About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'...

About That Claim That July 3-4 Were the 'Hottest Days on Record'... - BY RICK MORAN

• The headlines were stark and specific. Reuters claimed, “World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3.”
• Well, “ever recorded” is misleading since the records have only been “recorded” since 1979. But what kind of a headline would that have been?
• At least the BBC was honest about their scare headline: “World’s hottest day since records began.”...

Stephen Milloy, a noted climate change skeptic, performed the necessary lobotomy on the hysterics in the Wall Street Journal.

...supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago...

A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.

Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average...