No, Press Democrat, One Hottest Month Means Nothing in The Scheme of Climate Change
By
Anthony Watts
August 20, 2024
The Press Democrat, the newspaper of record for Santa Rosa California, published an op-ed in the Sunday August 18th edition titled, “Golis: For climate change deniers, the heat is on.”
In addition to the reprehensible reference to climate change skeptics, the article is flat wrong on many counts. The writer, Peter Golis makes the classic mistake of conflating short-term weather timescales with long term climate time scales and then wrongly holding it up as proof of long term climate change.
Here are some of the claims made by Golis in the article:
July was the hottest month in the history of California.
We’re not surprised. July became the month when temperatures in the 80s became a break from the heat, and the morning fog typical of a summer day turned up missing.
“July’s heat was remarkable not only for its sheer intensity … but also for its duration,” wrote UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain on his Weather West blog.
“Temperatures,” he added, “remained extremely elevated for weeks on end and did not substantially cool off at night …”
https://climaterealism.com/2024/08/no-press-democrat-one-hottest-month-means-nothing-in-the-scheme-of-climate-change/
