September 22, 2026
Not So Hot
This from Anthony Watts courtesy of Western Journalism:
Here in The 'Lou the hottest part of this summer just passed; we ha a few days above a hundred. But just a few and that is not at all unusual for September here in semi-tropical Missouri. (The Ozarks should be great skiing country but for the fact it's too wrm for good snow and always has been.) It really wasn't that warm here or anywhere else in the continental U.S. , nor most other places around the globe except for in Europe, which suffered under triple digit hear. Suffered mainly because they got rid of their air conditioners to meet "net zero" stanndards.
I turned the air conditioner off last night.
Watts gives us the skinny:
Meteorologist Chris Martz examined NOAA’s data and found that the reported record was driven largely by unusually warm overnight minimum temperatures rather than record daytime highs.
By average daytime maximum temperature, 2026 does not rank first. The legendary Dust Bowl summer of 1936 remains the hottest.
Martz also points out something largely absent from the news coverage. Although the national average narrowly set a record, only seven of NOAA’s 344 climate divisions recorded their warmest summer on record in 2026.
Those were concentrated almost entirely in the Desert Southwest. During the infamous summer of 1936, more than seven times as many climate divisions experienced record summer heat.
Now, overnight temperatures being warmer IS evidence of carbon dioxide driven climate change; it's exactly what the models predict, much as I hate to admit that. But it's not NECESSARILY caused by that; stuff happens.
And that business about the temperature stations used by NOAA is so, well, NOAAN; they have pulled this sort of thing repeatedly, using just a few stations to make broad pronouncements.
I am sure if you look hard enough you will always find some temperature station giving anomalous readings that give you a record. Flip a coin a hundred times and you will have a streak where it lands on heads five straight times. You can then crow about how you have found a basic principle; quarters land on heads in groups of threes. But it is a bullpoo correlation.
Watts continues
There is another issue that deserves far more attention.
NOAA’s long-term climate record is not based solely on raw thermometer observations. It relies on a homogenized dataset in which temperatures are adjusted to account for changes in station location, observation time, instrumentation, and other factors.
Those adjustments are a legitimate part of climate analysis, but they are also legitimate subjects of scientific debate.
Martz notes that some of NOAA’s adjustments are larger than the 0.4°F margin by which 2026 supposedly surpassed 1936. He also raises concerns that NOAA’s pairwise homogenization algorithm may not fully remove gradual urban heat island influences and could inadvertently spread urban warming into nearby rural stations.
So the whole thing could be bullsquirt; NOAA tampering with the data yet again.
Let us continue:
The United States Climate Reference Network is widely regarded as the nation’s gold standard for surface temperature measurement. Unlike many older weather stations, USCRN sites were specifically built in carefully selected rural locations to avoid contamination from expanding cities, parking lots, buildings, and other artificial heat sources.
The USCRN temperature data record tells a noticeably different story. It shows one exceptionally warm month during March 2026, but the summer months themselves do not stand out as extraordinary compared with the network’s roughly 20-year history.
If the United States truly experienced an unprecedented summer across its highest-quality climate observing network, one might reasonably expect that signal to appear there as well.
But it doesn’t. That discrepancy deserves investigation rather than silence from the media.
Sooo....NOAA, which has been repeatedly caught tampering with the data, says "warmest ever" by a margin slimmer than their adjustments while the United States Climate Reference Network does not show this. Yet the news media trumpets NOAA data and speaks with authority when in fact this is statistically tied with a few of the warmest years AT BEST. The ignore the USCRN data sets entirely.
We live in an Alice in Wonderland world where the Queen offers us a cracker to quench our thirst. It's an endless string of soft lies to convince us we are facing doomsday and hand over our sovereignty to the elites who know what is best for us.
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