Not as hot as you thought: Temps yet to reach 100 | Houston & Texas News

If Houston can continue to dance just under the century mark for a few more weeks, it will pass as the first summer in more than a decade without a 100-degree day.
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Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, a professor at Texas A&M University, said it's hard to draw any conclusions about climate from this limited data set.

The location of the official temperature sensor has changed from downtown to Hobby Airport to Bush Intercontinental Airport during the last century. The instrumentation has changed, too, and the city has grown up around the airport.

"I'd say urbanization has had a minor effect, maybe a degree or two on the hottest days," he said. "Likewise, Texas temperatures are overall warmer than they were for most of the previous century, contributing another degree or two on most days. Weather randomness also contributes to streaks such as this. So I'd apportion the blame equally among local urbanization, global warming and random luck."

Blacklisted Scientist Challenges Global Warming Orthodoxy | Energy & Environment

Today Hungarian atmospheric physicist Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, says he has found and proven that the IPCC and their experts are wrong in their theory about how the greenhouse effect works. In the process, he has shown that changing CO2 concentrations are not the determining factor the IPCC and other scientists claim.