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Guest post by Paul DriessenWeekly, daily, even hourly, we are told that global temperatures are rising, ice caps are melting, and hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods and droughts are all getting more frequent, intense and destructive because of climate change. Not just climate change, of course, but manmade climate change, due to humanity s use of fossil fuels which provide 80% of all the energy that powers America and the world.The claims assume Earth s climate and weather were unchanged and unchanging until recent decades. That presumption is belied of course by multiple glacial and interglacial periods; the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods; the Little Ice Age; the Dust Bowl, Anasazi and Mayan droughts; the Galveston, Texas hurricane of 1900 and Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935; the 1925 Tri-State Tornado; and countless other climate eras and extreme weather events throughout history.But all would be vastly better, we are further misinformed, if the world simply stopped using those fuels, and switched to clean, green, renewable, sustainable wind, solar, biofuel and battery technologies.Climate alarm messages are conveyed repeatedly in classrooms, newspapers, television and radio news programs, social media, movies and other media while contrarian voices and evidence are routinely and vigorously suppressed by an increasingly powerful Big Tech, political and academic Cancel Culture.These messages, and green energy agendas justified by them, are likely to gain far more influence under a Harris-Biden Administration, especially one pushed further and further to the left by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her vocal, often violent progressive allies.In 2016, the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) released its documentary film Climate Hustle. The factual, often hilarious movie featured scientists, weather forecasters and other experts who challenged claims that our cars, factories and farms are causing catastrophic climate. It was featured in 400 U.S. movie theaters, where it made a persuasive case that the climate apocalypse is an overheated environmental con job. Now, this Thursday, September 24, CFACT is releasing Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy. The worldwide streaming event will go live at 8:00 pm local time, in every time zone on Earth, wherever you live.You can get your tickets here to watch the online world premiere with unlimited replay viewing through September 27, in case you miss the opening.For those who missed it or want a refresher, CFACT is also offering a re-broadcast of Climate Hustle 1 for instant viewing. You can get combined tickets for both events here.Climate Hustle 2 is masterfully hosted and narrated by Hollywood s Kevin Sorbo, who played Hercules in the television movie. Like CH1, it features a superb lineup of experts [ including me Roy] who challenge claims of climate tipping points and extreme weather cataclysms. Equally important, they also expose, debunk and demolish the tricks, lies and hidden agendas of global warming and green energy campaigners.CH2 exposes the campaigners and politicians real agendas. Not surprisingly, as Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs demonstrate in their Planet of the Humans documentary, those real agendas are money, power, ideology and control. Especially, control over our energy, economy, industries, living standards and personal choices. The campaigners and politicians also have little regard for the ecological, health and human rights consequences that inevitably accompany the ever-widening adoption of wind, solar, biofuel and battery technologies.Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy hits hard. As CFACT says, Lies will be smashed. Names will be named. Hypocrites unmasked. Grifters defrocked. Would-be tyrants brought low. Accompanying Sorbo is CFACT s and Climate Depot s Marc Morano, who hosted Climate Hustle 1. The journal Nature Communications has called Morano the world s most effective climate communicator. He is also the person climate alarmists most want blacklisted and banned from public discourse.Meteorologist and WattsUpWithThat.com host Anthony Watts says CH2 highlights numerous instances of hypocrisy, financial corruption, media bias, classroom indoctrination, political correctness and other troubling matters surrounding the global warming issue. It offers a true perspective of just how hard the media and climate alarmists are pushing an agenda, and how equally hard climate skeptics are pushing back. Al Gore s Inconvenient Truth presents rhetoric, doom and misinformation. But if you want a practical and sensible view of what is really happening with climate, watch Climate Hustle 2. The Wall Street Journal cites scientist Roger Pielke, Jr., who points out that hurricanes hitting the