rollingstone? Really? .
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: > http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719 > (http://bit.ly/NLLFlG) > > If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced > you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers > about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records > across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the > Northern Hemisphere the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature > of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which > occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger > than the number of stars in the universe. > > Meteorologists reported that this spring was the warmest ever recorded for > our nation in fact, it crushed the old record by so much that it > represented the "largest temperature departure from average of any season > on record." The same week, Saudi authorities reported that it had rained in > Mecca despite a temperature of 109 degrees, the hottest downpour in the > planet's history. > Not that our leaders seemed to notice. Last month the world's nations, > meeting in Rio for the 20th-anniversary reprise of a massive 1992 > environmental summit, accomplished nothing. Unlike George H.W. Bush, who > flew in for the first conclave, Barack Obama didn't even attend. > > ...more at link... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352960 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
