The Guardian says the earth is on fire.
“Hottest January on record”
This is different from what they were saying fifty years ago.
“Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast
snow and ice cover of the earth increased by 12 per cent during 1967-1972”
It was persistently cold here (W.MA) in January. Not bitterly cold except for one minus 19 morning but I don’t believe we had even one day above freezing. Apparently “Not A Single Day Above Freezing” is the new “On Fire”
(AI) Automated Idiocy now spells ‘freezing’ as ‘fire’, and RED is the new blue (‘hot’ is the new ‘cold’).
Down here in the South Pacific where it’s supposed to be summer, I had the pleasure of yet another ‘white birthday’ when it SNOWED on the mountains of New Zealand last week – something I’ve enjoyed up in Colorado in February / winter yet lately it’s happening more and more in the opposite hemisphere.
And having had zero cyclones up to this point, 4 months into Cyclone Season, finally we have 2 of them, albeit minor ones, spinning off Australia and Fiji. Hopefully some of their warm humid air drifts down this way before winter arrives: we can only live in hope.
haha. Hope springs eternal. The ice on the lakes and ponds here is very thick, people are driving on it. The State has helpfully posted signs – Danger! Thick is the New Thin!
Where I live in Metcalfe County KY last year and this year so far has been cooler than normal. The Guardian…did they get USAID monies by chance? if yes than soon they will go broke.
During the recent French Vendee Globe around the globe sailing race which occurs every four years the race organisers were forced to alter the “ice exclusion zone” to the official race course in the southern ocean, to keep the contestants further north away from icebergs.
Single handed, at night, doing 15 to 20 knots? Thousands of miles from any possible rescue?
The last sailor to have seen an iceberg on the Vendée Globe course was Samantha Davies, in 2008, three skippers spotted them this year after being warned by race control who responded to warnings from satellite monitoring of the ice.
https://www.allatsea.co.uk/event-news/icebergs-seen-on-course-for-the-first-time-since-2008/