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The National Park Service has a new team member this summer in Yellowstone National Park, keeping an eye out for wildfires. Mount Washburn – Southern View Webcam (U.S. National Park Service) Meanwhile, my research assistants study the permanent drought in … Continue reading →

The Union of Concerned Scientists have a new report out warning that the Midwest is getting hot, and a lot of people are going to die in the heat unless we reduce CO2 emissions. The report is titled “60 Years … Continue reading →

Al Gore, Sundance’s Leading Man <span class=”bankhead”>’An Inconvenient Truth’ Documents His Efforts To Raise Alarm on Effects of Global Warming</span> – The Washington Post Signs of the apocalypse are everywhere, like six times normal snowpack here in Colorado. Upper Colorado … Continue reading →

On June 7, 1933 there was a spectacular heatwave in the eastern half of the country. The average maximum temperature in the Midwest was 93 degrees, and more than half of the Midwest was above 95F (35C.) Chicago was 100 … Continue reading →