This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Thursday, 24 June 2021
A Hot Tin Roof?
Every year, certainly since 2019, there are annual reports of record temperatures in California's Death Valley. The latest, is a world record (for June) in the Valley's Furnace Creek, of over 53 degrees Centigrade on the 17th of that month (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/severe-heatwave-in-us-states-breaks-june-temperature-records). The account notes concomitantly unseasonal cold in the Southern hemisphere, with snow falling in Argentina. No such thing as climate change?
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