I read more stories last week about how hot it was during the Summer than I did back in 2003 when nearly 15,000 French died of heat.

A nationwide conspiracy to frighten people into taking care in the heat and keeping heat-related deaths to a minimum? That’s a bit much.

Although I have no doubt there are plenty taking asses out there are trying to turn this into some kind of verdict on the climate change discussion, nothing change the fact that scientists do not have enough empirical data on the climate over the centuries to make models that have ANY degree of accuracy.

It’s July. It’s hot. Nothing new.

Good old Geekolinks has video of a waterfall flowing UPWARDS due to hurrican-force winds in Australia, where’s it’s mid-winter right now.  Also Sydney is experiencing monsoon rains.  But they’re used to it…there were record-setting floods during their summer. Ok, I know their toilets empty counterclockwise BUT BACKWARD WATERFALLS?

He’s very fat, so the heat is very tough on  him

He’s fat and alive while skinny Farrah Fawcet is dead. Now, who’s the winner?
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/ 

Meteorologist and Climatologist Rush Limbaugh, would know.

Bring that fat ass to Texas, and I;ll show you some hot weather. You stupid political pig.

I’m in Missouri and it is hot here. Way hotter than normal. It’s also very dry which is uncommon, humidity is usually in the 80% range this time of year. Rush is wrong on this one, the weather is bad this summer.

CENTRAL PARK NY 104 84 7/22/2011
*104 BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 101 SET IN 1957. THIS TIED THE SECOND
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE ON RECORD WHICH WAS SET ON 7/21/1977 AND AUGUST
7 1918. THE ALL TIME HIGHEST TEMPERATURE REMAINS AT 106 WHICH WAS
SET ON 7/9/1936.
*84 BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE.
PREVIOUS RECORD WAS 80 SET IN 1957. THIS ALSO TIED THE ALL TIME
HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE WHICH WAS SET ON 7/15/1995,
8/14/1908 AND 7/7/1908.
CENTRAL PARK NY 100 83 7/23/2011
*100 BROKE THE DAILY RECORD OF 99 SET IN 1991.
*83 BROKE THE DAILY RECORD FOR HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE. PREVIOUS
RECORD WAS 81 SET IN 1978.
OTHER CENTRAL PARK NY CLIMATE STATISTICS:
*AS OF 7/23/2011, CENTRAL PARK NY HAS HAD 10 DAYS OVER 90 DEGREES AND
2 OVER 100 IN THE MONTH OF JULY. FOR 2011…CENTRAL PARK HAS HAD 12
DAYS OVER 90 DEGREES AND 1 OVER 100. THE TOP NUMBER OF 90 DEGREES
DAY FOR JULY IS 20 WHICH WAS IN 1993. THE TOP NUMBER NUMBER OF 90
DEGREES DAY FOR A YEAR WAS 39 WHICH WAS IN 1993 AND 1991.

Nature Freak knows much about Meteorology.
I love Natural Science.
Rush lies!
Rush is full of batguano!

NYC NWS
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=OKX&product=PNS
Binghamton, NY NWS
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/bgm/pnsbgm.shtml
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1041 PM EDT SUN JUL 24 2011

…MULTIPLE RECORD TEMPERATURES AT BINGHAMTON REGIONAL AIRPORT…

JULY 20TH TO JULY 23RD WAS A RECORD BREAKING PERIOD OF HEAT.
THIS 4 DAY PERIOD WAS THE WARMEST EVER. IT AVERAGED 81.9 DEGREES
WHICH BROKE THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 81.5 DEGREES FROM JULY 8TH TO
11TH AND ALSO JULY 7TH TO 11TH BOTH IN 1988. ALL 4 DAYS HAD HIGHS OF
90 OR GREATER. THIS TIED FOR THIRD THE LONGEST CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF
90 DEGREE DAYS. IN 1953 THERE WAS 8 DAYS OF 90 DEGREES FROM AUGUST
27TH TO SEPTEMBER 4TH. IN 1988 THERE WAS 6 DAYS FROM JULY 5TH TO
10TH.