U.S. have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1900. The Journal also notes that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said it is premature to conclude that human activities and particularly greenhouse gas emissions have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity. And let s not forget the record twelve-year absence of Category 3-5 hurricanes making landfall in the United States. (Was that due to more atmospheric carbon dioxide?)As to tornadoes, a Washington Post article clearly shows that many more violent F4 and F5 tornadoes hit the United States between 1950 and 1985, than during the next 35 years, 1986-2020. Even more amazing, in 2018, for the first year in recorded history, not one violent tornado struck the U.S.Canada s Friends of Science says, once you see Climate Hustle 2, you can t unsee the damage the climate monarchy is doing to every aspect of scientific inquiry, to freedom and to democratic society. CFACT president Craig Rucker says Politicians have abandoned any semblance of scientific reality and are instead regurgitating talking points from radical pressure groups to a media that has little interest in vetting their credibility. In fact, the Cancel Culture is actively suppressing any climate skeptic views.Twitter actively banned Climate Hustle 2 and froze CFACT s Twitter account. On appeal the account was unfrozen, but the ban adversely affected thousands of CFACT Twitter followers.Amazon Prime Video has removed Climate Hustle 1 from its website. CFACT tried to appeal, but Amazon didn t respond. You can watch the trailer, but the actual film is now unavailable in your area. Amazon only lets people buy new DVDs through the film s producer, CDR Communications ($19.95) while also processing fulfillment for third party vendors who sell used DVDs (for over $45).Wikipedia claims Climate Hustle is a 2016 film rejecting the existence and cause of climate change, narrated by climate change denialist Marc Morano and funded by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a free market pressure group funded by the fossil fuel lobby. (CFACT has received no fossil fuel money for over a decade, and got only small amounts before that.)Newspapers, TV and radio news programs, social media sites, schools and other arenas should present all the news and foster open discussion and debate. But many refuse to do so. Instead, they function as thought police, actively and constantly finding and suppressing what you can see, read, hear and say, because it goes against their narratives and the agendas they support.Climate and energy are high on that list. That makes Climate Hustle 1 and 2 especially important this year and makes it essential that every concerned voter and energy user watch and promote this film.Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.Corn crop destroyed east of Cedar Rapids on 10 August 2020 (Matt Rogers).The August 10, 2020 derecho event caused an estimated 40 million acres of nearly-mature corn crop to be significantly damaged or destroyed, mainly in Iowa, but also in portions of Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri.I put together this NASA Terra satellite MODIS imager comparison of the area as imaged on September 2 in both 2014 (a normal crop year) and in 2020, a few weeks after the derecho struck. This date is sufficiently past the event to show areas where the crops are dead and dying. (Click on image if it doesn t animate.)Derecho damage to midwest corn crop as seen by the NASA Terra satellite MODIS imager on September 2, 2020 compared to the same date in 2014. (Click on image to animate).The dashed line in Fig. 1 shows the approximate area where crop damage seems most extensive.What Causes Derechos? How Common are They? Can they Be Predicted?Derechos are severe thunderstorm squall line high wind events that are particularly widespread and long-lived, typically moving rapidly across multiple states. This video taken in Cedar Rapids shows about 25 minutes of very high winds, with occasional gusts taking out trees and tree limbs.Derechos are particularly difficult to predict. For example, the NWS Storms Prediction Center early morning outlook (issued at 7 a.m.) for severe weather showed little indication of unusual severe storm activity prior to the August 10 event.Fig. 2. Storms Prediction Center outlook for severe thunderstorms on 10 August 2020, issued at 7 a.m. CDT.Once the derecho formed over eastern South Dakota and Nebraska, though, the forecast advisory was updated to reflect the high probability that it would persist and move east.Like all severe thunderstorms, we know that derechos require an unstable air mass (usually during summertime), with some wind shear provided by an advancing cool front and upper-level trough to the west. But most of these synoptic situations do not cause derechos to form, and forecasters can t predict one every time such conditions exist or