1913 saw the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in Death Valley. Katherine Hayhoe says this sort of extreme weather is due to your SUV.
Record Temperatures
The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above. Death Valley held the record for the hottest place on earth until 1922.Oddly enough, 1913 was also the year that saw Death Valley’s coldest temperature. On January 8 the temperature dropped to 15°F (-10°C) at Furnace Creek.
Death Valley National Park – Weather and Climate (U.S. National Park Service)
From the BBCs flagship science programme HORIZON
Global Wierding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f893x
“Something weird seems to be happening to our weather – it appears to be getting more extreme.
In the past few years we have shivered through two record-breaking cold winters and parts of the country have experienced intense droughts and torrential floods. It is a pattern that appears to be playing out across the globe. Hurricane chasers are recording bigger storms and in Texas, record-breaking rain has been followed by record-breaking drought.
Horizon follows the scientists who are trying to understand what’s been happening to our weather and investigates if these extremes are a taste of what is to come”
The programme should appear on utube eventually
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+horizon+2012&oq=bbc+horizon&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_l=youtube.1.1.0l10.10469l10469l0l13312l1l1l0l0l0l0l93l93l1l1l0.
It was so funny how the guy from the Met Office explained how the UK had freezing winters lately and we were to expect more of the same in the winters to come. Obviously they recorded the green extremism before the mild winter came.
It was the worst propaganda program the BBC has ever produced, their investment in green funds must be in a desperate situation, when they rolled out such muddled and unconnected observations.
They tried to make the argument about tree rings using a stradivarius violin, tightly packed tree rings were the supposed reason for the great sound. From this the viewer should deduct that cold is good and warmth is bad. Apparently the success of the D day landings was also down to the Met Office.
After tonight’s disgraceful Global Weirding airing the BBC should shut down, they make the North Korean State TV station look like a thriving democracy.
Take a look at this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/climateexperiment/whattheymean/theuk.shtml
Not much mention of cold winters here.