Philadelphia averaged 30F last month – fourteen degrees colder than January, 1790.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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I’m sure that’s our fault too. We had just wrapped up the war, and congress was moving between different cities in the area, causing increased horse flatulence. Old white people again.
1790 is the year accepted as the starting date of the Dalton Minimum when solar activity dropped off significantly.
Congress settled in Philadelphia in 1790, and I’m sure they legislated the mild weather away.
How different things would be if DC has been allowed to remain a malarial swamp with no AC? That is the way it was when it was first established as the Capital. Congress would take off and be out of town the whole summer back then.
Hey Rah, isn’t it still a malarial swamp? I mean, all the evidence points that way. It continues to breed pestilence and spread its diseased miasma across the countryside via
politiciansbureaucratsinhuman bloodsucking insects causing widespread malaise, misery, sickness and death. The cold air helps minimize the stench… but the rot’s still there.Niel, you left out bubonic plague, furuncles, boils and carbuncles.
There was a time when a serious discussion was had about moving the nation’s capitol to a more centralized location. I used to occasionally pass through a little ghost town called ‘America’ in Illinois, down near Cairo. There is a little historic marker commemorating the once future site of the US capitol, and little else. It made perfect sense to move there in the 19th century, when that was a major confluence of riverboat traffic. Cairo was expected to be bigger than Chicago.
The Germans have this new heating system for your home.
Maybe it can help in Philly.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530072.800-the-computer-that-crunches-cloud-data-to-heat-your-home.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2014-GLOBAL-twitter#.VNJPZS7gPIV
Those thermometers need some adjusting. Quick! Call Gavin.