{"id":1330,"date":"2014-03-20T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T17:48:14","slug":"it-was-so-cold-in-chicago-that-proves-global-warming-is-a-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"It Was So Cold in Chicago! That Proves Global Warming is a Myth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>First, Chicago is but one observing station, and last winter was but one season, what matters is what happens on a global scale, over time. As Robert Heinlein once quipped &#8220;<em>Climate<\/em> is what you expect, <em>weather<\/em> is what you get.&#8221; You&#8217;ll always have deviations from norms, that&#8217;s what weather is all about. What matters is the general trend of those deviations.<\/p>\n<p>Second, as cold as last winter was in the Midwest, just in the USA alone the extremes of warmth were more profound:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/temps.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1332\" alt=\"temps\" src=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/temps.gif\" width=\"650\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>Note how most of California was the warmest on record. Despite having a very cold winter, <em>none<\/em> of the Midwest was the coldest on record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it doesn&#8217;t. First, Chicago is but one observing station, and last winter was but one season, what matters is what happens on a global scale, over time. As Robert Heinlein once quipped &#8220;Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.&#8221; You&#8217;ll always have deviations from norms, that&#8217;s what weather is all about. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}