Cob: Cob insulation idea

[Amanda Peck]

Both Japan and England have ocean tempered climates.  Minneapolis does not.

Many years ago there was a Thanksgiving skit on National Public Radio (U.S.) 
in which the pilgrims were freezing and miserable in their ship in Plymouth 
harbor. They whined to whoever had thought that New England would be good.  
That person replied, "how was I to know?  This is the same latitude as Sunny 
Italy, where we send people to recuperate from the cold in winter."  I had 
to look it up.  True.  Maybe Tuscany, but still true.  Of course Italy's 
climate is tempered by a relatively shallow body of water, lots of sun.

And remember that someone here looked up the cold indices of places in 
Europe.  What was it, parts of the coast of DENMARK rated at 8!  I live 
close to the Alabama border in Tennessee.  It's the very northern part of 7, 
but when I asked the agricultural extension agent here about that, he 
said--"don't $%##&! count on it!"   In other words, don't think you can grow 
things here that you couldn't in Nashville, a couple of hours north, and 
rated 6.

A few years ago I ran into a HEAT index.  Of course we'd rate higher on that 
than Denmark.  It's rare to have a summer without a 100 degree F. day.

Darel wrote: (snipped)
This goes without saying, that the southern parts of countries are
usually warmer than the northern parts of that same country.  Why are
you comparing the southern part of other countries to the northern
part?




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