{"id":1112,"date":"2008-01-06T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2008-02-26T18:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T18:02:51","slug":"an-inconvenient-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/06\/an-inconvenient-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inconvenient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took this picture a few minutes ago. This is my front sidewalk. In a way, it is a remarkable image. What you see is water between the snow banks. This is January 6 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. According to the Weather Underground<\/a>, the average high for the day is 15. The temperature at 3 today was 41. My little story would have been more spectacular if this was an all-time record, but alas this was not the case. In 1990, it made it to 43. I was here for that day as well.<\/p>\n

I purchased An Inconvenient Truth<\/a> from the iTunes music store before Christmas. I own an iPod Touch and the plan was to watch the movie while on the road over break. I finally watched most of the movie today while I worked out. This documentary is very compelling and I highly recommend it. I would like to say it was enough to get me to move from the powered elliptical to a self powered stationary bike, but this would not be true. I have written on the topic of this documentary before<\/a>, but each time I am exposed to the information I feel the need to comment again (see this TED talk<\/a>). I guess it was the connection between the content of the documentary and the view out the window of the health club that prompted this post.<\/p>\n

Of course, any single event offers little proof of a trend. However, it seems to me that I have experienced a large number of record temperatures. The data are there. As I looked for the records for the day (43, -31), it occurred to me that student projects might be derived from these data. For example, I wonder how many record temperatures were set in the past 5 years.<\/p>\n

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