Thursday, January 17, 2008
If this isn't global warming, what IS going on?
Nine years ago I moved to Munich to start a new job, arriving in a Saturday night snowstorm in the middle of winter. Temperatures were down to -20C at night (and some days, didn't climb about -10C) for the first two weeks I was here. I was blinded by the brightness of the snowscape and quickly had to invest in a new wardrobe of clothes and boots warm enough for the extremes of winter.
When I was briefly back in London after two weeks in deepest midwinter, the daffodils were in flower, but it was April before the thaw, that year, in Upper Bavaria.
Admittedly, the 98/99 winter was a biggie, as was the winter of 05/06, when the snow also stayed around until April. But since then, the winters have been too warm and too wet. Take this morning, for example. It was +6C this morning. I don't even have to scrape the ice off my car windscreen in the mornings whereas most winters I've needed to shovel the snow off the driveway before brushing it off the car before scraping the ice. So if this is not global warming, what is it?
When I was briefly back in London after two weeks in deepest midwinter, the daffodils were in flower, but it was April before the thaw, that year, in Upper Bavaria.
Admittedly, the 98/99 winter was a biggie, as was the winter of 05/06, when the snow also stayed around until April. But since then, the winters have been too warm and too wet. Take this morning, for example. It was +6C this morning. I don't even have to scrape the ice off my car windscreen in the mornings whereas most winters I've needed to shovel the snow off the driveway before brushing it off the car before scraping the ice. So if this is not global warming, what is it?
Labels: globalwarming, rant
# posted by Nesjo : 09:24
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