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Steve Heimoff: “Global warming? The cold summer of 2010 continues”

How to account for such schizoid reports? According to the first article, although the summer of 2010 hasn’t set a record for cold, it’s been one of the chilliest and most persistently foggy in years, contrasting “sharply with record heat on the East Coast.”

According to the second article, “The past decade was the [world’s] warmest on record” and “Scientific evidence that the world is getting warmer is ‘unmistakable,’ according to…the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.” So, despite the numbskull Tea Party allegations of “Climategate” and know-nothing denialism, the evidence “all point[s] to the same conclusion: Our planet is warming.”

I have written about the cold weather along the California coast for years now on this blog, but even before I started doing so, I was noting, in the vintage diary I keep every year for my reports in Wine Enthusiast, how chilly things have gotten since the notoriously hot summer and fall of 2004. The years 2005-2009, inclusive, all seemed colder to me than any I’d experienced since arriving here in 1978; and now, here we go again. I’ve written here how cold and wet our 2010 “spring” was — a “spring” that never happened until things warmed up, Read More...

Steve Heimoff: Why I taste at 5 p.m., not 8 a.m.

If you ask MW types when is the best time to taste wine, they say, “Early in the morning, before your palate is tired.” What, exactly, does that mean? Let’s break it down. How exactly does the palate become “tired”? Why does it do so? Is it like a muscle where, if you exercise it at the gym, it needs recovery time? If it’s so tired at night, then why do we reserve our finest foods and wines for dinner, instead of breakfast? I don’t know about you, but I drink most of my wine at night. That’s when I savor and enjoy it, see how it changes in the glass, try it with different foods. And I don’t have to worry about DUI because I’m done with driving until tomorrow. Read More...