It’s the Pitts: A State of Confusion
“The weather is almost always something other than normal.” – Andy Rooney.
I guess I’m what the looney left calls a “climate denier” as I don’t believe in man-made climate change. As such, I’m always looking for data to help me prove my point, so I was elated to receive a map of the all-time statewide high temperature readings for every state from my buddy Darol.
The map was made by Chris Martz using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Although the map said it was for “all time,” the earliest statewide high temperature reading I found was for Montana in 1893, when it reached 117 degrees 131 years ago.
If we divide the 131 years we have data by the number of states – telling us how often a state should have reached their highest temperature – we get 2.62 years. This means in the first 24 years of the 21st century, nine states should have set new records for their all-time high temperature.
We’re told over and over again we’re experiencing the hottest temperatures ever recorded, so guess how many states experienced their highest temperature on record in the 21st century.
It wasn’t nine. In fact, it was far less. Only three states reached their highest temperature – Washington in 2021, Colorado in 2019 and South Carolina in 2012. That’s it.
Does this sound like global warming to you? I didn’t think so.
A quick survey of the map indicates many of the states had their highest temperature ever recorded during the “dirty thirties” when there were far fewer cars on the road than there are now. So, fossil fuel burning cars must not be the culprit. Right?
The year 1936 seems to be the most prevalent year in which states had their highest temperatures, and in this year, there were only 128,053,180 people in the U.S – far fewer than the roughly 340 million in the country today.
If man is capable of changing the weather, wouldn’t one think temperatures would be much higher when the population is almost tripled? But this is clearly not the case.
My home state of California achieved its highest temperature ever in Death Valley in 1913, which is also the national record.
The highest temperature ever recorded anyplace on Earth was in Libya, North Africa way back in 1922 when it reached 136 degrees Fahrenheit.
One would think if cow farts caused the global temperature to change, wouldn’t we expect a higher temperature in Texas which has many more cattle than Libya ever did? But the highest temperature ever recorded in Texas was 120 degrees Fahrenheit back in 1936, so cows must not be the culprit.
Hmmm, somehow the theory of man-made global warming is falling apart.
The most dramatic temperature swing ever recorded in America happened one day in January 1943, when South Dakota went from minus four degrees Fahrenheit to 45 degrees Fahrenheit in two minutes. This is a 49-degree Fahrenheit change in 120 seconds.
South Dakota also has the distinction of being the state with the coldest day in February, reported in 1936, at minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. Five months later in July, they had their hottest day on record at 120 degrees.
Now, that’s climate change!
Yet, no one back then was insisting we all drive electric cars and have solar panels on the roof. If the climate change fanatics did a little research, they’d find most of America’s weird weather happened in the distant past, yet no one back then was altering their entire lifestyle because of it.
But I’m not finished debunking the theory of man-made climate change.
The world’s greatest rainfall total occurred in 1966 when nearly 72 inches of rain fell in one 24-hour period.
The five deadliest tornadoes in American history all occurred between 1840 and 1936. People may claim we’re having more cyclones, tornadoes, hail and earthquakes due to man-made climate change, but the facts don’t support this.
The fact is our climate is caused more by the shift of continents, solar activity and something called Milankovich Cycles – whatever that is – than it does our Climate Czar John Kerry has a carbon footprint bigger than Sasquatch with his six houses, 12 cars, two yachts and private jet.
