WW2 was legendary for its brutal winters (similar to WW1 in that respect). The 1940s were the last time NYC reached a temperature lower than -2 (it was -6 in February 1943).
I was wondering why Pinatubo didn't give us the crazy cold that was predicted. Maybe volcanoes influence summer weather more than winter winter? 1992 did have a very cool summer.
He's not a bad guy but his opinion that we would be better off without air conditioning because we would then take climate change more seriously is a dubious one at best.
I would contend that the largest climate change difference between decades was between the 1940s and 1950s.
The modern climate started in the 1950s, which was a much warmer decade than anything we had previously.
cold water in May serves zero purpose, I wouldn't mind artificially heating the oceans to 70 degrees at the start of May. That would end the cut off problem too. Instead of 50s with rain, we'd have 70s with rain.
He thinks the data on very hot summers of the past is fraudulent.
He said 1993 wasn't that hot and the weather stations had a hot bias with any data from 1995 and prior.
I lived through 1993, I knew exactly how hot it was lol.
But if -10 arctic outbreaks that lasted an entire month are few and far between wouldn't that make the -10 monthly departure at NYC in February 2015 even more historic?