On Sunday, August 16th the National Weather Service in Las Vegas, Nevada sent out a tweet highlighting a new maximum daily temperature of 130°F in Death Valley:
Predictably, the media jumped on this number with the Los Angeles Times saying “…possibly the highest mercury reading on Earth since 1913.”
Even the Drudge Report got into the act putting the 130°F temperature headline front and center.
While global warming activists are rubbing their hands together in anticipation and glee hoping this will aid their case, what they and the LA Times aren’t telling you is that this is simply “business as usual” for Death Valley.
In fact, back in 1913, over 100 “global warming” years ago, Death Valley’s official weather station at Greenland Ranch hit an all-time record of 134°F and also hit 130°F or higher three times that July:
While climate crusaders would like you to think today’s 130°F temperature is more “proof” of global warming, aka “climate change” induced by fossil fuel use putting more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, the irrefutable fact is that in 1913, CO2 in our atmosphere was about 43% lower than today at 290 parts per million in 1913 compared to the “climate crisis” level of 414 PPM today.
You have to wonder, if current CO2 levels are responsible for record heatwaves today, as climate activists like to claim, how did it produce a still unbroken record temperature of 134°F back in July 1913?
The answer is it didn’t then and didn’t today.
The unbearably hot weather in Death Valley is a combination of a hot regional weather pattern and local factors found nowhere else on Earth, according to the National Park Service:
The depth and shape of Death Valley influence its summer temperatures. The valley is a long, narrow basin 282 feet (86 m) below sea level, yet is walled by high, steep mountain ranges.
The clear, dry air and sparse plant cover allow sunlight to heat the desert surface. Heat radiates back from the rocks and soil, then becomes trapped in the valley’s depths.
Summer nights provide little relief as overnight lows may only dip into the 85°F to 95°F (30°C to 35°C) range. Heated air rises, yet is trapped by the high valley walls, is cooled and recycled back down to the valley floor.
These pockets of descending air are only slightly cooler than the surrounding hot air. As they descend, they are compressed and heated even more by the low elevation air pressure. These moving masses of superheated air blow through the valley creating extremely high temperatures.
So, don’t fret about climate change because Death Valley got hot again, it’s business as usual for the place and not an indicator for global temperatures in any way.
Read more at Climate Realism
Its just about the same lies the M.S. Media all 365 days a year and one extra day for every leap year and liberal rags like the L.A. Times or make that Slime’s or Pravda just spews on the lies to their readers
Daily Record Morristown, New Jersey 13 Sep 2006, Wed Page 2
In 1922, the highest temperature on earth was recorded in El Azizia, Libya, which reached 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
Go figure, hot days in August in the hottest dessert in the world. Who da thunk dat would happen?
Remember also that this time of year the sun is beating down in a very vertical position and is above the horizon for over 14 hours. Also, dry air heats up much more thoroughly than humid air. With dew points as low as the single digits there is practically no evaporational cooling.
It’s not named death valley for nothing!
My Parents spent a few years at China Lake Navel Ordinence Stasting Station which is in about the same area back when they were testing out for Jet Aircraft when they placed the men in those rocket sleds and launched them down the railing their car carried licsensplate add on as their pass into the base it depicted a Rabbit on a rocket tehir summers are pretty hot but my mom told me that it snowed a few times there this was just about between WW II and Korea