You said,
"It was abnormally hot in Germany for 8 weeks - including during the World Cup."
But the Newindpress reported in:
http://newindpress.com/sports/fifa/wc2006/News.asp?Topic=414&Title=&ID=IES20060606131814&nDate=&Sub=&
"Soccer heat on but it’s cold in Germany
Tuesday June 6 2006 23:39
BERLIN: The Ecuadoreans have cold. The Angolans are shivering. Trinidad and Tobago players stuffed their hands deep in their pockets as they took the field for a friendly.
In Hamburg, about 320 kilometers to the north, even the locals are bundling up in thick wool coats and scarves.
Cool temperatures are putting the b-r-r-r in Berlin and the rest of Germany, with days to go until the World Cup starts.
‘‘It’s supposed to be hot here this time of year,’’ Angola defender Luis Delgado said. ‘‘Since we’ve been here, some days have been warm, but most have been cold. ... I don’t like it.’’
Germany’s average temperature in June ranges from the upper 60s F (about 20 C) in the north to the mid-70s F (mid-20s C) in the south. Hardly tropical, but downright balmy compared with the cold, rain and gloom which has settled over the country for the past two weeks. There was even some snow at the English and Dutch training camps.
On Monday, high temperatures throughout Germany hovered in the low 50s F (low 10s C), while the low in Leipzig was 37 F (3 C). There was finally some intermittent sunshine, but not enough to warm the chill in the air."
And Yahoo Sports Asia had reported:
"Soccer: Japan's World Cup squad battling cold spell in Germany
Fri, Jun 2, 10:17 PM
TOKYO : Japan's World Cup squad are battling abnormally cold weather in Germany, hitting Celtic playmaker Shunsuke Nakamura and Brazilian coach Zico the hardest...
"I'd better sweat it out. But I feel languid," Nakamura said as he worked out in the morning when the temperature was around 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), Jiji Press reported from Bonn...
It has reportedly snowed in southern Germany recently while a hailstorm has struck Bonn - weather that has been putting put Zico in a constant bad mood.
"Why is it so cold everyday?" Zico complained, according to Tokyo Sports newspaper...."
So which should I trust? Two (of several) contemporaneous "news" reports of "cold"? Or your two-month-old memory of "warmth", a "memory" that is consistent with your own "...preconceived notions"?
Hmmm...
With all due respect, the recent effort to replace the NAME of the embattled "Global Warming Theory" with a more generic (and therefore more defensible) NAME: "Climate Change Theory" is, IMHO, a rather transparent attempt to use advertising agency SPIN for damage control. Everyone knows that "climate" has changed over the ages. The consensus about that is justified. But to me, the NAME is less important than the theory of "global warming" itself.
And I believe that the recent "prediction" that "global warming" will produce "rapid swings in temperature" is as deliberately disinformational as a slogan from George Orwell: "Cooling" is "Warming"! LOL!
As always, if you have a reference that rigorously explains how one of the effects of "global warming" will be "regional cooling", I'd really like to read it. I'd be especially interested to read such a prediction from a time before the "global warming theory" became the official, politically-correct, don't-confuse-me-with-the-facts, "consensus" opinion.