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You can get a decent road bike for about $1,000 – mine was $800 new. I ride almost 10,000 miles per year. 80% of that is shopping, commuting, going to visit friends, etc. – i.e. things I would otherwise have to use a car for.

My van gets 20 MPG, so I save about 500 gallons – or $2,000. I figure I save another $2,000 in automobile depreciation/maintenance costs. So the bike pays for itself in three months. Plus I don’t suffer road rage, don’t pollute, and don’t give money to scummy middle eastern and South American dictators.

Someday I will move to Holland and give up the cars completely. I can’t wait for that.

June 2011 was the coldest June since 1972 in many areas, according to Met Éireann, with mean temperatures finishing around 1.0c below normal over the country.

In their just released monthly review for June, Met Éireann say that “Shannon Airport, Valentia Observatory, Roche’s Point, Dublin Airport and Belmullet all reported their coldest June since 1972. The minimum air temperature of 0.5°C at Mullingar on the 10th was the lowest recorded for June in 20 years at the station, while both Valentia Observatory and Claremorris had their lowest minimum temperatures recorded since 1991, with values of 4.6°C and 1.0°C respectively. Grass minimum temperatures recorded in the Dublin area on the 10th were the lowest for June in over 40 years”

http://www.irishweatheronline.com/

h/t to Marc Morano

Except for 95% of the area – which has lots of ice.

http://www.arctic.io/

Thanks, Smokey!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090302-glaciers-melting.html

The problem is that there is too much snow for anyone to get in there and check it out.

http://missoulian.com/

h/t to Eric Barnes

End of June inflow into Lake Powell is the second highest on record. The Obama administration warned last month that Lake Powell is drying up.

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/index2.php?as_of=1964-06-29

Romm says that the 2011 drought is the worst ever.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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