Monthly Archives: July 2011

Year to date temperatures in the US have been right at the 1895-2011 mean of 48.5 degrees. Fifty years were hotter, including 1934 – which was 2.5 degrees warmer. 1925 was 1.5 degrees warmer, and 1911 was more than one … Continue reading →

1911 was one of the hottest years in history. It also had record cold. Margaret writes: Her mother had a cousin living in Niagara Falls that year.  She told the family that she and her neighbors woke up in the … Continue reading →

Million dollar drop as wine tumbles IT was certainly an expensive drop – more than $1 million worth of shiraz wine has gone down the drain after it was dropped by a malfunctioning forklift. The 462 cases of 2010 Mollydooker … Continue reading →

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Cold Spell Damages Crops, Causes Deaths Posted: Nate on Jul 21 | Environment, Health An influx of cold polar air in the last week has produced record low temperatures throughout Bolivia and severely damaged crops in least five departments of … Continue reading →

They want to guarantee that private sector unemployment collapses into a full-scale depression – by shipping  jobs overseas. Barbara Mikulski, Democratic senator from Maryland, best captured the turn of events in the critical US debt talks. After emerging from a … Continue reading →

After Obama and the Democratic Congress increased the debt by 50% in just three years, Obama is angry that Republicans haven’t fixed it – during six months of Obama blocking them from doing anything which could help. This is what … Continue reading →

The videos below show all thicknesses and 2+ metre thickness ice. Note that ice loss has stalled over the last few days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOq0oFXgBk] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fBQE6etEH8] If I were going to make a September forecast, I would base it on the image … Continue reading →

Central Siberia has been receiving blasts of cold this summer, which has inhibited melting of ice in the East Siberian Sea. This has caused a slowdown of ice loss over the last 10 days.

The Norwegian shooter stood on a rock for two hours and gunned down children while the adults stood by helplessly. In Switzerland, ownership of a rifle by adults is essentially mandatory. His reign of terror (using illegal weapons) would have … Continue reading →