Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Springtime In Marquette
24 inches of snow last week. 12 more this week. More on the way this weekend. You all know what springtime in Marquette is like, and we're getting a lot of it lately! But ya gotta love it. Everyone I talk to is happy to be here and most of us don't mind the snow even if it comes in April. (May, June...not so much). We're waiting for courses to open in the county and we all hold a good thought about coming warm weather. No global warming stories on the Today Show as they shiver through the same kind of weather. Hmmmm.... In fact at the risk of spreading mis-information...that's for you Chas...I read somewhere (somewhere!) that the cool temperatures around the world this winter have effectively "undone" that last 10 years of warming in terms of average temperatures. Anyone else hear that?
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Haven't heard that about the cooling trends...global warming is often misunderstood in that although the overall temperature of the earth is rising, the main issue is that this affects local weather patterns in a variety of ways. I'm no expert but that's my impression of it.
I talked to Liam at the course yesterday and he said they're shooting for the 25th for the first nine of the Heritage to be open. That's got to be one of the latest I've ever heard. Do you remember what the date was last year?
We miss Marquette but I do enjoy being out on the course in some capacity right from the beginning in April!
To add to what Brian said, very few climatologists talk about "global warming" any more. The usual phrase now is "climate change", acknowledging the fact that no one really has any idea what will happen if we drastically change the chemical balance of the earth's atmosphere - it's just too complex to model properly. The better question is, do we want to risk it?
Also, people who use year over year temperature changes to talk about climate change are not thinking on a geological time scale. There was a talk at Kodak where a solar power researcher said that temperature changes due to CO2 levels (according to the ice cores taken in Antarctica) have historically lagged C02 increases by 1000 years. This suggests that the impact of burning fossil fuels won't be obvious for a while, and when it is, it will likely be too late.
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