OK. I give up. All buildings in Berkeley need air conditioning. 93 degrees Fahrenheit in my office on October 28 is just too much, even if it is a dry heat.
The frightening thing is that on October 28 the sun doesn't even get 45 degrees above the horizon at noon. How can such a feeble star produce such heat?
Posted by DeLong at October 29, 2003 11:29 AM | TrackBack
Consider that the 'solar constant' (power received from the sun at the earth) is well over a kilowatt per square meter-- and this power density is deposited over the whole surface of a sphere whose radius is the distance from the sun to the earth-- not so feeble.
Posted by: Matt on October 29, 2003 03:35 PMChecking www.cnn.com/weather, it said Oakland temps in the mid-70's. I know Berkeley weather can differ a little, but I'm wondering if the Donald Luskin 'truth squad' is trying some heat enhancing things in the Berkeley area just so he can have an attack on Paul Krugman that does not get so quickly hammered on this webcite. Just hope things in Berkeley cool down as I hope these LA fires don't strike my neighborhood. Stay cool.
Posted by: Harold McClure on October 29, 2003 04:04 PMGoodness, it does seem to be getting warmer every year. I have to keep the air-conditioning full on in the Hummer all the time.
Posted by: James on October 30, 2003 12:31 AMBrad, if you wanna work someplace cooler, I'm sure the University of Illinois economics department would love to have you - the high temp here on Oct 28th was a brisk 46°F.
Posted by: The Squire on October 30, 2003 03:08 AMOr is it global warming at work?
Cassandras warned us for 30 years that CFCs would cause holes in the ozone layer... and there is a hole in the ozone layer.
Other Cassandras now warn us that the global average temperature is rising, and could be 6.5 degrees centigrade higher than it is now by the middle of the 21st century.
Which would give Northern California the climate of southern California, at the very least...
Posted by: John on November 1, 2003 10:18 AMOr is it global warming at work?
Cassandras warned us for 30 years that CFCs would cause holes in the ozone layer... and there is a hole in the ozone layer.
Other Cassandras now warn us that the global average temperature is rising, and could be 6.5 degrees centigrade higher than it is now by the middle of the 21st century.
Which would give Northern California the climate of southern California, at the very least...
Posted by: John on November 1, 2003 10:23 AM