Warmer Weather In Hanover – Not Global Warming
By Dan Linsalata, Richmond, Va.
Published on Wednesday, February 1, 2006
To the Editor:
In her op-ed yesterday ("The World is Getting Warmer," Jan. 31) about global warming, Tina Praprotnik '09 points to the unseasonably warm Hanover temperatures as irrefutable evidence of global warming.
While in the balance of his article, she thoughtfully regurgitates the same tired arguments that point to global warming, her introduction, quite frankly, wrecks her credibility.
It is very difficult to claim that Hanover is consistently warming when those of us who are not experiencing our first winter here will fondly remember that, for the last several years, a warm day in January would be one in which the mercury topped minus 10 by 3 p.m., and hopefully we would be into the teens by Carnival.
In this instance, one warm season is an anomaly, hardly the concrete foundations of an argument such as Ms. Praprotnik's. Yet one more reason why freshmen are meant to be seen and not heard.