How can cities cope when the rains just don’t fall?
How can cities cope when the rains just don’t fall?
Just rode to the store in -7ºC air. After last night’s -21ºC ride, it felt like a Hawaiian vacation!
My goal is to avoid getting in a car for anything personal the entire winter. Sometimes I have to drive the kids, but for my own business around town I am sticking to the bike.
Of course, nature may have her own ideas.


100% of climate models predicted warming winters and declining snow.
They are all flawed.
The fallout of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries, which will, it estimates, bear 75-80 per cent of the damage.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2011/0103/1224286666581.html
Send money you don’t have – now – out of mindless, irrational guilt.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/71082.html
Nunavut is suffering from a frightening -34F (-37C) fever. But most of the rest of the planet has a chill.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html
USHCN has turned a non- trend into a large warming trend, by cooling the past in Gunnison, Colorado. They accomplished this by subtracting 3.5 degrees from older temperatures and warming the present
Raw data is the red line and blue axis. Adjusted data is the blue line and green axis. The Y-axis is normalised to 1910.
h/t to Michael D Smith
I wrote this two years ago :
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/18/glasgow-looking-to-freeze-in-the-dark/