It was cooler than usual here this summer and has gotten cold here faster this winter. The hottest summer we had was in 1988.
I have a letter that my great grandfather wrote in July,1864, while he was in the Union Army in Georgia, and said it was 110 degrees in the shade.
Is it hotter in Georgis than that in the summer now?
I read an article that temperature measurements are hotter because they are taken in cities which do grow hotter due to all the cement. And we all know that the Earth has been warming slowly but steadily since the last Ice Age, that 10,000 years ago the level of the oceans were rising and slowly taking out cities built on the shorelines of the Mediterranean.
To blame this all on America's present day culture is ludicrous, and may divert us from finding out what to do to adjust to the climatic vagaries of our planet.
I posted an article about precession (variations in the axis tilt of the Earth and its orbit around the sun) once, but couldn't find anyone who knew where we were in the precession cycle and how much longer the natural movement of our planet was going to last till it reached the furthest point and began tilting the other way again.
Re: what to do to adjust to the climatic vagaries of our planet.
Wear a coat when it's cold, remove it when it's warm.