Links tagged “olympics”
- Shock news: No snow on the ground just before the 1980 winter Olympics in Lake Placid
New York Times - January 17, 2014 - 'In Lake Placid, where there is virtually no snow, everybody talks about the weather, but nobody can surrender to it...A warm, rainy winter has left miles of Olympic ski trails soggy and bare, officials steadfastly maintain that the games will open here on schedule Feb. 12.'
- 1932 shock news: No snow just before the winter Olympics – ‘High temperatures and lack of snow’
Associated Press - January 26, 1932 - 'Two-thirds of Mount Van Hoevenberg Slide Available' - 'High temperatures and lack of snow held them (athletes) up for weeks' - 'The intervals ski jump, closed since the intercollegiate event for the Harding Trophy Jan. 2 because of lack of snow was reopened today...'
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Canadian National Fire Database data disputes climate link to fires: ‘There has been a significant & continuing decline in the number of fires & no discernible trend in the area burned’
According to Canada’s Department of Natural Resources, fires have been occurring for thousands of years in the boreal forests of eastern Canada - not exactly unprecedented. In addition, they call fire a primary change agent that is as crucial to forest renewal as the sun and rain -perhaps not a calamity either.It appears that 2023 is on pace to be a year with unusually high numbers of fires. Yet the previous year was one of historically low numbers. The Canadian National Fire Database (2023) provides facts to dispute the idea of climate change-driven increases in fires in Canadian fires. According the CNFD, there has been a significant and continuing decline in the number of fires and no discernible trend in the area burned. -
USA Today: Smoke ‘keeping temperatures cooler than average – Temps ‘running 5-8 degrees cooler than forecast due to smoke in the atmosphere’
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Media Wrong Again & Quebec wildfires: ‘Media has been quick’ to link Canada fires to man-made climate change
USA Today: As Canada burns, smoke makes US air unhealthy and skies eerie. Is climate change to blame? - "Climate change is real and having a huge impact on Canadians right now with forest fires burning across the country," tweeted Catherine McKenna, Canada's former climate minister. ...
USA Today: Smoke 'keeping temperatures cooler than average - Temps 'running 5-8 degrees cooler than forecast due to smoke in the atmosphere': Due to an area of low pressure that's hovering offshore, along with an area of high pressure over Canada, a northerly flow of air was funneling the smoke south into the U.S. from Canada, AccuWeather said. This was keeping temperatures cooler than average, as the smoke filters out the blazing June sunshine.For example, the weather service in Washington, D.C., said in an online forecast discussion Tuesday that "temperatures this morning have been running 5-8 degrees cooler than forecast due to the smoke in the atmosphere."
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