Global Warming, Hunh?
Bismarck, ND recorded a temperature of -44 this morning. It is the coldest morning in nearly 100 years. It is only one degree shy of the all-time coldest temperature in history (period of record 1875 to present) there. That cold air mass in Alaska and the Yukon persisted for 12 days straight. For those twelve days, the minimum temperatures ranged from -55 deg F to a whopping -68 deg F. Mind you, the all time record for Alaska is -76 in Ft. Yukon way back when. -68 is not that far off.
I can't wait for that first hot spell in the summer and the Greenpeace solicitors are out there in Central Sq., Cambridge taking advantage of the weather conditions to try and drum up support.
Climate changes, that goes without question. There are 4,000 year-old olive and cypress trees in sheltered mountainous areas in the middle of the Sahara. Are they mute witnesses to this?
Would an increase in temperature make more arable land available in areas now too cold for agriculture?
Or does a change in storm tracks, and thus precipitation patterns, make more of a difference in the long run? And, further, do these changes in storm tracks have any relation to atmospheric temperatures (probably some, due to wind dynamics, but not entirely; I bet there are unconnected factors)
John D. Moore
I can't wait for that first hot spell in the summer and the Greenpeace solicitors are out there in Central Sq., Cambridge taking advantage of the weather conditions to try and drum up support.
Climate changes, that goes without question. There are 4,000 year-old olive and cypress trees in sheltered mountainous areas in the middle of the Sahara. Are they mute witnesses to this?
Would an increase in temperature make more arable land available in areas now too cold for agriculture?
Or does a change in storm tracks, and thus precipitation patterns, make more of a difference in the long run? And, further, do these changes in storm tracks have any relation to atmospheric temperatures (probably some, due to wind dynamics, but not entirely; I bet there are unconnected factors)
John D. Moore
