Warming trend worries wildlife managers - La Junta, CO - Ag Journal

When asked how concerned his colleagues in other areas of the agriculture department such as agronomy and animal science are about climate change, he said, “It’s not an issue to them at all.”

Steven Smith, a wildlife and fisheries consultant with the Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Okla., who was in the audience, had a slightly different interpretation. He described attitudes toward global warming as “split down the middle” within the wildlife community.

He thinks of it as largely a generational issue.

“My dad and granddad aren’t buying into it, but I’m more open to it,” he said...Some animals, such as coyotes and wolves, deer and caribou, and even armadillos, could actually benefit from warmer temps, according to researchers at the University of Washington.

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Defiling The Past At NOAA | Real Science

The new normal in climate science is to distort climate records from the 1930s.

After recalculating data from last year, the nation’s climatologists are declaring that Oklahoma suffered through the hottest summer ever recorded in the U.S. last year — not Texas as initially announced last fall.

“It doesn’t make me feel any better,” joked Texas rancher Debbie Davis, who lives northwest ofSan Antonio.

In the new tally by the National Climatic Data Center, Oklahoma’s average temperature last summer was 86.9 degrees, while Texas finished with 86.7 degrees. The previous record for the hottest summer was 85.2 degrees set in 1934 — in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma had hottest summer on record

NCDC’s data shows that the Oklahoma City summer of 1934 had 61 days over 100 degrees, compared to only 38 days in 2011.

The graph below shows all 100+ degree days ever recorded at Oklahoma City, which have been on the decline. Nine of Oklahoma City’s ten hottest days occurred before 1960.