AUSTIN, Texas — If this is not dangerous climate change, then this is exactly what dangerous climate change will be like in as little as a decade. What has been happening in Texas, with its unprecedented (in time frames that matter) droughts and wildfires, is exactly what the climate scientists have been warning us about for over 20 years. We have been building up to this point since about the turn of the century, and now ecosystems have tipped over the edge. Climate feedbacks have kicked in hard.
I lived in downtown Austin one summer, while I waited for my house to be completed in Cedar Park. Cedar Park (10 miles away) did not suffer UHI effects, and was much cooler. Nighttime temperatures in Cedar Park were 5-10 degrees cooler.
The closest USHCN station to Austin is at Luling, Texas. It shows that the 1950s were hotter than recent temperatures. Alarmists have to rely on severely tainted data to keep their big lie alive.
Texas August temperatures have been flat since the dawn of USHCN time.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/tx.html
h/t to Marc Morano
This is why I can leave my A/C off and open my windows at night most of the summer, while my city dwelling compatriots run their A/C all day long. My commute to work is 40 miles one way, and just as in Steven’s case the temperature is as much as 10F cooler out here. The city shows warming over the past century, but the nearest staion to my house shows a slight cooling over that same period.
As far as I know there is no ‘Rural Cold Sea’ effect, so it must be UHI.
Oh, come on Steve, give the guy a break…
The trend IS up. At 0.04°F per century. Just think, in 2500 years, the temperature rise might be more than the cyclical amplitude!!!
http://naturalclimate.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/luling-tx-temperature-deconstruction/
Funny how climate change would specifically target Texas
Why doesn’t Kevin O’Neill comment on this type of post?
Why don’t you publish other information that I am reporting instead of just what you think will best deliver your message? Climate scientists have always adjusted urban temperatures for the heat island — always — and algorithms for adjustment today are more robust than anything previous. Even without adjustment, the heat island accounts for such a small portion of the planet that impacts have almost no affect on global temperature. Why do you not trust our climate scientists? We trust other scientists implicitly in all other ways. Menne et al., Homogenization of Temperature Series bia pairwise comparison, Journal of Climate, 2011, Menne et al., The US Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature Data version 2, Bias Adjustment, 2011