History of Heat Waves
One year ago, the above chart was on the EPA website. This year, the following charts have replaced it.
I point to the text below the EPA charts.
This figure shows changes in the number of heat waves per year (frequency); the average length of heat waves in days (duration); the number of days between the first and last heat wave of the year (season length); and how hot the heat waves were, compared with the local temperature threshold for defining a heat wave (intensity). These data were analyzed from 1961 to 2021 for 50 large metropolitan areas. The graphs show averages across all 50 metropolitan areas by decade.
EPA, 7/19/2023 | Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves
Data source: NOAA, 20227
Web update: July 2022
Ask yourself, “Why would the EPA, the Joe Biden EPA, the same federal government whose so-called Climate Czar is John Kerry omit the information posted in 2022?”
The infamous Dust Bowl of 1930-1940 was a consequence of a long-term heat wave and ignorance of soil conservation techniques. View the 4-minute video titled History Brief: the Dust Bowl to understand the disastrous Dust Bowl era.
In the United States, there will never be another Dust Bowl event because of soil conservation practices.
My elementary education in the 1950s taught me soil conservation techniques. In the 2000s, I found myself teaching some of those learned techniques to Cuban farmers outside the city of La Palma.
The Cuban farmers used a caribou, a giant ox, to plow their fields. It was easier on the farm hands and the ox to plow downhill. Plowing downhill caused loss of soil nutrients and severe erosion. I pray that knowledge prevails to this day.
What is an urban heat island effect? I refer to my previous EPA quotation, the phrase, “all 50 metropolitan areas.”
The urban heat island effect is a phenomenon whereby cities experience higher air temperatures than the surrounding countryside. This effect can be quite noticeable. On average, cities tend to be 1-7°F warmer during the daytime.1 This difference continues well into the night, during which cities can still be as much as 5°F warmer than the areas around them.1 Scientists refer to areas afflicted by these higher temperatures as urban heat islands.
Masachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Climate Portal, Published April 16, 2021 | Urban Heat Islands
What’s the point?
The metropolitan heat islands do not represent the average temperature of our troposphere, the air in which we live and breathe in the cities. As a former pilot, I can attest to the behavior of a Cessna 172 over greenfields and brownfields. Greenfields reflect solar heat; brownfields absorb solar heat. A greenfield is a land covered with either native green grasses or green crops. A brownfield is a land with either barren soil, dead vegetation, or plowed soil.
The present (2023) heatwave over much of the North American continent is due to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a natural phenomenon.
According to the National Atmospheric and Ocean Administration (NOAA), posted July 13, 2023, “A weak El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern—continued across the tropical Pacific Ocean in July 2023. There’s a 90 percent chance the event will last through Northern Hemisphere winter, but only a 20 percent chance that it will match the strength of the events of 1997-98 and 2015-16.”
In summary, this is not our first rodeo with heat waves, and this is not the last.
Attention: THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY
The actual threat is a false climate emergency that serves the interests of globalists and tyrants to ignore established laws, norms, and common sense to instill fear into a population ignorant of the scientific truths that are excluded from official governmental pronouncements.
The panel of photographs of the Statue of Liberty over many years is one example of the false prophets who engender fear in our people.
Scientia Potentia Est – Knowlege is Power
John White
Rockwall, Texas
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