In an article for the Idaho Statesman about climate change impacts in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Barker interviewed Philip Mote – the director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Oregon Climate Services, and the lead author of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment, where this statement was made: Mote points to one of the data sets of his University of Idaho colleague John Abatzoglou. 'When he looked at the coldest day of the year a lot of the stations have temperatures 10 degrees warmer than they were in the early part of the 20th Century,' Mote said. Well, according to the NOAA National Weather Service database, among the 10 climate sub-regions in the Pacific Northwest that have climate records for the “coldest day of the year” dating back before 1940, there is only one significant trend toward a warming in the coldest day of the year since records began (this is in the Medford Area, OR)....(Read Full Post)