The NOAA National Climatic Data Center has released the complete 2014 dataset of state, regional, and national climate data.  This allows us to look for which regions have statistically significant trends in annual temperatures over the past three decades – the period over which climate alarmists tell us that climate change impacts should be evident. The results are not promising for the alarmists. The contiguous United States as a whole has absolutely no sign of a significant trend in its annual temperature since 1985.  Only two of nine climate regions – the Northeast and Southwest – have significant trends over this time. Out of the 48 contiguous states, we are now down to just 11 with significant trends in annual temperatures – Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont. During the past two decades (i.e., since 1995), the non-parametric correlation in the...(Read Full Post)