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With hottest August on Record, …
… 2014 Takes Aim At Hottest Year On Record
Last month was the warmest August since records began being kept in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Thursday. NOAA also projected out scenarios for the rest of the year making clear that 2014 is going to be one of the very hottest years on record — and possibly the hottest.
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U.S. Leads the World…
April, May …. and now June
According to NOAA, “The last below-average global temperature for June was June 1976 and the last below-average global temperature for any month was February 1985.” In other words, the last time the Earth experienced a June with below-average global temperatures, Gerald Ford was President!
Mild weather here, but …
Earth Just Finished Its Warmest Quarter-Year Ever
New data released Monday shows humanity has just unlocked another achievement in the race to cook the planet: The last three months were collectively the warmest ever experienced since record-keeping began in the late 1800s.
Hotter still
Earth has warmest May on record, may signal warmest year in pipeline.
The NOAA analysis for May agrees with those of NASA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency, which I referred to here.
Hotter and hotter
Earth Just Tied for Its Warmest April on Record, NOAA Says
Earth Has Its Warmest May on Record Globally, Spring Could Be Warmest
May 2014 Was the Hottest May in Recorded History
Those stories about a slowdown or “pause” in global warming? Just statistical noise, or a #FauxPause.
GMOs: The real problem
You’re Worrying About GMOs For The Wrong Reasons which is based on
Risk Expert: GMOs Could Destroy the Global Ecosystem, which is based on The Precautionary Principle. Also see Small is Beautiful.
GOP’s “inane” war on science
Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists
I met Rush Holt back in 1970, when we were both undergraduates at Carleton College, majoring in Physics.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 