Re: [OM] OT: Snow, graves and a poet

[Joel Wilcox]

I am perfectly willing to accept the hypothesis of climate change, but I
had to laugh about it yesterday when the weather person said "We're
experiencing the warmest winter temperatures since the record year of
1918!"

Joel W.

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 07:23 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> You call it climate change because you think it's unprecedented.  You're 
> simply not old enough to remember the "Big Freeze of 1963".  :-)
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%931963_in_the_United_Kingdom>
> 
> It's just La Nina and the cold phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. 
>   Since these are long period oscillations I guess you can call it 
> climate... but it's not unprecedented.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt

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