Dr. Jeff Masters, July 30, 2010
Director of Meteorology, Weather Underground
At 4pm local time today in Moscow, Russia, the temperature surpassed 100°F for the first time in recorded history. The high temperature of 100.8°F (37.8°C) recorded at the Moscow Observatory, the official weather location for Moscow, beat Moscow's previous record of 99.5°F (37.5°C), set just three days ago, on July 26. Prior to 2010, Moscow's hottest temperature of all-time was 36.6°C (98.2°F), set in August, 1920. Records in Moscow go back to 1879. Baltschug, another official downtown Moscow weather site, hit an astonishing 102.2°F (39.0°C) today. Finland also rec...
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Dr. Ricky Rood, July 30, 2010
Professor, University of Michigan
Temperature (1) – from a personal perspective Every now and then I get a long letter from a reader who tells a personal and passionate story of why they are skeptical that the Earth is warming and that we can attribute that warming to man. Sometimes the letters convey a thread through an entire career – a whole life. They are doubtful. They might convey disbelief that we, as a species, are able to cause climate change – or disbelief that we can measure and understand climate change because it is complex. Sometimes they convey belief – perhaps, belief that there i...
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