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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/0 ... t-records/

It’s official. This was “the warmest March on record” since records began in 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

How hot was it? It was so hot that NOAA reports “there were 15,272 warm temperature records broken (7,755 daytime records, 7,517 nighttime records).”

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It was so hot that “March heat records crushed cold records by over 35 to 1“ and top scientists and meteorologists said that global warming loaded the dice. If you prefer sports metaphors, like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace.

It was so hot that both ABC News and NBC ran excellent stories that connected the heat wave to global warming. Here is the ABC story, which spells out the health and food security “dangers” posed by “extreme climate risks”


Then there is this ...

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/0 ... -see-this/

How hot is it? It’s so hot that all-time records are being set in June: “Nashville has reached its hottest temperature on record…109 degrees at 314 pm. The previous all time record was 107 from July 27th and 28th of 1952.”

UPDATE: Meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters has more all-time heat records:


109° Columbia, SC (old record 107° on two previous occasions)
109° Cairo, IL (old record 106° on 8/9/1930)
108° Paducah, KY (ties same on 7/17/1942
106° Chattanooga, TN (ties same on 7/28/1952)
105° Raleigh, NC (ties same on 8/21/2007 and 8/18/1988)
105° Greenville, SC (old record 104° 8/10/2007 although 106° was recorded by the Signal Service in July 1887)
104° Charlotte, NC (ties same on 8/9 and 10/2007 and 9/6/1954)
102° Bristol, TN (ties same on 7/28/1952-this site now known as `Tri-State Airport’)
109° Athens, GA. This is just 1° shy of the Georgia state record for June of 110° set at Warrenton in 1959.

We're hotter than Hell ... LOL !!!

didnt i hear the head of the us petroleum consortium or whatever come right out and say basically yes there is climate change, yes emissions are the major cause, but dont worry, we are smart, we will solve the problem before it gets worse

or something like that, doesnt that mean we can now never have to argue the science again?

A Midwestern biologist compares farming there ...

Biologist On The Midwestern Drought: ‘It’s Like Farming In Hell’

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/0 ... g-in-hell/

How does one farm Hell ?

The 12-month period from July 2011 to June 2012 has been the warmest on record (since they first started keeping records, in 1895.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/0 ... 59837.html

Yes, yes, I know, it's all coincidence. So is the fact that of the 12 warmest years in recorded history, those have also been in the last 20 years.

*sigh*

I know, it's heresy to say maybe it's time to concentrate on something other than just the economy. The economy will eventually recover. But if we don't tackle the climate crisis, I'm not sure the human race will.

And I'm deadly serious about that, and I am not being alarmist.

The NASA guy said game over, in that Rolling Stone article...

I think he meant that if Keystone went thru it would mean that attitude would be the end, but we do have to focus on eliminating the republican party from having any influence what so ever on this planet otherwise the end is near...

as long as we keep applying the same solution to every problem (taxcuts, taxcredits, tax abatements, deregulation) we should be just fine

Incidentally, we tend to not look at heat waves as "disasters". They're not discrete, like a tornado, earthquake, or hurricane. They're more spread out over space and time.

However, this one has had a death toll. (As heat waves often do.)

So far, this heat wave has taken the lives of around 50+ people.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/07/ ... 341764492/

That includes 18 people in Cook County (Chicago, IL) alone.

U.S. Drought 2012: Half Of Nation's Counties Now Considered Disaster Areas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... 31393.html

ST. LOUIS — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government's list of natural disaster areas as the nation's agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's addition of the 218 counties means that more than half of all U.S. counties – 1,584 in 32 states – have been designated primary disaster areas this growing season, the vast majority of them mired in a drought that's considered the worst in decades.

Counties in Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming were included in Wednesday's announcement. The USDA uses the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor to help decide which counties to deem disaster areas, which makes farmers and ranchers eligible for federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.

To help ease the burden on the nation's farms, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday opened up 3.8 million acres of conservation land for ranchers to use for haying and grazing. Under that conservation program, farmers have been paid to take land out of production to ward against erosion and create wildlife habitat.

"The assistance announced today will help U.S. livestock producers dealing with climbing feed prices, critical shortages of hay and deteriorating pasturelands," Vilsack said.

Vilsack also said crop insurers have agreed to provide farmers facing cash-flow issues a penalty-free, 30-day grace period on premiums in 2012.

... more ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... 31393.html

Well, according to the Chamber of Commerce, yes Climate Change is occurring and we may be causing it but our bodies will adapt, i shit you not.

I dont have the link but it was in the recent RS article by McKibbon

And the head guy of Exxon admitted it but said it is an engineering issue that we will solve.

OK, so they are so greedy they will kill all life on the planet to own their 22nd home and 34th Ferrari, I get it.

Time to party folks, between the Democrats no longer being allowed to vote in America and the damage being done by this, we are shit out of luck and need to party before the real ugly starts

(I appreciate you guys and gals here, I really do...I wish we could all meet one time before)

Don't count your coal burning stove pipes before thier time, there little buddy.

Convertable, Green Energy has been developed, it's in practice and working, slow your roll there bubba Randys. It just has to be realized and sped up. It can be.

So take your rhetoric down a notch and bow to the green gods ... they exist.

If you don't believe blow hard in the wind towards a wind turbine, oh wait the sea winds do that for you, oh shine your ass on a silicon wafer ... oh wait solar does that.

Think about it. Your are a cog, in the machine, where do you fit? What's your effective ROR?

Are you a Neg Sum or a Pos Sum?

the koch guy that now admits it is happening is promoting more fracking, guess who is in natural gas?

Tell these fish to adapt to the Temprature Rises ... all 40,000 that Died !!!

Our bodies will adapt ... Better Move your butt to Alaska there Mr. Chamber of Commerce little buddy!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... d%3D188632

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees.

About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they've seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species.

So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcasses clogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering water levels to the point that the station had to shut down one of its generators.

"It's something I've never seen in my career, and I've been here for more than 17 years," said Mark Flammang, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "I think what we're mainly dealing with here are the extremely low flows and this unparalleled heat."

The fish are victims of one of the driest and warmest summers in history. The federal U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states are experiencing some form of drought, and the Department of Agriculture has declared more than half of the nation's counties — nearly 1,600 in 32 states — as natural disaster areas. More than 3,000 heat records were broken over the last month.

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What do you think this does to the Life Cycle?