Sunday, July 30, 2006

Global Warming and the Dust Bowl

There is a hot spell coming this way to Michigan! Global warming.

Well... maybe... maybe not. The projected high temperature here for this spell is 98 degrees. That's a mere 14 degrees cooler than the hot spell of the mid-1930s. In fact, a look at "record" temperatures for many states shows the mid-1930s to be considerably more uncomfortable than we are experiencing now. Maybe that's the reason there was a "dust bowl".

Oh, I know the argument... it's the average temperature, not the extremes. And it's the average for the whole world not just local temperatures.

Just one thought here... maybe record keeping wasn't all that great... or accurate... a century ago. So we need to look at the results of the weather. Gee, that's not fair... the weather's too cyclical.