RE: Global temperatures since 1950
February 20, 2014 at 2:02 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2014 at 2:02 pm by Minimalist.)
When I was 11-12 years old ( c. 1961) my brother and I used to play hockey on Lake Ronkonkoma, NY every winter. The largest lake in the county ( you can wiki it) it would freeze solid and hundreds of people would be skating on it and there were even some ice boats whipping across under sail.
Fast forward 30 years. My son turned 12 in 1991. He never skated on the lake. It did not freeze solid enough to allow it.
That is in the span of one life time.
We used to get storms driving west to east across the country. If it was snowing in Chicago we knew we'd be off from school the next day because the storm was heading our way. Now, the jet stream has shifted so that NY gets storms heading up the coast from the south which result in what are called Nor'easters which can take two days to pass and make everyone's life miserable in the process. My son is still in NY. He hates it.
This is climate change.
Fast forward 30 years. My son turned 12 in 1991. He never skated on the lake. It did not freeze solid enough to allow it.
That is in the span of one life time.
We used to get storms driving west to east across the country. If it was snowing in Chicago we knew we'd be off from school the next day because the storm was heading our way. Now, the jet stream has shifted so that NY gets storms heading up the coast from the south which result in what are called Nor'easters which can take two days to pass and make everyone's life miserable in the process. My son is still in NY. He hates it.
This is climate change.
