Daily Archives: July 21, 2017

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” George Orwell  1984 The EPA has this graph on their website, showing that the worst US heatwaves (by far) occurred during the … Continue reading →

National Geographic published this map of Arctic sea ice extent in 1971 ARCTIC OCEAN This map is current sea ice extent. N_daily_extent.png (420×500) I overlaid the images at the same scale. The 1971 edge is shown in brown. The current … Continue reading →

On this date in 1934, Gallipolis, Ohio reached 113 degrees. Ohio’s hottest temperature on record.

On July 21, 1930 Millsboro, Delaware reached 110 degrees – Delaware’s highest temperature on record.