Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Hot enough for you? June-July top the all-time charts

"This will come as little consolation for anybody who has steadfastly sworn that the sticky summer of 2005 has been the hottest ever:

"You're right.

"With two days left in this month, it's shaping up as the hottest June-July recorded in several eastern cities, according to data compiled by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University."
Posted by Mac at 1:28 PM

10 comments:

Kyle said...

Hi Mac -

One good remedy for the summer heat...place your head deep in the nearest expanse of sand.

Nice and cool...and avoids any troubling ranting about global warming...

It's how our government handles it, at any rate. :)

Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com

4:22 PM
KennyJC said...

It's not just america, Europe has it just as bad with apparently record lows in rain fall and record highs in heat.

5:10 PM
W.M. Bear said...

And me with my auto AC out.

5:33 PM
Mac said...

When the oil's gone, what's going to power our AC? We're going to *need* it, too!

6:27 PM
Mac said...

"Freak weather" is becoming the norm all over the planet.

(But this Crichton fellow assures me it's all a left-wing conspiracy, so I wouldn't worry about it.)

6:28 PM
W.M. Bear said...

Of course, it's not the fault of Bush and his totally clueless environmental policies (or, better, non-policies!) Amazingly, though, we haven't had any brownouts yet in my nook of the Boston area, so at least my apt. AC is keeping things semi-tolerable.

8:14 PM
The Andy-Christ said...

I'll be amazed if August doesn't bring many parts of the country some nice rolling blackouts!

9:14 PM
Mac said...

Of course, global warming isn't W's (or any one person's) fault. But historically -- if we live to have a history -- his administration will be looked on as the one that could have sounded the alarm and enacted some sane policies that could have lessened the cataclysm for future generations.

9:21 PM
Kyle said...

Mac -

Enact sane policies?????

No way...cuts into "vaycayshun-time" a tad bit too much.

Kyle
UFOReflections.blogspot.com

12:31 AM
stankan said...

I don't know if the present heat comes from global warming. I think I am older than most of the people in this forum (52). I can say that since I can remember (47 years or so), people have been saying that the weather is weird. When I was a kid the Croton reservoir which supplies N.Y.C had gotton so low during a multi-year draught, that it looked like a puddle in the middle of a huge hole in the ground.
I do not see any more bizarre weather than when I was a kid.

I think global warming is a real threat. I think the Bush administration is an environmental catastrophy. I just don't see any change in the weird factor of weather over the course of my life.

Stan

6:12 AM