there will be a lot of false alarms.The following plot shows an 18 year climatology of derecho events during May-August of 1996 through 2013 from a 2016 study by Gaustini Bosart. Fig. 3. Climatology of progressive derecho events for the warm season (May–August) of 1996–2013. The number of progressive derechos passing through a given 100 km × 100 km grid box over the 18-yr span is located at the center of the grid box and is plotted for those boxes containing at least one progressive derecho. (From Gaustini Bosart, 2016 Monthly Weather Review ).Note that a farmer in the corn belt will be impacted by maybe one or two derecho events per growing season, depending upon their location, although ones of the severity of the August 10 event are much more rare. Of course there is nothing a farmer can do about such events, even if they were accurately forecast.Given the central placement of derecho activity in the corn belt, I suspect that these events are made somewhat worse by the huge moisture requirements of corn, which leads to very high dewpoints (oftentimes in the low-80s F) when the corn is actively growing and transpiring water. Any extra water vapor is extra fuel for these storms.The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for August, 2020 was +0.43 deg. C, essentially unchanged from the July, 2020 value of +0.44 deg. C.The linear warming trend since January, 1979 remains at +0.14 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).Various regional LT departures from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 20 months are: YEAR MO GLOBE NHEM. SHEM. TROPIC USA48 ARCTIC AUST 2019 01 +0.38 +0.35 +0.41 +0.35 +0.53 -0.14 +1.14 2019 02 +0.37 +0.47 +0.28 +0.43 -0.02 +1.05 +0.05 2019 03 +0.34 +0.44 +0.25 +0.41 -0.55 +0.97 +0.58 2019 04 +0.44 +0.38 +0.51 +0.53 +0.49 +0.93 +0.91 2019 05 +0.32 +0.29 +0.35 +0.39 -0.61 +0.99 +0.38 2019 06 +0.47 +0.42 +0.52 +0.64 -0.64 +0.91 +0.35 2019 07 +0.38 +0.33 +0.44 +0.45 +0.10 +0.34 +0.87 2019 08 +0.38 +0.38 +0.39 +0.42 +0.17 +0.44 +0.23 2019 09 +0.61 +0.64 +0.59 +0.60 +1.14 +0.75 +0.57 2019 10 +0.46 +0.64 +0.27 +0.30 -0.03 +1.00 +0.49 2019 11 +0.55 +0.56 +0.54 +0.55 +0.21 +0.56 +0.37 2019 12 +0.56 +0.61 +0.50 +0.58 +0.92 +0.66 +0.94 2020 01 +0.56 +0.60 +0.53 +0.61 +0.73 +0.12 +0.65 2020 02 +0.75 +0.96 +0.55 +0.76 +0.38 +0.02 +0.30 2020 03 +0.47 +0.61 +0.34 +0.63 +1.09 -0.72 +0.16 2020 04 +0.38 +0.43 +0.33 +0.45 -0.59 +1.03 +0.97 2020 05 +0.54 +0.60 +0.49 +0.66 +0.17 +1.16 -0.15 2020 06 +0.43 +0.45 +0.41 +0.46 +0.38 +0.80 +1.20 2020 07 +0.44 +0.45 +0.42 +0.46 +0.56 +0.40 +0.66 2020 08 +0.43 +0.47 +0.38 +0.59 +0.41 +0.47 +0.49The full UAH Global Temperature Report, along with the LT global gridpoint anomaly image for August, 2020 should be available within the next few days here.The global and regional monthly anomalies for the various atmospheric layers we monitor should be available in the next few days at the following locations:Lower Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txtMid-Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tmt/uahncdc_mt_6.0.txtTropopause: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/ttp/uahncdc_tp_6.0.txtLower Stratosphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tls/uahncdc_ls_6.0.txtAs I write this, it looks like major Hurricane Laura will arrive on the Louisiana coast late tonight as a Category 4 hurricane somewhere south of Lake Charles.Fig. 1. GOES-East Geocolor image of major Hurricane Laura heading toward the southwest Louisiana coast at 9:50 a.m. CDT 26 August 2020.There will be the inevitable fake news coverage claiming how U.S. landfalling hurricanes are getting worse, a subject which I addressed in my Amazon Kindle e-book Inevitable Disaster: Why Hurricanes Can t Be Blamed on Global Warming.Of course, hurricane damage has increased, as people flock to the nation s coasts and associated infrastructure increases. But we should remember that (for example) Miami only had 444 residents when incorporated in 1896, and now the Miami metroplex has over 6,000,000 inhabitants.So, yes, storm damage will increase, but not because the weather has gotten worse.Given the current event, which is sure to bring major damage to southwest Louisiana, I thought I would present the statistics for all documented hurricanes affecting Louisiana in the last 170 years (1851-2020).Neither Hurricane Numbers nor Intensities Have Increased in LouisianaIf we examine all of the hurricanes affecting Louisiana in the last 170 years in the National Hurricane Center s HURDAT database (as summarized on Wikipedia) we find that there has been no long-term increase in either the number of hurricanes or their intensity since 1851.Fig. 2. Neither the number nor intensity of hurricanes impacting Louisiana since 1851 have experienced a long-term increase, assuming major Hurricane Laura (2020) makes landfall as a Cat4 storm. Dashed lines are the linear trends.Again, this is based upon official NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) statistics.The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2020 was +0.44 deg. C, essentially unchanged from the June, 2020 value of +0.43 deg. C.The linear warming trend since January, 1979 remains at +0.14 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).Various regional LT departures from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 19 months are: YEAR MO GLOBE NHEM. SHEM. TROPIC USA48 ARCTIC AUST 2019 01 +0.38 +0.35 +0.41 +0.36 +0.53 -0.14 +1.14 2019 02 +0.37 +0.47 +0.28 +0.43 -0.02 +1.05 +0.05 2019 03 +0.34 +0.44 +0.25 +0.41 -0.55 +0.97 +0.58 2019 04 +0.44 +0.38 +0.51 +0.54 +0.50 +0.93 +0.91 2019 05 +0.32 +0.29 +0.35 +0.39 -0.61 +0.99 +0.38 2019 06 +0.47 +0.42 +0.52 +0.64 -0.64 +0.91 +0.35 2019 07 +0.38 +0.33 +0.44 +0.45 +0.11 +0.34 +0.87 2019 08 +0.39 +0.38 +0.39 +0.42 +0.17 +0.44 +0.23 2019 09 +0.61 +0.64 +0.59 +0.60 +1.14 +0.75 +0.57 2019 10 +0.46 +0.64 +0.27 +0.30 -0.03 +1.00 +0.49 2019 11 +0.55 +0.56 +0.54 +0.55 +0.21 +0.56 +0.37 2019 12 +0.56 +0.61 +0.50 +0.58 +0.92 +0.66 +0.94 2020 01 +0.56 +0.60 +0.53 +0.61 +0.73 +0.13 +0.65 2020 02 +0.76 +0.96 +0.55 +0.76 +0.38 +0.02 +0.30 2020 03 +0.48 +0.61 +0.34 +0.63 +1.09 -0.72 +0.16 2020 04 +0.38 +0.43 +0.33 +0.45 -0.59 +1.03 +0.97 2020 05 +0.54 +0.60 +0.49 +0.66 +0.17 +1.16 -0.15 2020 06 +0.43 +0.45 +0.41 +0.46 +0.38 +0.80 +1.20 2020 07 +0.44 +0.45 +0.42 +0.46 +0.56 +0.40 +0.66The full UAH Global Temperature Report, along with the LT global gridpoint anomaly image for July, 2020 should be available within the next few days here.The global and regional monthly anomalies for the various atmospheric layers we monitor should be available in the next few days at the following locations:Lower Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txtMid-Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tmt/uahncdc_mt_6.0.txtTropopause: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/ttp/uahncdc_tp_6.0.txtLower Stratosphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tls/uahncdc_ls_6.0.txtI ve always wanted to capture this kind of cloud as a time lapse. I noticed them on my way to work this morning, and had a camera and tripod with me, so this was my chance.These are altocumulus clouds with strong upward motion in them producing precipitation, in this case snow, falling in streaks and not reaching the ground ( virga ). They form when the upper troposphere is unstable, and warm advection (a warm air mass moving into a cool air mass) produces the uplift.http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/Comp-1_1.mp4We live next to a 1,500 ft tall TV tower which frequently gets hit by lightning. We are so close, in fact, that it is difficult to get good photographs because the area just above the tower top is at an elevation angle of 70 deg. viewed from our yard, which is too steep to take pictures through a window, and for outdoor photos will cause rain to fall on the camera lens.So, despite thousands of lightning strikes we have witnessed and heard over the years, I seldom attempt photos or video. Yesterday was one of the rare instances where the thunderstorm anvil trailing downwind of the approaching storm was sending out lightning strokes at regular, ~2 minute intervals before the rain began. This is the best time to watch the lightning for us, usually by lying down on an outdoor lounge chair and looking almost straight up.My camera equipment was still in the car from a short trip to take photos of Comet NEOWISE the previous morning. Sensing this was a chance to capture some good video, I ran out to the car, retrieved my camera backpack and a tripod, and ran to the backyard. I set up the camera and tripod in record time, quickly adjusted the focus manually, and hit the record button.In literally less than 1 second after pressing the record button, the best strike of the storm occurred. Here s an animated GIF of the event 20 video frame captures at 1/24 sec intervals (the vertical scale is exaggerated because I forced WordPress to load the full-resolution file click on the video to see the proper perspective):There are a lot of interesting features that I won t go into here, except I especially like how the ionized channel breaks up into pockets of glowing air during dissipation, here s one of the frames showing that structure:Overview: Death certificate data, corrected for recent under-reporting, reveals a 10-20% decrease in weekly deaths compared to seasonal norms commencing in early March, 2020. This date coincides with the widespread closing of public schools. It is hypothesized that a decrease in traffic accidents is the most likely explanation for the decrease, a conclusion which would be confirmed from detailed analysis of the death certificate data.I had previously blogged on the caution needed when analyzing the death counts from death certificate data compiled by the CDC. The most recent weeks always have