Comments on: Lunar Calendar Means Cool Olympic Weather

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:23:05 +0000

Hehe:

Please read the quote. It is not my term, it is his. As for when fall starts, I deferred to Mr. Guo’s knowledge. Not exactly sure which point you are challenging. I would be happy to explain myself if you are more specific.

You also seem to be missing the bigger picture: Mr. Guo is arguing that things will get cooler beginning on August 7th because of the Chinese lunar calendar. This appears to be wishful thinking.

By: Hehe

Hehe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:49:23 +0000

Josh,

Have a study of the Chinese Lunar Calendar a little bit before making a speech please. In fact, your term “lunar calendar” is half right, half wrong.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:15:10 +0000

Right! Because the IOC chose 8-8-08. They always have the Olympics in August–except that Syndey was September. And Beijing is beautiful in September.

DOH!

By: Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:04:04 +0000

i know this is all in fun, but shouldn’t we all recognize that when dealing with the lunar calendar one should use the lunar year? with 2008 starting on [solar time] february 7 the eighth lunar month will start in the waining days of august and conclude in late september when even the memories of the olympics will start to have melted from the mind. and, i think everyone will agree that the seventh lunar month is VERY HOT and HUMID in beijing. the problem is the barbarians use of their calendar has THE GAMES occurring a month before they rightfully should. can’t blame the chinese authorities for that!!

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:24:37 +0000

Pappi,
Touche, you got me there! Three sides to every story (not the Extreme album I’m talking about!).
Hal (the ‘H’ is silent)

By: Pappi

Pappi — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:15:52 +0000

Wouldn’t ignoring inconvenient data be the Bush method?

By: Hal Gore

Hal Gore — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:12:14 +0000

After looking at the link Charles posted, I dug a little further. Here is a list of temps at 8:00 p.m (sorry they didn’t have 8:08), and the high temps for the day for the last few years (in F and C).

2002
High 84.2/29.0
20:00 75.2/24.0

2003
High 75.2/24.0
20:00 71.6/22.4

2004
High 92/33
20:00 87/30

2005
High 84.2/29
20:00 82.4/

2006
High 90/32
20:00 85/30

2007
High 93.2/33.2
20:00 86/30

Using my Gore methodology, and you toss out 2004 because it doesn’t fit into what I want, you can clearly see there is an alarming rise in the temperatures when you look at the years 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007. Based on this and applying the ‘hockey stick’ graphing techniques, the latest Gore model suggests that on August 8, 2008, the high should be 97/35.8 and 20:00 should be around 92/33.

Aside: Shouldn’t the Olympics start at 08:08, and not 20:08? Also: using my own methodology and the correct tones for ba and ling, my dictionary roughly translates 8/8/08 into Bar/Bar/Quick/Bar (and make mine a Yanjing Draft, please!!)

(disclaimer: I did not factor in when ‘fall’ started in the previous years, but with global warming, it must be later and later every year before the temps must drop off, so it should reinforce my points.)

Thank you,
Hal Gore (the ‘H’ is silent)

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:41:25 +0000

here are beijing’s temps from last august (scroll down to the calendar view)

http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/ZBAA/2007/8/8/MonthlyHistory.html

By: syz

syz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:23:42 +0000

I’m disgusted that you’ve brought your occidental prejudices to this analysis. What does a Westerner know about August, anyway? Your naïve notions of time and season cannot hold a straw to the infinity of the lunar calendar. And what temperature scale do you think we’re using here? Surely you don’t think that (Western hegemonizing) centigrade is the only legitimate measuring system out there. You’re just part of the objectivity-enamored, actual-record-loving, fact-fetishizing violent yellow mob that is focused on putting China in a box and closing the lid. I’ll match your bet and raise you ten-thousand-fold. When it’s snowing this August, we’ll see who laughs last.