"I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less."
3 August 2006You call this heat?Why, this is nothing:
We’ve become so lame. It’s global warming, everyone is sure. After all, it’s "never been this hot before".
On July 11th, 1936, it hit 101 degrees on the north side of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. Take a look at that list — "One Hundred Teens" were very common. 120 in North Dakota. Strangely enough, the Oklahoma 120 degree temps are not on that list, but they are on another Weather Underground page. 120 at Alva, OK on July 18, 1936 And in ‘36, they didn’t have air conditioning. Willis Haviland Carrier built his first A/C rig in 1902, but it was an industrial product: production of home units didn't begin until around 1928, and the Depression put them out of reach of most people anyway. (The Oklahoma City record is 113, set on 11 August 1936.) Posted at 9:22 AM to Weather or NotBack in the mid-80s Tulsa had 15 days over 110. The logo on the Tulsa World started slowly melting and by the time the temp broke, the paper had no logo. Posted by: Dwayne "the canoe guy" at 9:54 AM on 3 August 2006Our local news stations said everything but "it's never been this hot," but at least a couple of them were honest and reported that the last time we hit 100 was in 1995. (Minneapolis had 5 100-degree days in a row in '36, but you only heard that on conservative talk radio; apparently even the weather is political now.) Posted by: Steve G. at 7:03 AM on 4 August 2006"...apparently even the weather is political now." Exactly. For a lot of lefties, Global Warming gives them as much of a charge as the Coming Apocalypse may do for Pat Robertson. Posted by: John Salmon at 3:11 PM on 5 August 2006Robertson, of late, has become an apostle of global warming, though I am persuaded that he'd embrace the Flying Spaghetti Monster if it kept the cash flow steady. |