There hasn't been much global warming in the US over the past 70 or 80 years. Most of the Southeast has actually cooled. From the blog CO2 Science, here is the temperature record for Corsicana, just South of Dallas. (It is difficult to get a meaningful record for a City like Dallas because of the "heat island effect."

USHCN Temperature Record of the Week: Corsicana, TX


To bolster our claim that "There Has Been Little Net Global Warming Over the Past 70 Years," each week we highlight the temperature record of one of the 1221 U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) stations from 1930-2005.

This issue's temperature record of the week is from Corsicana, TX. During the period of most significant greenhouse gas buildup over the past century, i.e., 1930 and onward, Corsicana's mean annual temperature has cooled by 1.03 degrees Fahrenheit. Not much global warming here!