under-counted totals because it takes weeks to months for all of the death certificates to trickle in and be counted. Use of the data without knowing this can lead to false conclusions about recently declining death rates. I outlined a simple method for doing a first-order correction of the data based upon the number of additional death reports in each successive week, a method which I use here.The CDC data report weekly deaths in three age groups: less than 18 years old ( child ), 18-64, and 65 on up. The data are updated weekly, and the data online extend back to week 40 in 2015. I examined the death totals for the under-18 year old group versus the totals for the 18-and-older (combined) group. (Only those recent reports that were labeled as 100% reporting were used, but this notation is misleading because the CDC means 100% of the locations around the country had submitted reports, not that all of the reports were complete.)I removed the average seasonal cycle (2016-2019) from the weekly totals, which show a seasonal ~11% peak in deaths in early January for adults, and a weaker ~6% peak in children s deaths in early June (Fig. 1).Fig. 1. Seasonal variations (%) in deaths (all causes) for adults versus children, 2016 through 2019.In order to corrected for under-reporting of recent deaths, I used the data from 4 successive weeks earlier this year to correct the most recent 52 weeks of data. Those 4 successive weeks yielded average week-to-week adjustments which accumulated to 16.5% under-reporting for 1 week previous to latest reported week; 10.4% at 2 weeks previous; 7.8% at 3 weeks; 6.4% at 4 weeks, dropping below 1% at 10 weeks previous, etc.I then computed the weekly percent departures from the average seasonal cycle for the entire time period (since week 40 of 2015). The results (Fig. 2) show the unusually bad peak in seasonal flu and pneumonia deaths in 2017-18, which as expected results in a larger increase in adults that children.Fig. 2. Weekly number of deaths as percent departures from seasonal normals, for adults versus children, plotted as a phase space diagram (successive weeks connected by a line).Note that there is a 10-20% decrease in child deaths beginning in early March, which is when most schools in the U.S closed down. Since the most frequent cause of death in the under-18 age group is auto accidents, it makes sense that the greatly reduced traffic activity during lockdown led to fewer deaths.Of course, the same kind of reduction would be expected in the adult age category, but it is completely overwhelmed in Fig. 2 by the large increase due to COVID-19 deaths, which peaked in mid-April. Since there have been very few COVID-19 deaths in children we more clearly see the reduction in that age group. In absolute terms, a 15% reduction in childhood deaths equates to about 85 children per week. For the last 10 years I have consulted for grain growing interests, providing information about past and potential future trends in growing season weather that might impact crop yields. Their primary interest is the U.S. corn belt, particularly the 12 Midwest states (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Michigan) which produce most of the U.S. corn and soybean crop.Contrary to popular perception, the U.S. Midwest has seen little long-term summer warming. For precipitation, the slight drying predicted by climate models in response to human greenhouse gas emissions has not occurred; if anything, precipitation has increased. Corn yield trends continue on a technologically-driven upward trajectory, totally obscuring any potential negative impact of climate change .What Period of Time Should We Examine to Test Global Warming Claims?Based upon the observations, global warming did not really begin until the late 1970s. Prior to that time, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had not yet increased by much at all, and natural climate variability dominated the observational record (and some say it still does).Furthermore, uncertainties regarding the cooling effects of sulfate aerosol pollution make any model predictions before the 1970s-80s suspect since modelers simply adjusted the aerosol cooling effect in their models to match the temperature observations, which showed little if any warming before that time which could be reasonably attributed to greenhouse gas emissions.This is why I am emphasizing the last 50 years (1970-2019) this is the period during which we should have seen the strongest warming, and as greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, it is the period of most interest to help determine just how much faith we should put into model predictions for changes in national energy policies. In other words, quantitative testing of greenhouse warming theory should be during a period when the signal of that warming is expected to be the greatest.50 Years of Predictions vs. ObservationsNow that the new CMIP6 climate model