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The 蜜桃恋人 Temperature Roller Coaster

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It鈥檚 always a trip to follow the ups and downs of world temperatures. Here is a glimpse of weather history highs and lows鈥攁nd so called 鈥減redictions.鈥

1895: 鈥淕eologists think that the world may be frozen up again.鈥 

             鈥揟he New York Times

1912: 鈥淭he human race will have to fight for its existence against cold.鈥 鈥揕os Angeles Times

1912: Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks. 鈥淎n ice age is encroaching.鈥 鈥揟he New York Times

1923: 鈥淭he Ice Age Is Coming Here鈥 鈥揟he Washington Post

1923: 鈥淪cientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada and Parts of Europe and Asia, and Switzerland Would Be Entirely Obliterated鈥 

                鈥揅hicago Tribune

1930s: Searing heat and drought turn the nation鈥檚 midsection into a 鈥淒ust Bowl.鈥

1933: 鈥淎merica is in longest warm spell since 1776, with temperatures in a 25-year rise.鈥 

                鈥揟he New York Times

1939: 鈥… weathermen have no doubt that the world, at least for the time being, is growing warmer.鈥

               鈥TIME

1951: Receding permafrost in Russia is reported as proof that the planet is warming.

1952: Melting glaciers are the trump card of global warming. 

              鈥揟he New York Times

1960s: Brutal cold prevails worldwide.

1970s: The chill continues. TIME and Newsweek magazines report on the coming ice age.

1974: Climatologists forecast crop failures and starvation due to global cooling.

1976鈥79: The United States and many other parts of the Western Hemisphere experience the coldest contiguous winters on record.

1979: 鈥淧lan for the Study of Dome Over Town Is Approved鈥 [Winooski, Vermont; to protect the city from cold] 鈥揟he New York Times

1980: A brutal summer heat wave occurs in much of the United States. (Residents of Winooski realize that they would have fried to death under a dome.)

1980鈥2000: Temperatures rise globally, interrupted only by the cooling effects of major volcanic eruptions: El Chich贸n in Mexico (1982) and Pinatubo in the Philippines (1991).

1988: Record heat and drought in the eastern and central United States cause over $40 billion in crop losses.

1991: 鈥淰olcano鈥檚 Eruption in Philippines May Counteract Global Warming鈥 鈥揟he New York Times

1997鈥98: A super El Ni帽o results in the warmest temperatures on record worldwide.

1998: 鈥淓arth Temperature in 1998 Is Reported at Record High鈥 鈥揟he New York Times

2007: A bitter cold spell sweeps across the Southern Hemisphere, as Australia records its coldest June ever and Chile experiences its toughest winter in 50 years. Johannesburg, South Africa, gets its first significant snow in a half-century. Despite the bitter cold throughout much of the Southern Hemisphere, NASA expert James Hansen declares 2007 the second-warmest year in a century.

2007: 鈥淔irst Major Snow in Buenos Aires Since 1918鈥 

           鈥揑nternational Herald Tribune

2008: 鈥淪now Day in Baghdad鈥 

           鈥揑nternational Herald Tribune

2008: The coldest weather since 1964 hits the Middle East, while China experiences unusually heavy snow and freezing temperatures.

2009: NOAA reports the 2000鈥2009 decade as warmest on record.

2010: Snow has to be trucked in for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. Lowest volume of Arctic ice on record.

2010: 鈥淪nowmageddon鈥 buries Philadelphia and Baltimore. 

2010: Russian heat wave kills 55,000.

2014鈥15: Globally, December鈥 February is the warmest on record since 1880. 

2016: January is the warmest January ever recorded.

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