a climate that is billions of years old.
In 1970 it was colder than normal. If you begin when it is colder than normal, normal is the hottest year on record and above normal, which is not abnormal, becomes a crisis that demands the plunder of private property to enrich government agencies and an army of climate scientist homunculi who parrot narratives, hide declines, change data sets, intimidate doubters, and oppress opposing opinion–with the force of law when they are able.
To people who think history is something that started with the invention of the internet the “hottest year on record” is accurate even if you leave the word “satellite” out. The same applies to people with a religious devotion to the climate narrative, many of whom are on the take to keep the cult’s publicly funded billions pouring in and the scare tactics in bold type above the fold.
The reality is an inconvenient truth.
Tree ring and ice core data give us a picture millions of years into the past, but we only need to look back as far as 1850 for reliable surface temperature records in the US to confound the ‘experts. There isn’t one average that places 2016 or any year in the 21st century as hotter or hottest. In fact, the hotter the average temperate, the further away 2016 gets.
There isn’t one surface data set that places 2016 or any year in the 21st century as hotter or hottest. In fact, the hotter the average US temperature benchmarked, the further away 2016 gets.
And that’s despite urban sprawl overtaking stations and surrounding them with asphalt heat-islands giving them higher than normal daily and average temperatures.