If Rush Limbaugh is a Climatologist, Nature Freak is the Pope.

[T]he NOAA database of all-time Max Temperature…shows that there were no records broken on July 17, July 18, July 19, or July 20th. A total of 4 stations broke records on July 21, 20 on July 22, and 10 on July 23, 2011.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/24/media-myth-debunked-almost-no-temperature-records-broken-last-weeks-r#ixzz1T9ki5Jol

Wierd libs have to lie, they have to pay homage to their strange pagan earth-worshipping religion. Say hi to Al ………comrade.

You have omitted some data.
BTW there is a difference between an alltime high for the date and an all time high ever recorded period.
Rush and Newsbusters are unethical regarding this story.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/52779/alltime-records-on-the-bubble.aspCity
Actual High Fri.
Old July 22 Rec. High
All-Time Rec. High
New York City
104
101/1957
106/July 7, 1936
Philadelphia
103
100/1957
106/Aug. 7, 1918
Wilmington
102
101/1957
107/Aug. 7, 1918
Baltimore
106
101/1957
107/July 10, 1936
Washington, D.C. (Dulles)
105
98/1998
104/July 16, 1988
Newark
106
101/1957
105/Aug. 9, 2001
Richmond
102
103/1930
107/Aug. 6, 1918
Allentown
104
101/1926
105/July 7, 1981
Harrisburg
103
101/1926
107/July 3, 1966
Scranton
98
98/1955
102/Aug. 7, 1918
Hartford
103
101/1926
102/July 6, 2010
Boston
103
103/1926
104/July 4, 1911
Atlantic City
105
100/1957
106/June 28, 1969

Just because a particular station does not record an “all time high temperature” does not mean a heatwave is not severe. Records in the Northeast go back to the 19th century. Again also there is a difference between a record high for a particular date and a record high for the history of a weather station. Duration is important too, one can have a record heat wave duration wise without a single record high tempurature being broken.
Newsbusters and rush should be ashamed.
This is why learning statistics is important.

So you accuse the National Weather service of making up data? The temperatures we see on the news taken from offical locations at airports and elsewhere is doctored?
You are nuts! You are high!
Weather geeks, check out this site. It has animation!
Record-breaking temperature across the Globe

by Robert Hart and Ryan Maue

http://coolwx.com/record/usamovie.week.php

I think that article is one of the stupidest things I have ever read.  I am a dumber person for having clicked on the link.

The number of current record breaking temperatures as a percentage of the total number of times temperatures have ever been broken is a meaningless statistic.  That’s like saying a current crime rate is not high because if you compare it to the total number of crimes ever committed in the history of mankind, then it’s relatively low.

I propose a new type of index for Rush Limbaugh. It’s called the Bullshit Index. And Limbaugh is off the charts.

You got that right. Limbaugh just broke the all time record. Destroyed it.

Exactly. Thank you. Records in the northeast go back to the 19th century.
Noel Sheppard needs to take an introductory course in Statistics.
I am dumbfounded.
I am logging of. I have work to do.

Did those 15,000 die here in the US, as a result of our heatwave?  I don’t understand how you construct your arguments.

You are a moron. Did you even bother to read this ‘cut and paste” data? What a tool Hahahahahahaha………

You are a moron. Did you even bother to read this ‘cut and paste” data? What a tool Hahahahahahaha………

Rush is right that stations will use dramatized forecasting to lure viewers…He’s wrong in that it isn’t abnormally hot in a lot of the US right now, and he’s wrong that its important to note that the heat index does have a very real effect on people.  His argument also makes an assumption that these heat indices are used in place of actual temperature when comparing climatological data…this is false, though if dew point info is available, heat-index to heat-index comparisons can/should be looked at to from a climatological point of view.  I am boggled that he didn’t call up wind-chill…I mean, its used the same way, and it would allow him a tool to disprove that our burning of billions of gallons of oil every year has absolutely no effect on the weather, or anything.   This is the problem with intellectuals, they believe, and are right, that they don’t fully understand things, so its safest to remain silent.  Their political, social, and business counterparts don’t tend to admit how little they understand, because its about having power over people, not the truth.   It just seems crazy to have to stand-up for common sense.

