Finding Your Algore Rhythm

That Algore. Man, someone should get him a Nobel Prize or something.

I look outside at all the global warming and think, “Thank God Algore is right or we’d be in a freaking ice age right now.”

It’s June. At least, that’s the rumor.

I saw this article about how this June has been the coldest on record in Chicago—seven degrees below average. So I looked up how the weather has been here in Colorado Springs. First I needed to get the baseline averages.

The average high temperature for June in Colorado Springs on the average year is 78 degrees. The average low is 51 degrees. The average mean is 65 degrees.

Incidentally, this proves that the way they calculate the average temperature is just to add the high and the low and divide by two (78 + 51 = 129; 129/2 = 64.5, which rounds to 65). I’ve checked several of the different values from many different places and have gotten this same result. Thus, “average temperature” is a big pile of penguin poo (that’s a shout out to my mom’s blog, for reasons she will know even if you don’t!). Just to give you a radical example of why such an average is pointless, if you had a high of 80 and a low of 70, the average temperature would be 75. But if you had a high of 150 and a low of 0, you’d also have an average temperature of 75. Something tells me these two days are radically different from each other and as such, saying they have the same average temperature is (as reported earlier) a big pile of penguin poo.

Moving on.

Now it’s time to look at what this current June has been doing. Thus far in June 2009, the average high temperature has been 69 degrees. The average low has been 48 degrees. The average has, you guessed it, been 59 degrees.

78 – 69 = 9 degrees cooler than our average high so far this month.
51 – 48 = 3 degrees cooler than our average low so far this month.
65 – 59 = 6 degrees cooler than our average mean so far this month.

Let’s use the 6 degrees because…well, why not? Gotta use something. And Algore doesn’t tell me how he picks the numbers he uses so he can lump it.

6 degrees Fahrenheit = 3.3 degrees Celsius.

Global Warming is supposed to = doom because of a rise of….1.6 degrees C.

But we’re 3.3 degrees C COLDER and THERE IS NO DOOM!

Someone get me a Nobel.