February 15, 2003
GLOBAL WARMING, MY FOOT:
In Valley Cold, Even the Igloos Get Put on Hold (Omar Sacirbey, 2/15/03, Valley News)Call it a polar paradox, but it's too cold to build igloos.Yesterday's record-breaking cold temperatures coupled with forecasts that they will continue forced the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich to cancel today's annual Igloo Build. [...]
The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury, Vt., recorded a low yesterday in Lebanon of 27 below zero, shattering the old Valentine's Day mark of 16 below, set in 1955, Fairbanks meteorologist Stephen Maleski said. The warmest Valentine's Day recorded in Lebanon was 53 degrees in 1946. The average temperature for the day is 22 degrees, while the average high and low are 34 and 11.
It's not the (lack of) heat, it's the (lack of) humidity. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 15, 2003 11:19 AM
Last week the Detroit Free Press carried an article saying 2002 was the second warmest year on record. What they really meant to say was it was Europe's, since down about the 10th para they noted 2002 was North America's 14th
warmest year.
JG
Europe needs more greenhouse gases.
Posted by: oj at February 16, 2003 8:26 AM"History," in this sense, goes back only to
1979. There are no data any earlier.
And the current data are very shaky.
Nobody knows how cold or warm 2002 was,
globally, because nobody measured.