Monthly Archives: August 2011

When the weather is cold, the US makes up only 2% of the planet. But reading Romm’s web site, we can infer that during July the eastern US occupied 90-100% of the planet – if not more. http://www.remss.com/

The New York Times wants to stabilize the climate, like the good old days. To allow the climate to stabilize requires humanity to cut its use of coal and oil by 70 percent. http://www.nytimes.com/ Maybe we could work together and … Continue reading →

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ Meeker is the closest USHCN station to Oklahoma City.

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http://www.heatisonline.org/ Drought and rain in the desert are both caused by global warming.

The last hurricane to strike the US was Ike, On September 13, 2008.  

Reader Kevin O’Neill brought this to my attention. Leading Arctic expert William Carlson said that glaciers in Norway and Alaska lost half their size during the fifty years before 1952. Had that rate of loss continued, there would have been … Continue reading →

The storm naming team is cranking them out at near record rate. http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2011/Hurricane-Atlantic-2011.htm

Texas Tech University seems to be repelling the heavy rain in New Mexico and Texas. http://www.wunderground.com/

Sixteen inches of rain in northeastern Oklahoma over the past week. The press is still busy writing about the record drought – which they expect to go on for another year or two. http://www.intellicast.com/National/Precipitation/Weekly.aspx