If you have kids who are disturbed by this administration’s distaste for the climate change narrative, I recommend that you sit them down and have them read the short historical weather anecdote on the Fairbanks Museum’s weather page each morning. Apparently, the weather is wild and wacky—at least here in Vermont—all the time, it’s just that most of us have really bad memories. Or little knowledge of history.
Here’s the report from August 7th:
“On this date in 1918, many thermometers hovered near the century mark during a brief but blistering heat wave. Earlier that week, temperatures dropped to the 30s on the 4th. By the 7th and 8th the mercury soared to 96 in St. Johnsbury, 99 in Cavendish, 100 at Cornwall, and topping the list Vernon at 102. Temperatures maintained their roller coaster fashion through the month, with scattered frost reported on the 18th in a number of communities.”
A climate ‘scientist’ would characterize a month like that described above as averaging 65°, temperature-wise, which would wholly erase the extremes experienced during the month. And certainly, if a climate ‘scientist’ were to forecast the weather in such a month and tell you that you were in for 65° days, on average, you’d likely end up gob-smacked. And seeking to fire them quickly.
If your kids need more convincing that the whole carbon emissions narrative is questionable, I recommend the book “Air and Rain: The Beginnings of a Chemical Climatology” by Robert Angus Smith, published in 1872 and free to read and/or download at Google Books. After that, I suggest Ernst-Georg Beck’s “180 Years of Atmospheric CO2 Measurement By Chemical Methods.”
-Jacqueline Brook, Putney