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Dear Editor,
“Climate change” seems to be the scare tactic of choice for the fear-mongering, uni-party swine in Washington, D.C. Tall tales of smoldering heat and shark-nados paint a vivid picture of the wickedness of the leftist media. An island tipping over was also recently used by a U.S. congressman as a potential consequence of global warming.
Is this really the case?
I don’t concern myself with Washington, D.C. It is a cesspool of everything I loathe, a cauldron of evil communistic parasites looking for their next victim, their next ATM. I believe every politician and ranking bureaucrat in the Beltway should have their own Nascar-inspired jackets – with all of their sponsors displayed on their ill-fitting suits and their dainty hybrid cars decked out in the most gaudy climate control, corporate-sponsored stickers. This still would not sway the average voter to wake up to the madness they have elected, but it might help!
What I do concern myself with, though, is the environment in which I find myself imprisoned.
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South Carolina is hot; we sit in the armpit of the south – barely above sea level. But is the Palmetto State actually getting hotter? And if so, shouldn’t record high temperatures be recorded regularly? According to the data of our own government, South Carolina really hasn’t seen record high temperatures in quite some time. The lowest record high for any county in South Carolina is 105 °F, which was last recorded in 2007. The highest recorded high is 113 °F, and was recorded in 2012 in Richland County. Most of our record highs are recorded either in the 1980’s, or well before. In fact, 54 percent of record highs from across the state were registered before 1980. This does not show an upward trend in rising temperatures.
Here is a link to South Carolina’s DNR website, where I obtained this data. A simple Google search will answer all of your questions. The leftist media doesn’t want you to research; they want to seduce you with their silly headlines, and fancy pie graphs. Do not fall for this. Show yourself, challenge the status quo!
Sincerely,
Jeffrey A. Horton, Jr.
Spartanburg, S.C.
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FROM THE EDITOR…
Jeffrey: Thank you for this letter. We addressed reports of rising temperatures in South Carolina in this article last week. Also, it would appear that thanks in part to your submission to this media outlet – and our subsequent inquiries – SCDNR has added a column to its temperature table reflecting the “station period of record,” i.e. when the agency started (and stopped) taking official measurements at each location.
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Having one really, really hot day is just a roll of the dice from various factors. Having consistently warmer weather and altered weather patterns, THAT is climate change.
The 10 warmest years in the 174-year record have all occurred during the last decade (2014–2023).
I’d love to see the data on this! Thanks!
We don’t have time for all that, we’re too busy cutting down trees to put up starter home developments.
If you look at a map of the US, we aren’t in the “armpit”, we’re in the “taint”.
This made me laugh out loud!
Anybody ever notice how the increasing sea tide levels and flooding in Charleston get all this news coverage, but nobody in the media and local scientists bothers to compare them to the levels in the large bays to the north (Winyah & Bulls Bay) and the south (Port Royal Sound)? Because it doesn’t fit the narrative…if the ocean was truly experiencing a net rising effect from ice melt, as predicted by climate alarmists, then it would be fairly consistent in regional geographic areas. But it’s not. Charleston is having lots of problems, but the others are not. But you know what would explain Charleston flooding and high tide level rise locally? Cutting down and developing over 12,000 acres of forest and wetlands in the immediate basin area over the course of 30 years and developing it with imperious surfaces ike roofs and pavement. That drastically increases runoff.
I feel you are 100% correct! Fear-mongering at its finest!
Maybe it’s all anecdotal, but I grew up within 30 miles of where I live today. And it definitely seems hotter to me. When I was growing up we had at least one good snow and occasionally two or three snows a year. We have not had a significant snowfall now for ten years. That seems significant. Summer is harder to gauge, but it seems hotter for longer. We do not seem to have a spring anymore. It gets hot in March and stays hot through October. The weather we have here in the Piedmont seems more like the weather they had in the low country when I was a kid. Again, I know this is not science, but the difference is noticeable to anyone my age I talk to.