| sundin13 said: It is called "Global Warming" for a reason, and that reason is that different areas may experience temperature change differently, so you need to take Global temperatures into account, and not just temperatures of one area, such as the USA. If you want to only look at data from 1999 and ignore all the improvements that have been made in our ability to handle the raw data, here is the global temperature data from NASA from 1999:
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Improvement to our abilities to handle raw data... I love that expression. :D Just use original data without tempering.
Heatwaves were much more severe in the 1930s with the "Dust Bowl" killing ten thousand. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is the story of this mega drought.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-high-and-low-temperatures
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ueUsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RCEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4558,3173079
