The official figures are in and September 2023 was nothing special in the United States. Data from the state-of-the-art US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) shows that last month wasn't even close to being the warmest September since the network was established in 2005.   So, yes, by some measures September was the hottest in 150 years worldwide, that was not the case in the USA based on the "gold standard" USCRN.

In the 1990's, there was a great deal of controversy regarding the measurement of temperature in the United States. The National Weather Service switched to electronic thermometers with limited cable lengths. So, too many weather stations looked like this. Of course, an air conditioner blows hot air. Critics, including me, were pointing out that the "warming" may have been an artifact of these poor quality temperature measuring stations. I participated in a survey of these stations and found one in southeast Kansas on a patio with a built-in bar-b-que.  So, NOAA obtained funds from Congress to install a U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) that was intended to demonstrate that temperatures were, indeed, rising. Only one problem: they are not. Below is the entire record of the USCRN since it was installed in 2005. The result is no warming.  Has the world warmed in the past 50 years? Clearly, the answer is yes. But the fact that U.S. temperatures have not risen in 18 year...

You may have seen yesterday's news reports about the sad state of the U.S.'s temperature measuring network. If you missed it, the story is here .  As others have pointed out, NOAA runs a superb temperature and precipitation network that was designed to be state-of-the-art and highly accurate. But, we never hear about the data it produces. Why?  It does not show warming! Its data is below and a link to the U.S. Climate Research Network (USCRN) is here .  When NOAA pitched the USCRN it was based on the premise that it would measure the warming temperatures across the USA. Since there is no warming, its data has been pushed into the background.  I guess one could call the lack of warming an "inconvenient truth."

Yesterday, we received one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) periodic global warming advocacy reminders of how hot they believe U.S. temperatures to be.  Except the superior temperature data does not show September to be particularly hot. For years, NOAA lobbied for the establishment of a gold standard climate sensing network that would not  require the 'adjustments' they do on other data. The gold standard data is below. You'll note there is nothing remarkable about September's temperatures. In fact, there is no net warming in the United States at all since the USCRN network was installed.  NOAA can't have it both ways: Spending many millions of our tax dollars for this "gold standard" (their words) climate network that it ignores when the gold standard data is, shall we say, "inconvenient."