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  • NOAA: The new normal is hot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center has just released an overview of its new “1981-2010 Climate Normals” [PDF]. Meteorologist Paul Douglas, founder and CEO of Broadcast Weather, explains what this means: NOAA just released the latest climate “normals” for the USA. When you hear the “average high” or “average low”, […]

  • Breaking: The earth is breaking … but how about that Royal Wedding?

    One commenter pointed out that the (HuffPost) icon I used for the post on Bin Laden was actually a good symbol for the “Breaking Earth.” Obviously, large parts of the Earth are breaking up at an unprecedented rate — with dire implications for humanity: JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on […]