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(Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means “like a parasite” on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

http://www.reuters.com/

The city of Morehead, Minn., had the dubious distinction as the hottest place on Earth for a day, said meteorologist Heidi Cullen of Climate Central, in an interview on National Public Radio. On July 19, the heat index there — a measure of humidity and temperature that indicates how hot the weather feels — was 134 F (56.7 C). (The National Weather Service later said this reading could be an anomaly due to the local weather station’s location in a very wet field, and not representative of the entire town.)

http://news.yahoo.com/

They claim that July, 2011 was the hottest month ever in Oklahoma City at 89F average temperature.

http://www.weather.com/

The closest USHCN station is in Meeker, OK. August 1936 averaged one degree warmer at 90F, and summer temperatures have steadily declined since the 1930s.

As far as high temperatures go, August 1936 was much hotter. This past month averaged 103F for the high – August, 1936 was three degrees warmer at 106F.

Even with UHI, August 1936 was hotter.

With all these 40 mph wind gusts going on, we may run out of rock names this summer.

In August 2007, the East Siberian Sea ice edge was shrinking very rapidly. This year it is expanding.

On April 19, I warned that the Arctic was likely to be a disaster for alarmists this year.

Temperatures have been very cold recently  in central Siberia, and as a result there is little melt or compaction going on in the East Siberian Sea.  So I guess the permafrost is not belching out methane, as the Chicken Little squadron had feared.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/ANIM/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.25.gif

A week ago I made a forecast for JAXA through August 1 (dotted line.) As you can see, my forecast was a little high. My system probably does a better job of measuring 30% ice than 15% ice, so my forecast matches closer with DMI than JAXA.

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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies…

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

– Barack Obama

In 1886, seven hurricanes struck the US, including two major hurricanes. It was the busiest hurricane season on record.

1886	Jun	TX, N2; LA, 2			2		973		85	-----
1886	Jun	FL, NW2; I-GA, 1		2		973		85	-----
1886	Jun	FL, NW2; I-GA, 1		2		973		85	-----
1886	Jul	FL, NW1				1		985		70	-----
1886	Aug	TX, C4				4		925		135	"Indianola"
1886	Sep   #	TX, S1, C1			1		973		80	-----
1886	Oct	LA, 3; TX, N2			3		955		105	-----

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt

At 390 ppm, we haven’t had any hurricanes for almost 35 months.