This blog article is a supplement to SLB's Cold Winters Created Global Warming, and contains the graphs of temperature records from Hadley Climatic Research Center's hadCRUT3 files that were voluntarily released onto the internet, in late 2009, following the Climategate scandal. These records were supposedly released to show there was nothing to hide and that global warming is indeed occurring. The Cold Winters article shows that there was and is no global warming, but there was selection of 1975 as the starting point for a temperature trend that exploits a statistical quirk of low initial temperatures showing an upward trend in the data. The selection of 1975 coincides with a series of cold winters that skewed the data, nothing more.
These files are for the United States, folder "72" in the data. There are 87 files in the folder, with cities from 42 states. These are posted alphabetically by state, starting from Alabama at the top and ending with Wyoming. One can find a particular state by using a search function. These plots were created by copying the data into Microsoft Excel (TM) spreadsheet, making a chart, and adding a linear least-squares fit trend. The equation of the linear trend line is shown in the upper right on each chart. The wiggly white line is a 12-month moving average of the data. Each chart may be enlarged by clicking on that chart. -- Roger E. Sowell, Esq.
Montgomery, Alabama
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Tucson, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona (note upward trend starting about 1955 from Urban Heat Island effect)
Eureka, California (note the rapid decline starting about 1996)
Fresno, California
Los Angeles, California (note the decline starting in 1984)
San Diego, California
Sacramento, California
San Francisco, California
Grand Junction, Colorado
Washington, D.C.
West Palm Beach, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Key West, Florida
Miami, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Des Moines, Iowa
Boise, Idaho
Pocatello, Idaho
Peoria, Illinois
Evansville, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
South Bend, Indiana
Concordia, Kansas
Dodge City, Kansas
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
Boston, Massachusetts (note the gradual warming from Urban Heat Island effect)
Caribou, Maine
Marquette, Michigan
Duluth, Minnesota (gradual warming since 1904)
International Falls, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Columbia, Missouri
Saint Louis, Missouri
Meridian, Mississippi
Helena, Montana
Asheville, North Carolina
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Bismarck, North Dakota
Norfolk, Nebraska
North Platte, Nebraska
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Clayton, New Mexico
Ely, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada (note the Urban Heat Island effect since 1970)
Reno, Nevada (note the Urban Heat Island effect from 1960)
Winnemucca, Nevada
Buffalo, New York
New York City, New York
Syracuse, New York
Columbus, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Medford, Oregon
Pendleton, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Providence, Rhode Island
Charleston, South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina
Aberdeen, South Dakota
Huron, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Abilene, Texas
Brownsville, Texas
So where is the hockey stick?
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