{"id":186172,"date":"2014-04-17T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/17\/no-anthropogenic-climate-change-my-ass\/"},"modified":"2014-04-17T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:18:00","slug":"no-anthropogenic-climate-change-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/17\/no-anthropogenic-climate-change-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"No Anthropogenic Climate Change, My Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Au8SPR1.gif\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Au8SPR1.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Well, now I know why we had snow on Tuesday, the mid-Atlantic and Northeast US ended up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2014\/04\/16\/the-eastern-united-states-a-lonely-cold-pocket-on-a-feverish-planet\/?tid=pm_pop\">an island of cool in an ocean of global warming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">NASA\u2019s map of March temperatures around the globe is covered in orange and red, indicative of temperatures well above the norm and symptomatic of a planet running a fever for over 29 years.  Yet various shades of blue light up eastern North America shivering under a cold regime which seized control in January.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The wave after wave of bitter cold that has walloped the eastern half of the U.S. since the start of 2014 has truly been an anomaly set against the temperature pattern around the rest of the world. Incredibly,  the eastern U.S. is the only region of the world that has been colder than normal each of the first three months this calendar year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">So the tens of millions of winter weary residents of the eastern U.S. shouldn\u2019t let the frigid weather in their backyard cloud their view of the relatively warm planet.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">While March produced areas of exceptional cold in the Great Lakes and Northeast \u2013 it was the third warmest March on record for the globe, 2 degrees (F) warmer than (the 1950-1981) average according to NASA.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our climate is f%$#ed up and sh%$, and it is getting worse fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now I know why we had snow on Tuesday, the mid-Atlantic and Northeast US ended up an island of cool in an ocean of global warming: NASA\u2019s map of March temperatures around the globe is covered in orange and red, indicative of temperatures well above the norm and symptomatic of a planet running a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,1185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}