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Reporters take email interviews and interviews with corporate officers besides CEOs all the time. Any CEO can get a media relations person to write up an email response and then ch…

OK, the piece really isn't about how pre-Julian calendars defined the seasons or how and when they may have gone off the rails. It's an argument for why [1] meteorological seasons,…

Author here. That's an interesting claim -- that the solstices and equinoxes used to fall on the first days of the month. (At least, I think that's what you're implying.) But I'm n…

A well-intentioned lie! Actually I'd call it more of an approximation. And the meteorological definition (Dec-Feb) is a better approximation of the coldest quarter than is starting…

I'm the author. (Hi!) The temperature extremes definitely do lag the solstices by around a month. That's not covered explicitly in the piece but implied when I say that the coldest…

Hi. I wrote the article. To tell you the truth, I've not (yet) found a reason why people in some places (it seems to be mainly North America and some in the UK) define seasons as b…

Pedantic follow-up to pedantic note: The solstice was at 04:48 UTC on Tuesday, which is Monday night in the Americas [23:48 in ET, 20:48 PT, etc]. Everyone's right!