Daily Archives: July 15, 2018

It has been twenty years since France won the World Cup. Fifteen years ago, France was  just about to enter a heat wave which killed thousands of people.  I was freezing on the beach at Christchurch, England during early July … Continue reading →

A recent meeting of climate experts in Bonn, West Germany, produced the unanimous conclusion that the change in global weather patterns poses a severe threat to agriculture that could lead to major crop failures and mass starvation. Climate Changes Endanger … Continue reading →

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. George Orwell Last year, all of our usual fake news sources were touting the Petermann glacier in Greenland as a poster child for climate … Continue reading →

Just back from an evening ride to NCAR, and met a few friends along the way. I’m trying to figure out what to do with this guy, who seems to have gotten himself into a bind.

On July 15, 1936 the average maximum temperature around the US was 96 degrees. It was 118 degrees in Missouri, 115 in Kansas, 114 in Oklahoma, 113 in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and South Dakota, and 111 in Minnesota and Kentucky,