What's so great about cold weather?
Coldest November in 32 years, the Charlotte Observer reports.
Fifth-coldest since records began in 1878 ...
More than 6 degrees below normal.
Is that good news? After all, policymakers say our climate is too warm.
Severe cold is dangerous, and drives up heating costs. Consumption of home-heating oil and natural gas increases. If our goal is to reverse a harmful warming trend (to whatever extent that's possible), what allowances should we make for the effects of winter cold?
Of course, one month doesn't indicate a long-term pattern. Fall weather doesn't even forecast what the coming winter has in store. Looks like the first 10 days of December are expected to be seasonably cool in Greensboro, not super cold. It's possible we'll experience another mild winter.
Which, after some of our recent frosty mornings, doesn't really sound so terrible.
Comments (2)
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This cold weather is an anomaly. All the best computer models, which are a kind of video game played at the UN, indicate that the earth will incinerate by midcentury unless capitalism is stopped in Europe and northern North America. And of course you missed the study showing that global warming will cause global cooling for the next decade or so. The important thing to remember is that it's catastrophic, whatever it is.
What can you do? Support programs like Cool Cities. Since Gboro signed on, the earth's temperatures have plummeted. Good work, City Council!!!! If it gets too cold, we can opt out, thereby creating a more temperate climate.
Posted on December 1, 2008 10:40 PM
Be careful. There are people who will take you seriously.
Posted on December 2, 2008 4:04 PM