Archive for the 'cold' Category
New Philly Weekly: Climate Change Follies
I’ve always been confused by the debate between which term is more appropriate to describe humanity’s carbon dioxide driven destruction of our world: global warming or climate change? “Climate change” has such a passive sound to it, but “global warming” is confusing: how come it snows so much if the globe is getting warmer?
So for [...]
Trip to Montreal, Part 1
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I really haven’t written very much about the adventure I had getting Sam into the US for Christmas.
Dad and I left for Montreal around 6:30 PM on December 23rd, and got on the road about a half hour later due to a stop for gas and a visit to [...]
Why Only the Poorest?
,blockquote>If the Senate could summon some wisdom, it would interrupt its mud wrestling over partisan placebos for the gas crisis long enough to debate something real: emergency help for the nation’s poorest families who face skyrocketing home heating costs this winter.
–NYT, 7/25/08
I’m not one to criticize measure that help the poor, but as someone who [...]
So Where’s My Snow?
I took the trolley and the el into work today, because last night the weather forecasters were going nuts about the evening snow, which was going to tie up the evening rush. Anyone who’s driven on the Vine Expressway or the Schuylkill Expressway (or, let’s face it, pretty much any highway or main road [...]
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The lovely Christina emailed to tell me she’d seen the first snowflake of the season. I don’t think she was impressed with my less-than-ecstatic response, but when you’ve experienced 28 years of snowstorms, frozen feet, chapped lips, numb fingers, blizzards in May, ice storms, cars and trucks that won’t start in cold weather, days [...]
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