the suicide in 1870 of Napoleon III’s minister to Washington, Prevost Paradahl, was attributed by some to the city’s oppressive heat
M. Paradahl shot himself in Georgetown, the oppressive heat having apparently unhinged his mind. In the unfortunate Frenchman’s time, the more civilized British listed tropical Washington as a hardship post, an epithet consigning hazardous duty pay that they preserved well into the 1940’s.
Un-Fortunately, Barry can just run back inside.
The White House did not get its first air-conditioner until 1931. According to the curator’s office, the White House was not fully and centrally cooled until its reconstruction of 1948-1952. Milestones in Air-Conditioning
and now we have the eco nazi’s telling people what to do on their own property: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/12/22/New-York-Cop-Threatens-To-Ticket-Man-Washing-Car-In-His-Own-Driveway#
They are all unhinged in Washington so far as I can see.
Minnesota children won’t know what a shovel is for. And it’s pelting down at the game.
http://www.fox11online.com/sports/packers-and-nfl/packers-ask-for-more-shoveling-help-saturday-december-21-2013
Alarmists have sucked people into believing its not cold and they are dying as a result.
Maybe there should be an inquest into Alarmist contributions to the deaths.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/22/us/winter-weather/
http://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw
Shock News: Obamacare destroys the health of Whitehouse staff.
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20131222/Obamas-aides-stay-on-despite-exhaustion-health-law-woes.aspx
we’re almost 28 years into Hansen’s prediction… how many days over 100 does DC have and how many nights over 80?
Thanks for your humor in describing the clueless bureaucrats that tried to convert government science into a tool of government propaganda.
See also http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/does-anybody-real-know-what-tsi-it-is/
BET Y’ALL DIDN’T EXPECT THIS!
To Clean up Coal, Obama Pushes More Oil Production
DE KALB, Miss. December 22, 2013 (AP)
America’s newest, most expensive coal-fired power plant is hailed as one of the cleanest on the planet, thanks to government-backed technology that removes carbon dioxide and keeps it out of the atmosphere.
But once the carbon is stripped away, it will be used to do something that is not so green at all.
It will extract oil.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/clean-coal-obama-pushes-oil-production-21301964
The worst thing that ever happened was air conditioning the government. That city was not someplace people stayed long, preferring to go back home than remain in the fever swamp. Now look at what technology has wrought.