Across the United States, extreme heat has claimed the lives of at least 60 people
The point of the story is that global warming is causing a record number of heat records and deaths. As usual, PBS has not done their homework. During the third week of July, 1936 – 12,000 died from the heat in one week.
Climate change could bring flooding throughout Fort Lauderdale in next century
By Scott Wyman August 23, 2011 03:33 PM
FORT LAUDERDALE The city that calls itself the Venice of America will become increasingly like its namesake as sea levels rise over the coming decades, experts predict.More and more residents will find their neighborhoods and streets flooded, environmental officials warned city commissioners Tuesday. Low-lying areas like posh Las Olas Isles will experience the brunt first, but much of the eastern portion of the city as well as downtown will be affected within the next century.
Environmental agencies project the ocean will rise in the region between 2 and 5 feet by 2100 as a result of global climate change.
Sea level has scarcely changed in Miami this millennium.
Rick Perry made some bold and largely correct comments about the global warming scam this week, but it seems that his staff has provided him no facts to back them up. He is going to get beaten to a pulp – unless his staff gets on the ball immediately.
Despite Rick Perry, consensus on climate change keeps strengthening
Over the past few days, fact-checkers have been kept busy debunking this statement from Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), on why he doesn’t believe that humans are heating the planet: “I think we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.”
“I certainly don’t think that praying will hurt. My concern is that the governor has no Plan B. If praying doesn’t work, what then? If we don’t start taking reasonable steps to protect ourselves soon, then I will indeed be praying – for better leadership in Austin.”
Maybe a carbon tax? Does this guy honestly believe that the Governor has the power to end the drought?
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Barack is the first American to ever do anything good! (Except for Bill Ayers)
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The last hurricane to hit the US was Ike, in 2008. The NWS warned that anyone who didn’t evacuate faced “certain death.”
“All neighborhoods … and possibly entire coastal communities … will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide,” the advisory said. “Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death.”
Bill Read, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, estimated there were about 140,000 people in the smaller, “certain death” zone. About 70 percent of those residents evacuated. That left nearly 40,000 people to contend with the worst of the storm surge.
