In First Five Days Of July, 942 Maximum Daily High Temperature Records Set, 273 Tied

[hatrack]

Sorry Phantom Power - just had to follow on from the same Daily Kos article you posted!

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For July -- i.e., July 1st through July 5th -- there has been 942 records broken and 273 that were tied. For 2012 to date, 23,613 maximum temperature records have been set. Over the same period in 2011, only 13,582 maximum temperature records were broken. That is an increase of 71% over last year, which was more than hot enough as I recall. What's even more worrying is that, while all these temperature maximums are being set, the earth 94.5 million miles away from the sun, the farthest distance it will be this year, and we are breaking record high temperatures willy-nilly, like a store holding a going out of business sale.

Now the popular opprobrium dished out by those who deny that global warming is rapidly and perhaps irreversibly changing our climate, or that such claims of climate change are overblown or that even if change is occurring human activities have nothing to do with it, is to call people like myself, who post about data such as this, which demonstrates how quickly and radically our climate has already changed -- well they call us "alarmists."

Well I am alarmed. Very alarmed.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/06/1106948/-How-Hot-Has-It-Been-and-why-you-should-be-alarmed

[Doctor_J]

1. Another week of Al Gore's hoax

The Limbeciles think that climate change was made up by President Gore as a money-making scheme. They are the most ignorant subculture in US HIstory

[phantom power]

2. Can one post this too many times? No, no one cannot.

[joshcryer]

3. I wear my alarmist badge proudly.

This is nothing to joke about. Yes, there will probably even be some more cool years, but this shit is going to be the new norm in a decade at most. Watch and see. Sea ice is our planetary cooling jacket.

And it's about to be ripped off.

[emmadoggy]

4. I'm alarmed right along with you.

Very, VERY alarmed.

[GliderGuider]

5. It's past time to wake up.

I'm alarmed too...

[glinda]

6. Does anyone seriously think the planet will last another five years? ha!

As the trend goes, we will all be baked in a short time.