The liberals are just using their weather changing technology to make things “progressively” hotter.

Boehner certainly knows who is the head of the Republican Party.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) outlined the GOP’s debt-ceiling plan to
conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh on Monday before showing it to
his conference.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173311-boehner-briefed-limbaugh-on-debt-plan

lustbaugh must be having issues on going outside with that fat lard behind i would be worried too – and keep everyone at bay by stating honey is hot in here – please take my temp from my anal i think i going to have a heart attack – we should be so lucky to find a long fat themo to stick in the rear end of this nasty pig ugh!

Its not a lie.  Respecting your environment isn’t a religion.  Saying something is a lie, and then expecting people to go on that based on faith….that sounds more religious.  Go ahead and prove a couple things for me…1)  does Nature Freak’s post use “Heat Index” as its basis, and 2) do you have data that contradicts it.  Lets say it remains 2 degrees below the record daily temp for every day this summer…is that not record heat?  It absolutely is.  Stop and think.  Also, think about what it means to denounce these truths.  To say there is no heat wave…to say that the heat index doesn’t effect people.  You instantly start sweating when you enter a sauna…if it were dry heat it would take much longer…people lose water much faster when they sweat…therefore it may only be 90 degrees on a given day, but if the dew point is 80, you need to take it easy…people can and have died.  Its a real occurrence, with real causes.  Why argue it, and why argue without any respect for the facts?  When the facts disprove you, you say the facts are false, with no proof…I know its hard to admit you are wrong, especially when you are going off of faith in another person…The climatological data is and has been there for anyone to read.

prove it.

I am a weather geek.
I read the data. I have also been paying attention to the heatwave.
How do you disagree with the data I presented? It is straightforward.
These are well respected links.
You are the tool for having a closed mind.
If Rush told you the moon was made of green cheese, you would take him at his word.
Grow up! Think for yourself. You are a waste of my time, troll.

Logic by Noel Sheppard and Rush:
Boston reached 103 on the 22 of July.
The warmest ever recorded in Boston was 104 on July 4, 1926.
An all time record high did not occur. It was one degree off the record.  BTW Records have been kept since the 19th century.
So a heatwave did not occur in Boston.
Only all time record highs count (all time Highs did occur in cities BTW).
Amazing.

Now…now. Don’t confuse Limbaugh with facts. 

Certainly, nobody knows more about frightening and controlling people than Rush. It’s his stock in trade. 

No, the EIB Climatologist would know.

http://www.drroyspencer.com

You are just a geek. Your mind is closed to the”consensus” that global warming is real. Pay attention to the “cold wave” this winter too.

I algore told you that he offsets his BIG carbon footprint with carbon credits he buys from himself and then offsets his BIG tax footprint with the tax deduction, you would believe in it!

Global warming is the church of the liberal. Abortion is it’s sacrament. o’bama is the one to slow the rise of the oceans…

Check this out, geek (and I notice that you have no “Dr” in Nature Freak:  http://www.drroyspencer.com

He only frightens liberals. And Metrosexuals. And the New Castrati. Which are you?

algore. Global Warming became Climate Change. And this summer, it is going to be hotter than it has been ALL-YEAR-LONG. Then winter will change the climate back the coldest that it has been ALL-YEAR-LONG.

“Although alleging people will be controlled through reports on the weather doesn’t seem too “real”. Really Schneider? Tell that to all of the prius commandos saving the environment. Tell that to the volt owners who do no realize electricity comes from burning coal!

