It's Never Been Hotter....

The hysteria that accompanies weather reports these days is getting silly. To hear the news anchors talk, the Earth is just days away from turning into a crispy black ball. "It's the hottest it's ever been..." seems to be the mantra, but in fact, the hot weather today hasn't even touched the hottest days on record, and those occurred over 70 years ago:

People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. That "honor" belongs to a summer 76 years ago -- decades before the controversy over "man-made global warming" began.

"From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year."

Between July 19 and Aug. 9 of that year, heat records were set on nine days and they remain unbroken more than three-quarters of a century later. "That's hot," added Michaels, who also serves as professor of natural resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.

The summer of 1930 also marked the beginning of the longest drought of the 20th century. In 1934, dry regions stretched from New York and Pennsylvania across the Great Plains to California. A "dust bowl" covered about 50 million acres in the south-central plains during the winter of 1935-1936.

Hot weather in the summertime...imagine that. And as far as the hottest days ever:

The highest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth was in Aziziyah, Libya, in September of 1922 – 136 degrees Fahrenheit.

The highest temperature recorded in the United States was in Death Valley, Calif., in July of 1913 – 134 degrees Fahrenheit.

And those were both back before man became an evil planet destroyer.

By the way, yesterday where I live it was overcast all day with temperatures barely making it to 75, ten degrees below the average for this time of year. We actually had heavy drizzle last night - in August. I don't hear anyone talking about global cooling.