{"id":1500,"date":"2010-01-13T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/13\/too-hot-too-cold-minute-by-minute\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:21:00","slug":"too-hot-too-cold-minute-by-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/13\/too-hot-too-cold-minute-by-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Too hot? Too cold? Minute by minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrl.noaa.gov\/psd\/map\/images\/fnl\/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html\">Here&#8217;s a cool map from NOAA to start your workday.<\/a>  It&#8217;s like a weather real-time radar map, except it charts where in the world temperatures are above average or below average.<\/p>\n<p>These days, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/Global-Warming-Global-Coo-by-Bob-Williamson-100112-866.html\">you hear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postchronicle.com\/commentary\/article_212278327.shtml\">some people<\/a>, mostly in the American South and Northeast, and in western Europe, saying, &#8220;global warming, what global warming?&#8221;  But, according to the map, they&#8217;re definitely not saying that in Labrador and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Climatologists constantly warn people not to confuse weather with climate.  Short-term weather events versus really, really long-term trends.  It seems like it should be a no-brainer, right?<\/p>\n<p>In football, if a terrible quarterback has a 4 TD day, no one proclaims him the next Joe Montana.  No one predicts a journeyman infielder to be the next Cal Ripkin when he goes 4 for 4 with 5 RBIs in a single game.<\/p>\n<p>So why do we have this problem with drawing a distinction between climate change and today&#8217;s (or this week&#8217;s, or this year&#8217;s) weather?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool map from NOAA to start your workday. It&#8217;s like a weather real-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}