One hundred years ago this week, Death Valley California experienced the hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. July 8-14, 1913 recorded temperatures of 128, 129, 134, 129, 130, 131 and 127.
According to NASA’s crack global warming team, 1913 was one of the coldest years in Earth history.
Flagstaff, Arizona has had 2.5 inches of rain so far in July, with several more inches in the forecast.
It has been almost exactly two years since Joe Romm declared the beginning of the southwest permanent drought.
Sea ice area is above normal in the Beaufort Sea, and unprecedented below freezing temperatures are forecast for most of the rest of the July.
Children just won’t know what Arctic alarmism is.
The main bill in Oregon’s Legislature to address global warming is coming down to the wire.
Senate Bill 488 would lift a 2015 sunset date for Oregon’s “clean fuel” program, which aims to cut the carbon in car and truck fuel 10 percent a gallon by 2025.
Oregon Legislature’s top global warming bill sits on shaky ground | OregonLive.com
Islamic extremists have killed 29 students and one teacher in an attack on a boarding school in north-east Nigeria.
Survivors being treated for burn and gunshots wounds say some students were burned alive in the pre-dawn attack on Government secondary school in Mamudo town, Yobe state, on Saturday.
Crying over the bodies of his two boys, farmer Malam Abdullahi swore he would withdraw his three remaining sons from a nearby school. He said there was no protection for students despite the deployment of thousands of troops since the government declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states in mid-May due to attacks by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Dozens of schools have been torched and scores of students killed among more than 1,600 victims slain by extremists since 2010.
Nigerian students burned alive in extremist attack | World news | guardian.co.uk
According to the WMO, the rate of sea level rise doubled right when sea level monitoring satellites went up.
Sea levels rose at 3 millimeters (0.12 inch) a year, almost double the 20th-century rate of 1.6 millimeters a year.
UN Charts ‘Unprecedented’ Global Warming Since 2000 – Bloomberg
This indicates one of several possibilities :
Here is the tide gauge data for Hoek Van Holland, which has a continuous record going back 150 years. The rate of sea level rise there has been steady 2.4 mm/year for the entire period from 1864-2012.
I think we can rule possibility #1 out
Operation Fast and Furious was run out of an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives field office in Arizona. The plan was to sell guns to buyers and trace them in the black market as the crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, with the expectation they would lead federal officials to drug cartel leaders.
However, hundreds of guns were lost in the operation. And roughly 210 people have either been killed or wounded by them, according to Mexican officials.
Report: Two more killings traced to missing Fast & Furious guns | Fox News
Witnesses said they heard a loud noise, saw the tail came apart from the plane, and then watched as a fireball and cloud of black smoke shot into the sky, visible for miles.
“The plane started coming in at an odd angle, there was a huge bang and you could see the cloud of huge black smoke,” observed Kate Belding, who was jogging near the airport at the time of the crash.
Korean Passenger Plane Crashes At SFO; 2 Dead, 182 Injured « CBS San Francisco
SAO PAULO (AP) — Police say enraged spectators invaded a football field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body after he stabbed a player to death.
The Public Safety Department of the state of Maranhao says in a statement that it all started when referee Otavio da Silva expelled player Josenir Abreu from a game last weekend. The two got into a fist fight, then Silva took out a knife and stabbed Abreu, who died on his way to the hospital.
The statement issued this week says Abreu’s friends and relatives immediately “rushed into the field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body.”
Local news media say the spectators also decapitated Silva and stuck his head on a stake in the middle of the field.
Soccer referee decapitated after stabbing player to death in Brazil
McCain acknowledged that he thought “long and hard”
McCain: After thinking ‘long and hard,’ US should suspend aid to Egypt | Fox News
This surprises me, because he has shown little sign of brain activity over the last five years.
