AccuWeather.com News & Blogs: Not Quite 1816

Many comparisons have been made to this summer and the infamous 'Year Without A Summer' back in 1816. And now that the record lows are coming in this morning from the latest arctic invasion from the north, the comparisons are likely to be brought up again.

Where's the heat? July temps fail to hit 90

No city in Iowa has cracked the 90-degree mark for an official high temperature in July, according to State Climatologist Harry Hillaker. Sioux City has come closest, at 89.

Since Iowa weather recordkeeping began in 1872, the state hasn't made it through a July without breaking 90. The lowest July high temperature on record is 92 set in 1915, which was the coolest year on record.

Rainy, cool weather makes tough summer - Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, CA

Former U.S. vice-president and 2000 presidential candidate Al Gore has spoken loudly and often this decade about global warming. Perhaps it wasn't those court proceedings over Florida ballots that cost him the 2000 election but rather losing his home state of Tennessee. The good folks there probably thought then, as many of us do now, that global warming wasn't all that Al Gore said it was. Certainly not with our summers.

Climate change a global scam | BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC

In science, truth does not lie with he who speaks the loudest or draws the biggest crowd. Truth will out. Earth has been cooling for ten years. NASA concludes the sun causes climate change. The Polish Academy denies human effects; the Czechs agree. French and Australian proponents reverse themselves saying, "Beware of ideology subverting evidence." Australia scrapped its carbon tax. New Zealand repealed theirs.

Charles MacKay, "The Extraordinary Delusions and Madness of Crowds" says, "Men go mad in herds and recover slowly, one by one." The world is recovering. It's no accident that our government still pursues the madness, raising energy costs (which affect everything) and hobbling the economy. It is not about controlling climate; it's about controlling the people.

Boyd Peyton