Posted by Popie Jopie (Twitter) on Jan 7th 2013, 4:52 PM EST
What puzzles me is so much red colour in the Arctic. Is this correct?
It strikes me that in these kind of graphs it is always relatively warm in places where nobody lives that could tell us otherwise. The number of reporting weather stations is very limited and many temperatures on the map are said to be filled in by computers. Greenland is almost always coloured red, warmer than normal. A number of years ago Paul K. Driessen went to the inside of Greenland during the winter, he found out that the temperature was minus 50 degrees Celsius inside his tent and minus 75 degrees outside. It was not an official measurement of temperature, so the Northern Hemisphere cold records of Ojmjakon and Verkhoyansk are not broken. But I believe Paul Driessen, he lost a few toes because of the cold.
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It strikes me that in these kind of graphs it is always relatively warm in places where nobody lives that could tell us otherwise. The number of reporting weather stations is very limited and many temperatures on the map are said to be filled in by computers. Greenland is almost always coloured red, warmer than normal. A number of years ago Paul K. Driessen went to the inside of Greenland during the winter, he found out that the temperature was minus 50 degrees Celsius inside his tent and minus 75 degrees outside. It was not an official measurement of temperature, so the Northern Hemisphere cold records of Ojmjakon and Verkhoyansk are not broken. But I believe Paul Driessen, he lost a few toes because of the cold.