I
checked the outside temperature at 9:00 one morning last April and it was 27
degrees F – a little cool for April. But, by 3 p.m. the temperature had risen
to 57 degrees F. That’s a whopping 30
degree rise in just a few hours.
I
had to ask myself, “How did the Earth survive such a warming event”? It was a
tremendous rise in heat in a very short period of time. So I looked back over the entire month, and
found some very startling data. In that
thirty-day period the temperature had risen an incredible total of 599 degrees. That is global warming at its worst. Nearly 600 degrees in just one month! We should have all been roasted and
baked……………
So,
let me put this in perspective. A few
scientists fear a 2 to 3 degree warming over the next century, and yet we’ve
seen many times that in just one month! And
during that month the oceans didn’t rise and flood coastal cities. People didn’t perish from lack of food or
water. Nobody got cooked as they walked
or jogged or golfed.
This
makes me feel much less fearful of “Climate Change”, because it seems to happen
over and over again without any ill effects on the environment or humans. It looks to me like the Earth is able to
withstand wide variations in temperature in both the short term and the long
term, and I’m very grateful for this!
This was posted by Carl E. Gustafson in The-Review – Alliance OH on 03/08/16.
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