It hasn’t hit 100° F. in Albuquerque officially since July 15, 2003.
Think we’ll hit triple digits this year?
An aside: In Tucson, when it first hits 100° each spring they say, “The ice has broken on the Santa Cruz [River].” (Made all the funnier by the fact that there is seldom water in most of the Santa Cruz, let alone ice.) The ice broke on the Santa Cruz this year on May 11th.
100° Fahrenheit = 37.7777778° Celsius
Perhaps we’re familiar with smog, and we think of
pollution as a noxious chemical stew or a hot exhaust
spew. A certain political wing reads their
subliminally wrong ideas into Global Warming reports,
and reduces science to their simple notions and words.
The naysayers create basic fallacies and wild
exaggerations, echoed incessantly.
The Global Warming Theory states that the increased
CO2 retains heat (physics), NOT makes heat
(chemistry). The heat can be man-made, or
extraterrestrial sunspot activity, it doesn’t matter –
we can’t get rid of it! The past ice ages and warming
periods are actually a confirmation of the correlation
of CO2 and temperature. The fact that CO2 is natural
doesn’t lessen the fact that we’re flooding our
atmosphere. That the molecule CO2 is in itself
non-toxic is meaningless. Water is natural and
non-toxic, but too much is called a flood, and we do
something about it.
The physics can be demonstrated : park a black car,
windows up, in the sun. The paint will be too hot to
touch, yet the interior will be hotter than the
enclosed black trunk. The glass retains the thermal
heat energy wavelengths, trapping them inside. Global
Warming is a very real problem.
Also, about Mars warming up, …. . Mars has a thin atmosphere, about 1% of ours. It is almost all CO2, and has as much as our atmosphere. Mars is retaining the solar heat, because that’s how CO2 works. The right-winger ignorants think Mar’s warming is proof of something they don’t understand.
Thanks for the background, Richard.
And I thought global warming was caused by Daylight Saving Time and that extra hour of sunshine.