Eric Swanson wrote:

10 October 2007

RECORD EVENT REPORTS FROM NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DATA

NEW PREVIOUS
YEAR OF
LOCATION RECORD RECORD
PREVIOUS

STATIONS SETTING (OR TIED) A NEW RECORD HIGH
TEMPERATU

AUGUSTA, GA 93 92
1958
CHARLESTON AP, SC 88 TIE 88
1941
CHARLESTON DNTN, SC 86 TIE 86
1958
NAPLES, FL 93 92
1986
PLUMMER, WA 81 TIE 81
1948
RALEIGH-DURHAM, NC 88 86
1997
TALLAHASSEE, FL 91 TIE 91
1931

STATIONS SETTING (OR TIED) A NEW RECORD LOW
TEMPERATU

BROWN FIELD, CA 50 53
1960
ESCONDIDO, CA 50 51
1992
SANTA BARBARA, CA 42 TIE 42
1953
THERMAL, CA 48 49
1994

STATIONS SETTING (OR TIED) A NEW RECORD HIGH
MINIMUM TEMPERATU

MCNARY 2N, AZ 49 44
1996
PETRIFIED FOREST, AZ 53 52
2003

STATIONS SETTING (OR TIED) A NEW RECORD LOW
MAXIMUM TEMPERATU

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Daily high and low records from the U.S. HCN may
be found he

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...ords/index.php

Number of Record Highest Maximum = 130
Number of Record Highest Minimum = 38
Number of Record Lowest Maximum = 5
Number of Record Lowest Minimum = 4

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If the AGWers want something new to worry about,
they can worry about Global Cooling instead - or
also.

Following is an article by Josie Glausiusz which
appears in the October, 2007 issue of "Discover
Magazine"


"A COLD LOOK AT WAR

THE STUDY "Climate Change and War Frequency in
Eastern China Over the Last Millennium," by David
Zhang et al., published in the August 2007 issue
of Human Ecology.

THE MOTIVE In a study of more than 900 years of
conflict in eastern China, a team of researchers
has tested the hypothesis that cold spells fuel
the social instability that leads to war.

THE METHODS Earth scientist David Zhang of the
University of Hong Kong and his colleagues
consulted a multivolume compendium, "The
Tabulation of Wars in Ancient China", which
records wars in China between 800 B.C. and A.D.
1911.**They*focused*on*the*899*wars*that*took
place between the years 1000 and 1911 in densely
populated eastern China.
**The*researchers*then*compared*the*historical
record with climate data for the same period.**In
the past decade, paleoclimatologists have
reconstructed a record of climate change over the
millennium by consulting historical documents and
examining indicators of temperature change like
tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice
cores and coral skeletons.**By*combining*data
from multiple studies, Zhang and his colleagues
identified six major cycles of warm and cold
phases from 1000 to 1911. The team then tabulated
the frequency of wars and grouped them into three
classes: very high (more than 30 wars per
decade), high (15 to 30 wars per decade), and low
(fewer than 15 wars per decade.)**All*four
decades of "very high" warfare, as well as most
periods of "high" conflict, coincided with cold
phases.**The*link*was*most*pronounced*in*the
south, perhaps because of its greater population
density as well as southern migration due to the
cold.
**Two*especially*frigid*periods*(1448-1487)*and
(1583-1717) stand out.**During*the*first*period,
many regions of china suffered huge famines, and
authorities of the Ming dynasty quashed
rebellions in numerous provinces.**At*the
beginning of the second cold era, heavy rains and
sever floods devastated agricultural production,
and during the subsequent famine people were
forced to eat tree bark and even seeds from the
excrement of wild geese.**Later,*between*1620*and
1640, earth's temperature fell to its lowest
point since the beginning of the millennium.**In*
china, major floods followed extreme droughts, and
frequent famines led to mass starvation and
death.**In*1644,*a*peasand*rebel*leader*marched
into the capital and captured Beijing,**Finally,
a Manchu invasion ended the Ming regime.

THE MEANING During warm periods, Zhang explains,
populations increased, but the conditions brought
on by cold phases--shorter growing seasons, less
land available for cultivation, a shortage of
forage for domestic animals, and lower
agriculture yields--could not sustain them.**The
shortages fueled peasant unrest, which
destabilized regimes.**Nearly*all*China's
dynastic changes too place during the cold
spells.
**Zhang*believes*his*work*has*relevance*for*a
warming world.**Global*temperatures*are*expected
to rise faster and faster in the future, and our
expanded population may be unable to adapt to the
ecological changes.**"Animals*can*adapt*to
climate change, mainly by relying on migration,
depopulation--which consists of starvation and
cannibalism--and dietary change," he explains.
"Human beings have more adaptive choices and
social mechanisms, such as birth control, trade,
and scientific innovation.**Some*of*these*social
mechanisms are good for humanity and some are
bad, such as war.**The*war*is*just*like*the
cannibalism of animals." "