"National Overview-March 2013"
"Climate Highlights-March"
"The March average temperature for the contiguous U.S. was 40.8°F, which was 0.9°F below the 20th century average. This was in stark contrast to temperatures from one year prior when March 2012 was the warmest such month on record for the nation.
2013 marked the coolest March since 2002, when the monthly nationally-averaged temperature was 2.2°F below average."
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Temperatures hot or cold aren't proof of anything at least in terms of climate terror. In global warming theory, the CO2 emissions number is the one that matters and in the US it continues to drop:
US 2012 CO2 emissions dropped 4% from 2011 continuing years long downward trend:
4/8/13, "Carbon-Dioxide Emissions Falling, But Is That Enough?," Dan Lashoff, NRDC, livescience.com
"The official U.S. energy-data keeper, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), recently released full-year data for 2012 that show a nearly 4 percent reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion compared to 2011 levels.
The findings from the report show U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions were at a level 12 percent below the level seen in 2005."...
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US CO2 drop through Sept. 2012:
1/4/13, “An American Triumph: US Carbon Emissions In 2012 Fall 4% & 12% From Peak Level In 2007,” John Hanger.blogspot.com
Through September 2012, carbon emissions were "down every month in 2012, when compared to each of the first 9 months of 2011 and 2010. No other country matches that record.
www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec12_3.pdf/sec12_3.pdf/."
EIA US emissions 1973 through Sept. 2012
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2012 continues trend of US CO2 reduction:
2/7/13, "U.S. Carbon Emissions Dip To 1994 Levels," Russell McLendon, Mother Nature Network via Forbes
"Not since 1994 have U.S. CO2 emissions been as low as they were in 2012, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Output of the heat-trapping gas fell 13 percent in the past five years, putting the country well on its way to meeting President Obama’s target of cutting emissions 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. By the end of last year, U.S. CO2 emissions were already down 10.5 percent from the 2005 baseline....
Coal represented just 18.1 percent of all U.S. power sources in 2012, down from 22.5 percent in 2007."...
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Comment: US CO2 emissions have been plunging for many years and are headed lower. Therefore, even if US temperatures were higher in parts of the US for one year, it can't be said to prove US human-caused global warming terror. The US is only 1.5% of the planet anyway:
6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.…
Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy and potentially game changing at the global level.”...
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News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:
- “Surprising,“
- “little noticed,“
- “dramatic,“
- “stunner,“
- “most people are surprised to learn,“
- “quiet but tremendous progress,”
- “major long term implications,”
- “game changing,”
- “shocker,”
- “huge contrast to the forecast.”
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Of general interest:
NCDC placed a notice on Jan. 2013 about errors in 2012 data:
On 4/16/13 (the date of this post), I happened to look at the "Climate Highlights-January 2013" NCDC page. It carried a notice saying they had found errors in its data from Oct., Nov., and Dec., 2012, as well as Annual 2012 and Global 2012 temperature reports. It went on to say they fixed things on February 14, 2013, recalculated things and nothing changed substantially. Taxpayers have no way of validating either the first set or the corrected set of numbers, so it's just their word. Many sensational climate claims were made about the year 2012 that would necessitate diversion of much more taxpayer money and further slowing of a US economy already many years in a depressed state and more to come. Following is the opening paragraph of the error notice:
"Climate Highlights-January 2013"
The 'notice' below can be expanded at the NCDC site for further details.
"Note: GHCN-M Data Notice"
"An omission in processing a correction algorithm led to some small errors on the Global Historical Climatology Network-Monthly dataset (GHCN-M v3.2.0). This led to small errors in the reported land surface temperatures in the October, November, December and Annual U.S. and global climate reports. On February 14, 2013, NCDC fixed this error in its software, included an additional improvement (described below), and implemented both changes as GHCN-M version 3.2.1. With this update to GHCN-M, the Merged Land and Ocean Surface Temperature dataset also is subsequently revised as MLOST version 3.5.3."
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