If This Is Global Warming, Give Us a Bit More

Bismarck, North Dakota, set a record for high temperature Wednesday: 62 degrees, according to the Williston Herald. This beat the record set in 1890 by one degree.

And that works out just about right. Climatologists have told us that global warming has resulted in global temperatures rising about 0.7 degree in the past century.

It was 53 degrees in downtown Williston -- the heart of the Bakken -- Wednesday afternoon (November 24, 2011) and it felt wonderful; this photo is not time-date stamped, so you will have to trust me.

I don't know what was causing the heat wave back in 1890 but it may have been related to all those wood stoves.

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This winter could be a repeat of last year's winter -- Rigzone.com.

As shown in Exhibit 5, the 2011-2012 winter forecast shows that temperatures should average between 1°C and 1.4°C below normal. The forecast for November called for a 1.4°C lower temperature range, which would seem to be consistent with the cooling that has been experienced since late October. The chart shows a multitude of temperature forecasts generated by computer models, virtually all of them showing negative deviations. If one compares the forecasted temperatures for this winter with the temperatures experienced last winter (the far left side of the chart), they look similar, but the forecasted temperature anomalies don't show the move back to zero as experienced last summer. That would suggest that in the United States we may not experience the extreme heat witnessed last summer.

Sounds like to me, global cooling. But then that's just me. And ImpactWeather, a Houston-based weather forecasting and consulting firm.