Community | August 08, 2011 | 21 comments

July Heat Records Define The United States

source: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/05/288768/july-heat-records-define-the-united-states/

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July was so hot “that just by plotting the location of each daily heat record that was broken, a nearly complete image of the contiguous United States is visible,” reports NOAA. “Almost 9,000 daily records were broken or tied last month, including 2,755 highest maximum temperatures and 6,171 highest minimum temperatures (i.e., nighttime records).” “Some cities reached daily high temperatures 19 out of the 31 days in the month.” The data is incomplete, as they “only include weather stations with real-time electronic reporting, which accounts for about two-thirds of the locations.”

By Brad Johnson on Aug 5, 2011 at 10:00 am
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21 comments // July Heat Records Define The United States

  • remanns
  • Dejan_Croatia
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      Dejan_Croatia  

    • like Bill Maher say if we "the educated people" say its part of global warming the non-belivers of this scientifically proven data will say "SEE HOWS IS IT GLOBAL WARMING WHEN THERE ARE ALSO RECORD SNOW FALL? HUH?" INSTEAD! we should call it Climate Change meaning climates in areas will change drastically either in a hot way or cold way! haha

    • 10 months ago
  • EmperorThan
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      EmperorThan  

    • I can never remember a summer this hot in Oklahoma. And it's funny too cus we had a record breaking snowfall of 15 inches in one day in Tulsa last Feb too!

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • sugarmountian
  • coolplanet
  • sugarmountian
  • sugarmountian
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      sugarmountian  
    • coolplanet:

      Their day is coming. When the everyday working man can't make a living thats when it's gonna hit the fan.
      I just can't wrap my head around what they could be thinking. They like to go on fishing trips. They like to swim in clean water. They like to breathe clean air.
      They'll get it when the supermarkets are empty and their money is useless.

    • 10 months ago
  • GRC54
  • coolplanet
    • 0
      coolplanet  
    • GRC54:

      While I do believe Grandmother Earth is alive I don't know if she is consciously seeking revenge. I think it's more like she is simply trying to restore balance which could wipe out billions.

    • 10 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • coolplanet
    • +2
      coolplanet  

    • In the United States alone this year we have broken the all-time snow records, tornado records, flood records, forest fire records, drought records and heat records.
      The only thing left is all-time hurricane records and we are just entering hurricane season.
      2011 will be remembered as the year global warming became no longer deniable.

    • 10 months ago
  • Paratus
  • cmc101
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      cmc101  
    • Paratus:

      since ,we did away with the space shuttle and privatize the space program
      From whom will we get our information from the same guys that give us poison food,air and lakes throw in a ocean or two

    • 10 months ago
  • coolplanet
    • +1
      coolplanet  
    • Paratus:

      I recently read a book written by NASA's top climatologist of 40 years, James Hansen, entitled "Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity" (Bloomsbury 2009).

    • 10 months ago
  • letsliveinpeace
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      letsliveinpeace  

    • Although periodic dry spells have always been normal, the new study suggests that global warming is already causing more serious droughts, which have more than doubled since the 1970s. (Drier areas are indicated in red, wetter areas in blue.) The extra heat in the atmosphere evaporates more water and dries out the land, which in turn fuels devastating fires. Extreme droughts in China and France are currently drying up reservoirs and killing crops, while the fire season in the American West has increased by 78 days over the past 30 years.

      http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scorched-earth-20110624

    • 10 months ago
  • Gravity_Man
  • coolplanet
  • percipi224
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      percipi224  
    • coolplanet:

      I was struck by ice core samples of tempurature changes over the last 400,000 years, here is a sample, if you go down the report you will see a scale. whether you adhere to man made climate change, (which the beginning of the agricultural age would prove) or that the planet heats up every 200,000 year or so, we are not prepared AT ALL. All our problems will be moot if we are extinct, mother nature will have the last word as she always does.

    • 10 months ago
  • percipi224
  • coolplanet
    • -1
      coolplanet  
    • percipi224:

      I concluded recently that the domestication of crops and livestock some 8,000 years ago was the downfall of humankind and our planet. It introduced cities, malnutrition, clearing of forests, soil erosion and most of our worst diseases as Prof. Jared Diamond so eloquently points out in "Guns, Germs & Steel."
      For a million years humans were hunter-gatherers like the rest of the animals.
      What amazes me is that agriculture originated independently from cultivating grass in three separate regions at the same time -- wheat from the Middle East, rice from China and corn from Central America.
      Someone please explain to me how this coincidentally happened!

    • 10 months ago
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