Yesterday in Ames, IA, it was 57 degrees Fahrenheit. Though this was really only slightly above the average high of 45° (and well off the mark of the day’s record high and low of 72° and -11°), it seemed a bit strange. Perhaps because I went on a long motorcycle ride while there was still significant amounts of snow on the ground, which was left over from two weekends of an ice/snow extravaganza (probably about 2 feet, all told).
Today in Ames, IA, it was 72 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a beautiful day for golf, except for all of the snow on the fairways. No big deal, except that in the Wal-Mart parking lot, there are still mounds of plowed snow that are OVER TEN FEET HIGH. It is so warm in my apartment that I was considering turning on the AC, but then I remembered that I could just go outside and make snow angels.
Have I mentioned that I love Iowa?
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In related news, a trek to the North Pole, designed to call attention to global warming (because, really, who hasn’t heard of it yet), was halted due to extremely cold temperatures.
A North Pole expedition… was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. …extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
(It was) quite a bit colder… then (they) had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times…
Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
“They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said. “But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.
And yet, this is so predictable.
Just in case you don’t know, the hallmark of a conspiracy theory is that it cannot be proved to be false. Any evidence to the contrary is simply further proof of the depth of the conspiracy/cover-up. So, let’s review. Warm temperatures? Caused by global warming. Cold temperatures? Caused by global warming. Excessive precipitation/dryness? Caused by global warming. Inability to predict climate patterns based on assumptions of man-made global warming? Oh, that’s because of global warming, too. Trust me.
Manbearpig is a danger to us all.
I was totally going to blog on Iowa’s ridiculous weather today. It’s especially ironic since my neck is still sore from falling on the ice just last week. Want to move to the coast with me?
[...] our beautiful warm weather is not quite as beautiful and warm as the weather in Ames, Madeline and I have certainly been enjoying it. Yesterday we did a few errands in the morning [...]
And Global Climate Change (see, now it covers everything) is caused by increased CO2 emissions, which are caused by burning fossil fuels, which are mostly found in the Middle East, which is home to terrorists.
Therefore global climate change is caused by terrorists.
And, since terrorism is caused by Bush, we can blame Bush for global climate change!
… or something like that. I think. Maybe.
Remember, though: If you disagree with global warming, you’ll get fired from your scientific advisor positions.
I need a big roll-eyes icon here.
-=Russ=-