Watkin Tench of the Royal Marines detailed a heatwave powered by north-westerly winds that howled for three days… “an immense flight of bats, driven before the wind … dropped dead or in a dying state, unable longer to endure the burning state of the atmosphere”… temperature was 101 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38.3 Celsius. Read more here.
Archives for July 27, 2009
Garth Paltridge on The Climate Caper
Resisting Climate Hysteria
The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public … Read more here… from Richard Lindzen at Quadrant Online.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.