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2019-02-03 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-03 07:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 US: Winter, Australia: Summer.
There must be a connection somehow.

Posted by Sheng Trotsky3676 2019-02-03 07:29|| 2019-02-03 07:29|| Front Page Top

#2 A hemisphere, an equator, an ecliptic, and a little tilt to an axis. None of which is covered in Journalism school (or most of the 'scientific' community it seems).

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-03 07:58|| 2019-02-03 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Just bring the hot Australian summer to the US Midwest - problem solved!

Posted by Raj 2019-02-03 08:42|| 2019-02-03 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Circa 2059 - "The geoengineering project to equalize the Earth's seasons by eliminating the tilt of the planets axis was hailed a major success just a few short years ago. But now that the Earth is orbiting closer to the Sun each year, scientists are re-evaluating..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-03 08:49|| 2019-02-03 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 could be the city’s coldest day ever.

But it wasn't. The coldest day ever, and I was there, was reported (at the time) as -29 with a wind chill of minus seventy-five. Late January, 1985, well before the birth of most 'journalists'.

The train was two minutes late, so I got to work at 8:02. I did pay $0.45 for the bus, instead of walking from the train station to the office. But we didn't have man-made global climate change then.

Posted by Bobby 2019-02-03 11:41|| 2019-02-03 11:41|| Front Page Top

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