Stanford made headlines last month claiming that Napa wines are doomed from high summer temperatures due to global warming. I plotted USHCN Napa summer maximum temperatures since 1960 below.
Anthony’s surfacestations.org rates this station as a class 5
Temperature sensor located next to/above an artificial heating source, such a building, roof top, parking lot, or concrete surface.
Even with the obvious UHI problems, it still doesn’t show much warming in summer maximum temperatures. Looks like Stanford is FOS.
Here is the USHCN maximum temperature plot for all months. Napa is cooling, not heating.
I think this was their study:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/knowledgebase/cgi-bin/2011/07/05/global-warming-threatens-californias-premium-wine-industry/
It’s all based on projected global temperature increases. I guess they don’t teach context at Stanford.
In any other field of science, people would be expected to verify past performance of the model. But this is religion, not science.
With UHI and siting issues the globe has probably been cooling since the thirties and the glaciers have yet to respond. We already know the majority of ice loss in the polar regions is due to wind and ocean currents. Chances are that glacier ice loss is due to other factors besides warming as the temperature reached above melting even before the thirties during the recovery from the LIA.
Whatever happens to the weather in Napa, or anywhere for that matter, is going to happen.
It is becoming obvious that you don’t understand the science behind Global Warmin/Climate Change/Global wierding. Don’t you know you cannot trust actual observations. You have to believe in the models. It is like the “good old days” — you have to trust the “witches brew”. You are doomed if you question the ingredients.
I admit that I lack faith. Franny may have to press the red button.