There is no alleging here, liberal environmental whackos are totally controlled by weather report scare tactics. Have you ever tried to find a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, or one unbroken egg in a grocery store when the weather geeks predict snow over an inch deep? And when they are wrong, which they very often are here in New England, they blame the “computer models” for lying to them!

Your report here shows your bias in support of weather scare tactics.

“EIB Climatologist”

HAHAHAHA

It’s SUMMER, It’s HOT – Here in the “bad old USKKKA” we lost about 30 People to the Heat Wave (2 In My Building, both Amy Winehouse strength Alcoholic/Junkie Females. In 2003, if my memory hasn’t faltered, France lost about 10-15 thousand senior citizens due to lack of air -conditioning.

It’s SUMMER, It’s HOT – Here in the “bad old USKKKA” we lost about 30 People to the Heat Wave (2 In My Building, both Amy Winehouse strength Alcoholic/Junkie Females. In 2003, if my memory hasn’t faltered, France lost about 10-15 thousand senior citizens due to lack of air -conditioning.

And the reason for that is that in Summer 2003, Iraq bought up much of the available Air-conditioning units in the World as it was the first time Iraqis could buy what they wanted with their own  money – Courtesy U.S. Army and Marines. Never forget that.

Justin -

What it means is that in the clutch the bad old capitalistic USA gets the job done better than the Social Democratic EU.

Wow. Your time in the corps must’ve seen hits to your head several times over to get you in the developmentally disabled state your cognitive functioning is in, as seen in your “eloquent” posts ( not to mention your lack of grammar skills). Time to go back to school!

I never mentioned global warming.Not once.
Get a place of your own rather than living in your mommy’s windowless basement.
Do you know what the word “statistics’ even means?
If you disagree with me, please site weather statistics.Site hard data.
I offered hard data for all to see. And links.
You are an a@@@@yahoo-FCPM7Q4K4JOZXTW6M5FQ4KKVFM:disqus @e
The Marines is better without losers such as yourself.

Roy Spenser is a joke.
Discuss the data I have posted?
Are you scared?

Don’t waist your time with USMC8411Loser troll.

Rush Limbaugh fanboys will not even discuss with me the weather statistics I have posted.
They just call me names.
Rush Limbaugh and his loverboys are hacks.
Meteorologists across America are laughing uncontrollably at Rush.
They know.

Rush Limbaugh fanboys will not even discuss with me the weather statistics I have posted.
They just call me names.
Rush Limbaugh and his loverboys are hacks.
Meteorologists across America are laughing uncontrollably at Rush.
They know.

Are you in the closet USMC8411?
You act like it.

I am amazed.
Limbaugh is a sick man.

That’s the Left for you.  It’s fear, fear, fear 24/7.  People need to turn off the tv except for entertainment purposes.  All I watch is old westerns, TCM, married with children reruns, stuff like that.  The Left just wants to wind people up and scare them into submission to the all powerful nanny state.

Man, there are a high number of people who read headlines and not content. Rush did not say it was not hot, did not say there were no records broken, and for the life of me I cannot grasp how anyone can say he is trying to scare people.  What he is saying is that the hysteria of the media coverage of the heat wave does not square with the numbers. Heat records get broken every summer, likewise winter.  He was pointing out how the data show there were relatively lower amounts of records than the media was screaming about last week.

this was satire btw.

Like Bill Maher… Just an entertainer. But liberals take Rush so seriously! An are threatened by him.

Why? You wouldn’t want to make homosexual slurs would you? Rush doesn’t frighten me, as he frightens you.

That’s the best you’ve got? Gad to see you are intimidated by the posts, and by the screen name.

He also was pointing out the way the media jumps on the bandwagon and hypes weather patterns that have existed for years to scare people, and to get the almighty ratings.

