Monthly Archives: August 2013

Global warming already having dramatic impacts in California, new report says Rising ocean waters. Bigger and more frequent forest fires. More brutally hot summer days. These aren’t the usual predictions about global warming based on computer forecasts. They’re changes already … Continue reading →

the Department of Housing and Urban Development is imposing a new rule that would allow the feds to track diversity in America’s neighborhoods and then push policies to change those it deems discriminatory. Obama administration using housing department to compel … Continue reading →

Obama has spent 30% more per year than Bush’s largest budget, but complains that Republicans won’t give him the money he needs to deepen the Gulf Coast port of Charleston, S.C. It isn’t clear to me why he wants to … Continue reading →

The Washington DC based US Drought Monitor is out for the week, and shows northeastern New Mexico as “Exceptional Drought.” Regional Drought Monitor: West Yesterday, the National Weather Service said that the ground in northeastern New Mexico was saturated, and … Continue reading →

Twitter / russbynum: Actually, Obama mentioned the … [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws]

Images from Lock and Dam 25, Mississippi River

On August 9, 1930 every station in Al Gore’s home state was over 100 degrees, including 110 degrees at Dickson and Jackson. The forecast for Dickson today is 86 degrees, which is 24 degrees cooler than 1930.

Three officers turned up at the home of Sir Benjamin Slade after a member of the public reported that they felt threatened by the image, which appeared in The Telegraph, of him dressed in camouflage and holding a semi-automatic rifle. … Continue reading →

Arctic ice area has increased by almost 20,000 Manhattans from this date last year, making it the second largest increase on record. The only year which gained more ice was 1996. In a few days, it is likely that 2013 … Continue reading →

You know, the Panama Canal is being widened so that the big supertankers can come in. Now, that’ll be finished in 2015. If we deepen our ports all along the Gulf, places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, … Continue reading →