We’ve all seen the wackos links sports to climate doom, often specifically, but, this is the first time I’ve seen March Madness included, and it comes from doomy Warmist Marshall Shepherd, of course
Lessons From A March Madness Game About Climate Change
The Georgia Lady Bulldogs lost to the Virginia Cavaliers in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament on Saturday. The Iowa Hawkeyes, the home team, also beat the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights in the second game. Beyond the basketball game itself, something else caught my eye about the games yesterday. By the end of the Georgia -Virginia game, the court temperature was above 80 degrees Fahreheit. The commentators remarked several times about the heat, and it was clear that coaches, players, and fans were also impacted. There is a lesson in plain view from this game.
Is the lesson that perhaps the stadium in Iowa City should have some air conditioning if it going to host games at this time of year?
Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa does not have air conditioning, yet a heatwave gripping much of the United States sent temperatures into the eighties yesterday. Before you scoff at the fact that the arena does not have air conditioing, consider this. “Per U.S. Climate Data, the average temperature in Iowa City in March is 48 degrees,” reported CBS News. The same report went on to say, “It got up to 84 degrees on Saturday, which broke the city’s previous record high for March 21 of 78 degrees.”
Interesting, because the actual previous high temperature was 84F in 1938. Took 2 minutes to find that.
Iowa star Ava Heiden, who scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Hawkeyes to victory, downplayed the conditions.
“We practice in that gym in the summer in the full Carver heat, so I think we’re used to it for the most part,” Heiden said. “It was just a little early-summer feel for us.”
They’re athletes. Things are fine. But, it’s Still Your Fault.
BTW, how did all the teams travel there? And the broadcasters? All the fans?
The actual high temp in the city according to your cute eas set at 91 degrees this year. 7 degrees above the 1938 temp.
The INSIDE temp was 84 degrees equal to the old outside temps but 7 F below the current record set this year
Your accusation is false .Again
Why is the Earth still getting hotter at An increasing rate?
Johnny-an increasing rate compared to what?
Iowa SHOULD have put AC in. The year that it was built was 1984 and President Ronald Reagan earned all of us including Teach that the burning of fossil fuels was going to increase the Earths temps. They probably figured that if the outside temp record was that 84 F that they could live with an inside temp 7 degrees under without AC.
Teach’s link to “prove” that the hottest day was really Mar 21 1938 “proves” him wrong. Hoist with his own petard!!
Iowa City March 21 Weather Records
Daily averages and all-time records for weather in Iowa City, Iowa for the date of March 21.
March 21 All-Time Records
1893–2026
Highest temperature 91 °F 2026
There is no need for Teach to lie.
We all know that it’s warming, and we had a March heat wave that set hundreds of daily records. We had a record high here yesterday.
Yes, the arena will have to install A/C because of global warming.
It’s called adapting. And no, adapting will not be cheap.
But, but, but, I thought that air conditioning was bad for Mother Gaia!
Yesterday’s high was 86.1º F at Old Creekmore Farm — I found that name for our place in the 1904 Estill County deed book — and it was still 78.4º F at midnight, but we woke up to 48.0º at 7:00 AM this morning, with a high in the mid fifties forecast. I want my global warming back!
But, but, but Mr Dana now denies not just global warming but even adapting to global warming!! Air conditioning IS adapting to warming, duh. What he conveniently ignores is that A/C is not the issue – the electrical supply is! Burning coal and natural gas adds CO2 to the atmosphere which is causing global warming. Nucular, wind, solar, hydro adds an order of magnitude less greenhouse gas.
The good people of Europe survive nicely emitting less than 50% the CO2 as we Americans. If the U.S. had emitted half as much CO2 over the years, global warming would not be quite the problem it is now, and in the future.
Does Mr Dana understand that CO2 traps heat?
Here in St Louis we had 92ºF last night but 36ºF this morning!!
Mr Dana will have his global warming back in spades soon enough!!
Oh, my-some record temps! I don’t recall that ever happening before..
“Adding CO2 to the air causing global warming”. No, allegedly causing global warming