Global Warming Strikes Austria

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1. Ivan says:

   March 8, 2011 at 11:49 pm

   I wonder what they would have called this:

   From “In the High Heavens”, published 1910
   Chapter XII – The Heat Wave of 1892 (pg. 278)

   ‘By the 17th of August, a temperature had been reached at Vienna which seems to have rivalled that attained at New York nineteen days previously. We read that on the following day (18th of August) the thermometers at Vienna showed 107° in the shade; the telegrams declare that the streets are deserted, and considering what the feelings of the reporter must have been who described it, we excuse his exaggeration that the Ringstrass was “like a furnace.”’

   Read the rest of it here:
   http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7154221M/In_the_high_heavens.
   There are options to either download the document (24MB) or “Read online” (page-by-page).

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2. Latitude says:

   March 9, 2011 at 12:05 am

   I guess you guys have already read Anthony’s blog, right….

   …I know, I’m always late

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   • suyts says:

     March 9, 2011 at 12:27 am

     Yeh, I did, but was working and the pesky SOBs kept bothering me so I couldn’t follow the commentary! (And I was agitating wingnuts on Curry’s) 🙂

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     • Latitude says:

       March 9, 2011 at 12:31 am

       I sorta made a reference to Judith’s blog in my post……..LOL

       ..I’ll go look!

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     • suyts says:

       March 9, 2011 at 1:14 am

       Well, if you’re gonna do that, look here. I think this is an absolute riot.

       http://judithcurry.com/2011/03/03/neverending-reflections-on-climategate/#comment-52520

       And scroll down……..notice Lambert, after a day comes in to correct one person, but says nothing to me with my criticism with his departure from truth.

       At any rate, the assumption can be made that Lambert was perusing Curry’s blog, but only responds to one person critical of his work? lol, check the date and times……I can’t say I’m positive he saw my posts, but I’m pretty sure he did. And had nothing……

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     • Latitude says:

       March 9, 2011 at 2:27 am

       that was a lot of reading…..

       You punched him right in the mouth….

       ….and he kept talking like nothing happened!

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     • suyts says:

       March 9, 2011 at 3:06 am

       lol, yeh. Sorry about the reading thing, but yeh, that’s my take,

       “You punched him right in the mouth….

       ….and he kept talking like nothing happened!”

       And, while its a bit irksome that in the end, neither Lambert or anyone else responded directly to me calling him out, I know for every commenter, there are several more readers. Hopefully some readers at Deltoid will see it in a different light today.

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3. Luke of the D says:

   March 9, 2011 at 12:46 am

   Mr. Goddard, I do not understand what they mean by “giant ice cap, dangerous because of strong winds.” What does that mean? How is it dangerous? I don’t understand…

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   • stevengoddard says:

     March 9, 2011 at 4:09 am

     I didn’t write it. It is a quote from the article

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4. Chris F says:

   March 9, 2011 at 2:45 am

   What’s so special about this particular lake that they have to break up the ice?

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   • Lance says:

     March 9, 2011 at 3:35 am

     ya, i was wondering that myself.

     but boy look at what happens when global warming hits that lake, the ice was all busted up….

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5. Sleepalot says:

   March 9, 2011 at 3:38 pm

   I think the BBC has got every single aspect of this story wrong – though the video doesn’t work for me.

   What I see in the picture is an ordinary JCB on a specialised, flat-bottomed boat. I suspect they are breaking the thinning ice to stop people walking on it, and the boat is attached to the shore by steel cable for
   speedy recovery should the wind get up.

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