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On January 26, 1950 the US had a temperature range of 153 degrees. It was 96F at Rio Grande City, Texas and -57F at Chester, Montana. The coldest temperature in Texas was 4F, so that state had a spread of 92 degrees. Fourteen states were over 80 degrees and twenty-three states were over 70 degrees.

26 Jan 1950, 8 – Intelligencer Journal at Newspapers.com

TX 96
FL 86
MS 85
GA 85
LA 84
AR 83
AL 83
SC 83
NC 81
OK 80
KY 80
PA 80
WV 80
VA 80
TN 79
MD 79
IN 78
OH 77
NJ 76
DE 76
MO 75
IL 74
NY 74
MA 69
CT 69
MI 67
ME 64
NH 64
AZ 63
CA 63
RI 63
NM 62

    High  Low  Range
TX   96     4   92
MT   34   -57   91
MI   67   -18   85
MO   75    -9   84
IN   78    -3   81
OK   80     1   79
AZ   63   -13   76
UT   49   -25   74
CO   45   -28   73
AR   83    11   72
IL   74     2   72
NM   62    -8   70
CA   63    -3   66
NV   48   -17   65
WY   39   -26   65
SD   32   -32   64
NE   32   -31   63
WA   39   -23   62
WI   38   -22   60
KS   32   -27   59
IA   32   -24   56
OH   77    23   54
OR   49    -4   53
MN   17   -34   51
ID   34   -16   50
KY   80    30   50
ME   64    14   50
PA   80    30   50

“Now onto something that not only shows how … much we humans have impacted our environment. This is a comparison shot of the same place in the Arctic. The first was taken in 1917 and the second in 2020. They show just how much the Arctic ice is melting. Scientists say it’s melting at a rate that’s twice as fast as the rest of the world, with dire consequences for the warming of the planet.”

50 Photos that Really Put Things into Perspective

A glacier shrank between 1917 and 2020, and the only possible explanation is that humans caused it.

“Prof. T. G. Bonney has some very interesting things to say in “Nature” on what he calls “the shrinkage of the world’s ice mantle.” There has been a general retreat, he says, of the European glaciers since 1861.”

21 Nov 1908 – THE WORLDS ICE MANTLE. – Trove

26 Jul 1905, Page 1 – The Topeka Daily Capital at Newspapers.com

22 Oct 1903, 2 – The Newton Journal at Newspapers.com

16 Aug 1902 – Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. – Trove

“The shores of the continent form two large open bays, which were terminated (July 12, 1794) by compact, solid mountains of ice rising perpendicularly from the water’s edge and bounded to the north by a continuation of the united, lofty, frozen mountains that extend eastward from mount Fairweather. In these bays also were great quantities of broken ice, which, having been put in motion by the springing up of a northerly wind, were drifted to the southward.”

The Fairweather ice-sheet extended then some 40 miles south of its present limit in the bay”

– April 1896

The National Geographic Archive | April 1896 | page 1

14 Aug 1929 – EUROPEAN GLACIERS

26 Nov 1903, 2 – The Marshfield News and Wisconsin Hub

Wayback Machine

13 Oct 1910, Page 7 – Aberdeen Herald

02 Nov 1922, Page 1 – Great Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com

History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park

National Geographic Magazine Archive

The Present Climatic Fluctuation on JSTOR

National Geographic used to know that glacial behavior was associated with solar activity.

National Geographic : 1967 Feb, Page 194

GOP senator from North Dakota wants to tackle climate change : NPR

Apparently -37F isn’t cold enough for his tastes, and he believes the solution is to make energy unaffordable and unavailable.

Bone-chilling cold grips Red River Valley; Fargo ties record low, Grand Forks sets record 

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

? Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The mercury plumbed thermometric depths again in western Canada and the Northwestern sector of the United States with the polar mass expected to envelop most of , the north central states tomorrow. A reading of -41 marked the twenty-ninth consecutive day of sub-zero temperatures at Bemidji. Minn. A 62-year-old record fell at. Bismarck. N. D. A minimum of -27 wee recorded there today. A drop to -50 at Saskatoon. Sask . Canada. rounded out 56 days in a row In which the thermometer has never ventured above -20. Other low marks included: Minot, N. D., -39; Havre, Mont., -30; Sheri-dan, Wyo., -16; Aberdeen, S. D.. -21: Lutherville.Md:. -13. “

13 Feb 1936, 2 – The Missoulian at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 5 – The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, Page 2 – Warrenton Gazette at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 7 – The Head-light at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 4 – Iowa County Democrat at Newspapers.com

09 Aug 1878, 6 – News Herald at Newspapers.com