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So this is the warmest Summer since 1936, eh? As Rich Galen points out, five of the warmest ten Summers came in the 1930s. They were also accompanied by a devastating dust bowl and concomitant depression. It shows how much we have advanced in technology and resiliency since then that equivalent temperatures have had virtually no effect on our way of life (and before anyone mentions hurricanes, all the research on hurricane damage shows no increase when non-weather factors are taken into account, never mind the dispute over the effect of warming on hurricanes). This might just be a clue that technology, economic strength and resiliency are the keys to dealing with potential warming.
Meanwhile, back to 1936. How much warmer was that Summer? 0.23 degrees Centigrade. Missed it by a whisker, eh? Well, remember that all the warming over the twentieth century amount to 0.6 degrees C and that, as I point out in my article today, even a fully implemented and enforced Kyoto Protocol would avert just 0.07 degrees C in warming by 2050. In other words, this Summer was colder than 1936 by three Kyotos.
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