Siberia: Minus 60 (deg C)? « Climate Audit

Anyway, in the GHCND history for Ojmjakon online here , there hasn't been a minus 60 deg C day in December for 15 years and only one in the past 25 years. There has been only one December temperature at Ojmjakon below 62.5 in the GHCND archive (since 1943) - a reading of -62.8 in 1984.

But according to the forecasts here, a low of minus 60 is forecast tonight and minus 63 tomorrow.

JERRY POURNELLE

Man made Global Warming has to be put well down on the list of problems: a bankrupt America will do nothing to help Save The Earth because it will be able to do nothing. It's getting clearer all the time that Man Made Global Warming and the responses demanded to it are part of a colossal fraud: whether or not Man Made Global Warming is a significant problem, it is very clear that the responses demanded wouldn't do much on their own models. It's energy theater, and that's worse than security theater.

The real question is, how much of this is known to Our Masters? As more and more actual scientists go over to the "we can't prove man made global warming, and we now wonder if we can prove global warming at all: we may be headed for a new Ice Age, and we can't tell", the residual left in the Kyoto Now camp gets louder and more shrill. Most of them are True Believers: they are also dependent for their jobs and/or prestige on the standard Global Warming Hysteria, so they have an incentive to keep shouting for their follies.

Whatever Is The Most Important to You, We Are Cutting That First | Coyote Blog

When your local government is out of money, and wants a tax increase, what do they threaten to cut? In Seattle, it was always emergency services. “Sorry, we are out of money, we have to shut down the fire department and ambulances.” I kid you not — the city probably has a thirty person massage therapist licensing organization and they cut ambulances first. In California it is the parks. “Sorry, we are out of money. To meet our budget, we are going to have to close down our 10 most popular parks that get the most visitation.” The essence of government budgeting brinkmanship is not to cut project 13 when you only have money for 12 projects, but to cut project #1.

I’d Hate to See Winter | Coyote Blog

There is some discussion over at Climate Audit about Ojmjakon, Russia in the context of trying to debug some recent NASA temperature measurement glitches. But I could not get past this data, which really seems a bit nippy for late Autumn...