More heated media prepping tomorrow | Watts Up With That?

PRESS ADVISORY: LEADING SCIENTISTS TO DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE, HEAT WAVES AND WILDFIRES

...WHEN: Thursday, June 28, 11 a.m. Eastern Time...

• In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot temperatures has increased 50-fold

Flashback: It's a rule: During cold snaps, the contiguous US is only 1.5 percent of the Earth's surface, and short time periods are meaningless. During warm spells, both US-only data and short time periods *are* meaningful

NASA: So what's happening in the United States may be quite different than what's happening in other areas of the world?

Gavin Schmidt: Yes, especially for short time periods. Keep in mind that that the contiguous United States represents just 1.5 percent of Earth's surface.

As Chris Horner says "US is meaningful, or it isn't. Not US is meaningful if it cooperates."

Terrestrial “Greening” and “Browning” in Time and Space | JunkScience.com

Thus, it can readily be appreciated that the twin evils of the world’s climate alarmists – rising atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and global warming – have actually been what has fueled the last quarter-century’s greening of the earth.

Vestas Crash: Subsidy Cuts Take Wind Out Of Wind Energy | JunkScience.com

Days after scrapping plans to build a new factory in Kent, the world’s biggest wind turbine maker has swung the axe again. The wind sector is under pressure because cash-strapped governments around the world have cut back on subsidies for wind power and utilities are ordering fewer turbines.