Post Carbon Fellow John Kaufmann’s response to Gordon Fulk’s op-ed on climate change was published at the Oregonian.

From the post:

I would like to challenge Gordon Fulks’ March 16 op-ed claiming that regional temperatures have declined and dismissing global warming. That defies both my knowledge of the subject and what I have observed over the past 35 years.

I don’t know where Fulks found his information. I could not find any such conclusion from NOAA. So I looked at 65 years of data from NOAA for Portland and found that the average annual temperature has climbed two degrees Fahrenheit since the 1950s. In addition, the number of days above 90 degrees has increased steadily from about seven days per year in the 1950s to 15 days annually over the last decade, and days below freezing have declined from about 45 days to 30 days. Salem has climbed more than one degree, mostly since the 1980s.

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