{"id":165,"date":"2009-01-19T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-01-19T18:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T03:57:57","slug":"global-weirding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Global Weirding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice deep freeze (especially up in interior Alaska!) brought in 2009.  In Juneau, we got 50+ inches of snow in the first 12 days of the year!  The low temp for a few days was -10F.  Then, yesterday (Jan 18) the thermometer went above 60F!!  The airport temp (official recording spot) was 53F, a new record.  Here&#8217;s the pictorial history of our back porch for the 12\/26\/2008 &#8211; 1\/4\/2009.  Thanks to Bob &#038; Jaye for the idea of taking the pictures!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"267\" data=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmatt.heavner%2Falbumid%2F5293198257723254065%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The global weirding is from Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;Hot, Flat, and Crowded&#8221; which I&#8217;m reading after &#8220;The World is Flat&#8221; for our book group.  It has interesting ideas (such as that global warming is much too simplistic a term&#8211;the prediction of more extremes, an acceleration of the hydrologic cycle, etc&#8211;who would believe that?!? :).  But it also has some ridiculous prose and analysis, which is appropriately (and very well!) mocked at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice deep freeze (especially up in interior Alaska!) brought in 2009. In Juneau, we got 50+ inches of snow in the first 12 days of the year! The low temp for a few days was -10F. Then, yesterday (Jan 18) the thermometer went above 60F!! The airport temp (official recording spot) was 53F, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Global Weirding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}