Sunny. Cold. Still, we snuck out for a walk in the mid-day sunshine.
I couldn’t tell if this was intentional, in the sense of making a statement, or to merely keep the football from rolling away….
Perhaps the more important question is: does it make any difference?
Leaving that aside, this cold, because of the looping jet stream, gives just too much darned ammunition to the simplistic types: how can there be Global Warming when we’re having an extended cold snap?
The answer: “complex systems.” Systems in that changes in one part affect other parts. Always. And sometimes in ways that are difficult to predict using models that have a simplified variable list (the complex part).
But you know that!
7 January 2010 at 1:10 pm
kayak woman says:
Right on! And there’s also that whole thing about how many years accurate and complete world-wide weather records have been kept.