experiment data are becoming available, we can begin to get some idea of how those models are shaping up against observations and the previous (CMIP5) model predictions. The following analysis includes the available model out put at the KNMI Climate Explorer website. The temperature observations come from the statewide data at NOAA s Climate at a Glance website.For the Midwest U.S. in the summer (June-July-August) we see that there has been almost no statistically significant warming in the last 50 years, whereas the CMIP6 models appear to be producing even more warming than the CMIP5 models did.Fifty years (1970-2019) of U.S. corn belt summer (JJA) warming since 1970 from observations (blue); the previous CMIP5 climate models (42 model avg., green); and the new CMIP6 climate models (13 model avg., red). The three time series have been vertically aligned so their trend lines coincide in the first year (1970), which is the most meaningful way to quantify the long-term warming since 1970.The observed 50-year trend is only 0.086 C/decade (barely significant at the 1-sigma level), while the CMIP5 average model trend is 4X as large at 0.343 C/decade, and the CMIP6 trend is 5.7X as large at 0.495 C/decade. While the CMIP6 trend will change somewhat as more models are added, it is consistent with the report that the CMIP6 models are producing more average warming than their CMIP5 predecessors.I am showing the average of the available models rather than individual models, because it is the average of the models which guides the UN IPCC reports and thus energy policy. It is disingenuous for some to claim that not all IPCC models disagree with the observations , as if that is some sort of vindication of all the models. It is not. If there are one or two models that agree the best with observations, why isn t the IPCC just using those to write its reports? Hmmm?What I find particularly troubling is that the climate modelers are increasingly deaf to what observations tell us. How can the CMIP5 models (let alone the newer CMIP6 models) be used to guide U.S. energy policy when there is such a huge discrepancy between the models and the observations?I realize this is just one season (summer) in one region (the U.S. Midwest), but it is immensely important. The U.S. is the world leader in production of corn (which is used for feed, food, and fuel) and behind only Brazil in soybean production. Blatantly false claims (e.g. here) of observed change in Midwest climate have fed the popular opinion that U.S. crops are already feeling the negative effects of human-caused climate change, despite the facts.This is just one example of many that the news media have been complicit in the destruction of rational climate debate, which is now extending to outright censoring of alternative climate views on not only social media, but also in mainstream news sources like Forbes which disappeared environmentalist Michael Shellenberger s op-ed in which he confessed he no longer believes in a climate crisis .The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for June, 2020 was +0.43 deg. C, down from the May, 2020 value of +0.54 deg. C.The linear warming trend since January, 1979 is +0.14 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).Various regional LT departures from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 18 months are: YEAR MO GLOBE NHEM. SHEM. TROPIC USA48 ARCTIC AUST 2019 01 +0.38 +0.35 +0.41 +0.36 +0.53 -0.14 +1.15 2019 02 +0.37 +0.47 +0.28 +0.43 -0.02 +1.05 +0.05 2019 03 +0.34 +0.44 +0.25 +0.41 -0.55 +0.97 +0.58 2019 04 +0.44 +0.38 +0.51 +0.54 +0.49 +0.93 +0.91 2019 05 +0.32 +0.29 +0.35 +0.39 -0.61 +0.99 +0.38 2019 06 +0.47 +0.42 +0.52 +0.64 -0.64 +0.91 +0.35 2019 07 +0.38 +0.33 +0.44 +0.45 +0.11 +0.34 +0.87 2019 08 +0.39 +0.38 +0.39 +0.42 +0.17 +0.44 +0.23 2019 09 +0.61 +0.64 +0.59 +0.60 +1.14 +0.75 +0.57 2019 10 +0.46 +0.64 +0.27 +0.30 -0.03 +1.00 +0.49 2019 11 +0.55 +0.56 +0.54 +0.55 +0.21 +0.56 +0.38 2019 12 +0.56 +0.61 +0.50 +0.58 +0.92 +0.66 +0.94 2020 01 +0.56 +0.60 +0.53 +0.61 +0.73 +0.12 +0.66 2020 02 +0.76 +0.96 +0.55 +0.76 +0.38 +0.02 +0.30 2020 03 +0.48 +0.61 +0.34 +0.63 +1.09 -0.72 +0.16 2020 04 +0.38 +0.43 +0.34 +0.45 -0.59 +1.03 +0.97 2020 05 +0.54 +0.60 +0.49 +0.66 +0.17 +1.15 -0.15 2020 06 +0.43 +0.45 +0.41 +0.46 +0.38 +0.80 +1.20The UAH LT global gridpoint anomaly image for June, 2020 should be available within the next week here.The global and regional monthly anomalies for the various atmospheric layers we monitor should be available in the next few days at the following locations:Lower Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txtMid-Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tmt/uahncdc_mt_6.0.txtTropopause: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/ttp/uahncdc_tp_6.0.txtLower Stratosphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tls/uahncdc_ls_6.0.txt

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