baz
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I think us Brits do remember how close we are to the arctic circleMove south - we're sweating them off. Fired up the AC last night - 83F in the house and expecting at least 90F today.
You Britts need to remember you're closer to the Artic circle than you are to where the majority of the people of the world live! When I lived in Stuttgart, it was more northern that any part of the US other than Alaska. The southern most part of England is more northern than any part of the US other than Alaska.
There has been plenty of climate change in Virginia since I've lived here. Some of it good. In the 70s if you were outside in Washington DC from July-September you were breathing terrible air. Along came the pollution controls we all hated. Fast forward to 2000 and terrible air days didn't happen often. However, bad air days are on the rise again. There is no industry or farming in the Washington DC metro area - it's all pollution from cars and people - if nothing were done long ago it would not be possible to breath outdoors here and hard to breathe indoors.
BTW, one prevailing theory of what caused the last ice age was global warming! Of course, it takes thousands of years - not happening in this century!
US Highway 50 goes from coast to coast (3072 miles). It is mostly asphalt. It is approximately 800 million surface square feet. During the day when the sun is shining the air temperature above the road is about 20F hotter than the surrounding air. Partly due to car exhaust and partly do heating from the black asphalt. That's one road. Over all, the US has around 709 billon surface square feet of asphalt - all heating the air.
IMHO, the world isn't ending soon like the climate crazies would have you believe, but you're loonytoons if you think there are no climate-related issues.
But thanks for the reminder
There has always been climate change there's no dispute about that
It's just that lately the crazies have latched onto it