Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Global Warming…

…happens each year about this time. It's called "Summer."

The record high temperature in the US is 134° in Death Valley, California. The year was 1913. The all-time global high was 136° in Libya in 1922. Kansas reached 121° in 1936. In fact, 39 states had their record high temps before 1955. And temperatures have not increased the last several years.

It's about 100° in KC right now with a heat index of around 105°. Hot, yes, but not end-of-the-world, sell the SUV hot. Sorry, Al, but here are some inconvenient global warming facts from globalwarming.org:
  • Global temperatures have gone up only half of a degree Celsius in the last one hundred years (or about 1°F in the last 140 years) with most of that warming occurring before 1940. We've seen a slight cooling trend in recent years.
  • 98% of greenhouse gases are from natural sources.
  • The natural greenhouse effect increases our temperature 59°F more than it would be otherwise and life would not exist on Earth without it.
  • In history there have been more extreme climate changes, both colder and warmer, than anything projected for the next century of "climate catastrophe." History has seen both miniature ice ages and Vikings farming in a warm Greenland.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Al Gore's efforts would be better spent if he were trying to be a diplomat to the true crisis that's happenning overseas in the Middle East.

... Now that I say that, maybe it wouldn't be a good idea... It IS Al Gore we're talking about.

Thumper said...

Al Gore, Secret Weapon
Bore them to death!