Rush is the Titular head of the GOP and he has decreed:

“The president said he’s giving the Republicans until tomorrow to have the
general outlines of some deal, well, I run the Republican Party, they’ve
said so, so in my role as head of the Republican Party, here it is.  I
am ordering the president to present his spending cuts, not just to the
Republicans in a meeting, but to the American people, in toto, by
tomorrow, while I’m playing golf, by the way.  Finally somebody in our
party’s gonna be playing golf while he’s working, and it’s gonna be me
playing golf.  That’s the official position of Republican Party as of
now.  I’m on the golf course tomorrow.  He will present his spending
cuts to the American people by tomorrow, and I am ordering the Democrats
and Harry Reid to propose a budget in the Senate for the first time in
two and a half years.  And, I am ordering Obama to put Obamacare on the
table and throw Biden out of the negotiations.”

Titular:1. Relating to, having the nature of, or constituting a title.
a. Existing in name only; nominal: the titular head of the family.

Anyone you disagree with is a joke. Yeah, I’m shaking. Your data is a joke

He did speak to the wind chill theory too, but the author here didn’t mention it, therefore the posters here only know what Rush said by what was written to start the thread.
Here is what he actually said:

RUSH: Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, almost no temperature records were broken in last week’s “record-breaking heat”? It is remotely possible because what we got in news reporting last week was a bunch of untruths, was a bunch of lies. “Record breaking,” quote, unquote, “US Heat Wave Breaks Records at Less Than 0.4% of All Stations Reporting Last Week.” I was in Boston. In Boston the heat index was reported to be 110, 112. They weren’t even bothering to report the temperature. I found it. The temperature in Boston on Saturday (or maybe it was Friday) hit 102, one degree short of the record — and do you know when the record of 103 was? 1926!
So the point is, there is almost nothing true in mainstream, Drive-By Media. Everything being reported today is to advance a political agenda of liberalism. Because, of course, “Record-breaking heat may last for weeks! Giant dome over two-thirds of country! No relief in sight! People stealing copper, people stealing air conditioners. It’s never been seen!” All of it lies. Well, the crime reporting probably wasn’t lies, but the temperature? All of it was lies so that on-air doofus TV meteorologist could dutifully follow up with…global warming, and, “How about those deniers?” Media myth debunked: Almost no temperature records broken last week.

Live it, love it, dig it. Whatever it takes.

Schneider attacked Rush, by using the msdnc pundit comments who focused on their own bias.

Look up Heat Index. It is a measurement of how hot it FEELS. It is based on humidity and temperature, and also assumes certain clothing and body weight. That is why Rush is saying it is not a real MEASUREMENT. He is, of course, referring to Global Warming. He is saying the media is reporting the Heat Index in a way to make it seem like this is the hottest summer in a long time. But when you look at TEMPERATURES, it is just a hot summer, not a record breaking hot summer.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/24/media-myth-debunked-almost-no-temperature-records-broken-last-weeks-r

What proof do we have that you are NOT the Pope?

you must be in the only part of Missouri where the humidity is low. It’s been 80+ and in the upper 90′s for almost 2 weeks in St Louis and NE Missouri.
My dad remembers back in the 50′s it was WAY WAY hotter than it’s ever been in the current era. He remembers temps topping 115f in Missouri for two weeks straight. Said it cost him over a hundred rabbits and killed off their entire corn crop in a weekend.
Rush is right. In the past, long before the considerations (or monetary incentives) of climate change, we had hot summers, not so hot summers, and summers that were way hotter than we have now.
And is he said, when those hot summers start happening in December, then worry.
Have you forgotten it was in the 50′s up until mid-May in Missouri this year. That is unseasonable COLD.

So you’ve just proven that the era before the considerations of climate change were just as hot as current temps, even back to the 30′s. I guess we caused retroactive warming that accounts for those records being nearly a century ago?

All weather and natural disasters are “Acts of God.”
Now who can criticize that?

Rush thrives on ratings also.
Kind of make you wonder about his bias.
He just keeps feeding the pigeons at his feet.

You are correct. He is trying to match the meteoric success of Obama on the same chart. Long way to catch up Rush!