July was the hottest month in U.S. history

[GliderGuider]

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/story/2012-08-08/hottest-july-us-history/56873854/1

July's average temperature for the contiguous USA was 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit, eclipsing the record set during the heart of the Dust Bowl in 1936, federal scientists announced Wednesday.

"The extent of the heat this year was much more widespread than in July 1936," says Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

Some drought relief is possible in the fall in the central and southern Plains, but warm, dry weather should continue in the upper Midwest and around the Great Lakes, he says.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the average July temperature was 3.3 degrees above the 20th-century average and the hottest July and hottest month in records dating to 1895. The previous warmest month was July 1936 (77.4 degrees ).

I thought it felt a little toasty...

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Welcome To The New Normal

The data on global warming is frightening. Based on what we are seeing now we could be ahead of the curve on global warming. Let's call it what it is - global warming. You can say climate change but that really is misleading. We are warming even if we have snow here and there during the winter cycle.

Will we have a Titanic experience and deny our problem until we are already sunk. We may well be because we have lost so much time.

[GliderGuider]

2. It's becoming clear

... that the time for "coulda/woulda/shoulda" is pretty much over.

So now the question we each have to ask ourselves is, "How do I wish to respond to this situation?"

Here are some of the options I see:

1. Fight like hell anyway because you just never know.
   
2. Build your community ties and learn how to garden.
   
3. Stockpile more ammo.
   
4. Ignore it and keep on living as before.
   
5. Don't ignore it but keep on living as before anyway.
   
6. Learn to meditate and practice radical forgiveness and surrender.
   
7. Join a cult and pray for the Rapture/Aliens/Ascended Masters to fix our shit.
   
8. Take one bullet from point #3...

Choose as many as you wish, and feel free to add your own.