Reference :- It's annoyingly dull , but like those horror movie monsters who keep getting up when you thought they were dead , Rowan Dean keeps returning with his godawful weather report claiming to prove climate change is a hoax . We apologise for the length of this post , but will try to keep it entertaining .
Alright , Rowan , are you ready ? But before we begin , I see you took my advice about concealing your tumescence , and wore a suitably loose and dark coloured jacket . Stooping also helped , so well done . Ah yes , record cold , and record snow in the northern hemisphere . What fun . I did like the way you played a couple of songs from the seventies praising the now non existent Autumn . It lightens things up a bit , but I don't quite understand how record low temperatures and the entire season of Autumn cashing in it's chips and vacating the planet proves there is no climate change . Anyway , did we really need to have an Autumn ? It served no useful purpose as far as I can see. My son , Ken junior , annoyingly watching as I write, just told me that's what I said when there was a part left over after I fixed his trail bike , and when he rode it the engine fell out . He's a strange lad , and for the life of me I can't see the connection. Anyway , since there is undoubtedly climate change with all this freezing cold and an entire season torn out of the calendar , the question remains ... Is it , overall , getting hotter or colder globally ? Scientists say it is getting hotter , and if they are correct , there must be places experiencing record heat , to balance out the record cold . And , ahem , there do appear to be a few such places .
South Eastern USA ...... record heatwave this year .
Japan ..... highest temperature ever recorded during heatwaves in Hokkaido
Indo -Pakistan ...... many died in staggering 50.8 degrees heat
Europe ............An unprecedented three major heatwaves with 5 countries experiencing record heat .
Alaska ......record heat wave with temperatures 14.5 degrees higher than the previous record in 2014.
and on and on and on ...........
So then, Rowan . About this record winter that's stirring your loins . Heat waves in the arctic this year produced the highest temperature ever recorded within the arctic circle . This hot air disturbs the circular winds that form a stockade around the polar region confining the freezing air . And it spills south . Climate scientists have been telling us we would experience record cold spells due to global warming for years . Ken junior tells me I am wasting my time explaining all this . He can be quite rude at times and just snapped " Don't waste your time on that Rowan Dean , the man has the brains of a sea cucumber ."
The cheeky bastard . Finally , to follow your lead with those lovely songs , I leave you with this inspiring poem by the very aptly named Robert Frost .
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I have tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Robert Frost was born in 1874 .
He certainly had more brains than a sea cucumber . Your comrade , Ken
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