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By Victoria Cavaliere and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK / MILWAUKEE (Reuters)- A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades - old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.

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Slush Dogs For the first time in the Iditarod's 44 - year history, organizers imported snow for the sled dog race via the Alaska Railroad, as winter and spring temperatures climbed 9 degrees F above average, shattering a decades - old record.

Van Oldenborgh used both modern and early temperature records, as well as sources like tree rings, which can act as a proxy for very old temperatures, to observe Europe's temperature records back to 1500 and determined that 2014 will almost certainly be the warmest year Europe has experienced during the past 500 years.

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

As for the estimate of minimum temperature, this is consistent with new records of sea surface temperatures for that period, and just demonstrates that the notion (old?)

We don't really know the magnitude of that lag as well as Barton implies we do, because it is very challenging to put CO2 records from ice cores on the same timescale as temperature records from those same ice cores, due to the time delay in trapping the atmosphere as the snow is compressed into ice (the ice at any time will always be younger older than the gas bubbles it encloses, and the age difference is inherently uncertain).

«They had done far more extensive and sophisticated analysis of the weather records, confirmed by «proxy» data such as studies of tree rings and measurements of old temperatures that lingered in deep boreholes.»

as to warming in New Zealand see the article by Barry Brill May 15, 2010 The warming that wasn't... «The official archivist of New Zealand's climate records, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), offers top billing to its 147 - year - old national mean temperature series (the «NIWA Seven - station Series» or NSS).

Maybe that was legitimate but, given how the institutions that gather temperature data have twice this year been caught red - handed making poorly justified adjustments to «homogenise» and «in - fill» thermometer records in such a way as to cool down old records and warm up new ones, I have my doubts.

Adjustments are done for many reasons: because there are gaps in the temperature recording stations, because recording stations break, because a new station differs from the old station, because recording stations must be moved, or because the time of day they're read changes, or they shut down because of funding cuts, or the person reading it retires or dies or can't do it as often as they once did, because of urban heat island effects, or because other stations are too close (or toop far) relative to the averge, etc.........

As the worlds» oldest and most scrutinised instrumental temperature record it usefully covers much of the «Little Ice Age» when the most extensive recent glacial advances in the Holocene began, whilst numerous contemporary records make it possible to examine earlier periods in British climatic history.

I'm not familiar with his explanation about how he came to become curious about Stevenson screens and the possibility of temperature record deviations as the result of changing the paint on the boxes from old - fashioned whitewash in a strictly specified formulation to modern, more durable, but more heat - artifact - inducing white latex paint.

* As paleoclimate reconstructions are measured against global instrumental temperature records commencing 1880 they do not find any» hockey stick» effects seen in older temperature records

I know that some climate science / activists aren't «happy» with such mitigants (and often only work on the warming ones rather than the cooling ones), but it's interesting to see how the temperature record is currently reflecting them all being out on the table as we get closer to leaving the lower bound of 95 % confidence on a very expensive climate modeling effort that is hardly very old.

Here, the new results from Cowtan and Way show that during the period 1997 - 2012, instead of a statistically insignificant rise at a rate of 0.05 °C / decade as is contained in the «old» temperature record, the rise becomes a statistically significant 0.12 °C / decade.

As the summer waxed, old temperature records fell all over the Northern hemisphere; in Russia the heatwave would be brutal enough to kill 11,000 people in Moscow alone, and would cost the nation an estimated 7 - 15 billion US dollars.

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