Local warming
by Volker Weber
December 31, 3am. 11 degrees Celsius is 52 degrees Fahrenheit. In the middle of the night.
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Calgary is seeing similar temperatures. Last summer I hiked to a nearby glacier that I hadn't visited in a decade. It was once a great location for summer skiing, but it's diminished by 50% in those ten years. In another 15 it will be gone.
It was 13 degrees here (admittedly during the day) at one point. Crazy... this comes after a week of full-on central heating and nice fires in the evening. We're all doomed!
Oh, and Happy New Year :o)
It might be unseasonably warm where you are but its unseasonably COLD down here. Normally we'd be wearing t-shirts, shorts and jandals but for the last week its been thermals. As a last straw today (and after much debate I might add), we actually lit the fire!
In Vegas, it was colder....40 on the strip, 32 (0 C) at the house....
"„Klimakatastrophe, I love you - hier stehen Leute im T-Shirt vor der Bühne!“ Farin Urlaub, der Gitarrist der Ärzte, kann es nicht fassen. Tatsächlich scheint die Band das Glück gepachtet zu haben. Nicht viele deutsche Musiker schaffen es, das RheinEnergie-Stadion zu füllen, und sicher gibt es nur eine Band, die das an Silvester versucht. Die Ärzte haben es gewagt und hatten Erfolg: Das Konzert war lange vorher ausverkauft. So feierten 45 000 Fans im Freien eine Silvesterparty."
Hat auch gute Seiten :-)
Na und ich war Golf Spielen am Sonntag zu Sylvester in München. War prima.
Uebrigens Klimakatastrophe: Alles Schnickschnack. Im Mittelalter war es wärmer, und lediglich Anfangs des 15. Jahrhunderts wurde es deutlich kälter, was dafür gesorgt hat, dass uns die Schweden bald 30 Jahre lang überfallen haben und es Bauernaufstände und Finanzkriege unter religiösen Vorwänden gab. Wollt ihr das etwa wieder? IKEA reicht doch schon.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelalter#Trivia
Entsprechend Happy new Year!
Christoph
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