Another dopey story on our Planetary Emergency, this one via AP:

Every fall, Marilyn Krom tries to make a trip to Vermont to see its famously beautiful fall foliage. This year, she noticed something different about the autumn leaves. “They’re duller, not as sparkly, if you know what I mean,” Krom, 62, a registered nurse from Eastford, Conn., said during a recent visit. “They’re less vivid.” Other “leaf peepers” are noticing, too, and some believe climate change could be the reason…

University of Vermont plant biologist Tom Vogelmann, a Vermont native…says autumn has become too warm to elicit New England’s richest colors.According to the National Weather Service, temperatures in Burlington have run above the 30-year averages in every September and October for the past four years, save for October 2004, when they were 0.2 degrees below average.

So let’s get this straight. For the past 4 years in Vermont, or in some parts of Vermont, temperatures were above their 30 year average (why 30 years?) in September and October — except that they weren’t. Temperatures were lower than their 30 year average in 2004. And they were no doubt lower in 2002, or else the scare claim would have been about the past 5 years. So it would appear in reality that temperatures have been above their average about half the time in recent years, and below average about half the time in recent years. Isn’t that kind of what an average is all about? We don’t dispute the idea that Vermont might be warmer recently, but the MSM shouldn’t be trying to build a house out of Popsicle sticks.

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