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Colorado’s accidental climatologist taps 52 years of daily winter weather reports to confirm a troubling trend (coloradosun.com)

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From his remote cabin in the once snowier hinterlands above Gothic, billy barr tracks decades of warming, snow-starved winters

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why is the man's name not capitalised anywhere in the article?

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

says barr, who writes his name in lowercase letters “just because I’m not that important.”

It seems the author is replicating his personal style/preference.

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[–] modus@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I see it just the same as spelling someone's name correctly. It's their name, they get to say how its written.

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

Read over that in the article, thanks!

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