65 Degrees
This is what it looks like at my house. Maybe I should go somewhere warm. Here it’s 28 degrees. Perhaps………Antarctica.
I just read a news report. Yesterday, Antarctica hit 18.3 degrees. Given Antarctica, not too bad. Maybe a little on the warm side. But shirt-sleeve weather?
Actually, yes. That’s 18.3 Celsius.
Or, in American, 65 degrees.
The warmest temperature recorded in Antarctica since….
temperatures started being recorded.
No, Virginia, climate change is not a hoax. If you lived in Europe you might have figured that out because 2019 was the warmest year on record in Europe.
And no, it is not normal not to need a jacket in Antarctica.
Art W. Stone
02/07/2020 @ 3:58 pm
The King Tides on the northern west coast have been a bit alarming, and quite loud at night. Rain has been in excess of normal patterns, but this close to the sand there has only been a few minutes of snow. Hail is another matter.
02/07/2020 @ 4:04 pm
It is a very interesting contrast considering the polar vortex is reaching its coldest temperatures in 40 years.
The earth is likely undergoing cyclical changes that have occurred since its creation and that is going to continue no matter what we do.
Koshersalaami
09/27/2020 @ 1:53 pm
We are likely to have some influence on what’s going on now. We know that the composition of our atmosphere determines heat retention. We have a good idea what compounds improve heat retention. We have a good idea how the composition of our atmosphere is changing, both because we can sample it and because we can estimate what’s being put into it based, again, on sources we can measure. We know what the short-term consequences of extra heat can look like – they can be modeled and somewhat predicted. We are seeing phenomena change that are in line with these processes. The first discovery of this phenomenon was not politically motivated at all – in fact, this was first figured out by scientists at Exxon who were trying to develop gasoline formulas that would minimize such problems. Pick a television station in your area and talk to the meteorologists there. Pick a university in your area and talk to people in whichever department studies climate. Not the political people, the scientific people. Then reach a conclusion.