heat wave
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Conservative pundits deny existence of record-breaking heat wave
Rush Limbaugh says "almost no temperature records were broken" during the recent heat wave, and Newsbusters writer Noel Sheppard says there were "only 34 new all-time daily temperature records set." Only 34? Why, that's barely a record-breaking heat wave at all! Except for the fact that a) 34 records is nothing to sneeze at and b) by "34," Sheppard means "somewhere between 70 and 7,612."
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Limbaugh: Heat index is a liberal government conspiracy
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1011854&w=425&h=350&fv=] Heat wave? What heat wave? That’s just the government TELLING you it’s hot outside, for its own nefarious reasons. You know the (evocative but false) parable about the frog and the boiling water? Rush is the frog standing in the pan, slowly dissolving into soup, wearing a lumberjack hat and yelling “BOY IT […]
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The only weather map you'll need this summer
Linda Sharps (@Sundry) has preempted your need to check Weather.com for at least the next week or so.
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'Under the weather' Inhofe skips climate denier conference
As a record drought roasts Oklahoma, "under the weather" climate denier Jim Inhofe bails out of Heartland Institute's Conference on Climate Change.
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Understanding the optimistic view embraced by 'Climatopolis'
I thank Joe Romm for his constructive suggestions about my book, "Climatopolis." But in no way do his points affect the book's core logic.
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'Climatopolis' by Matthew Kahn is not a good book
Climatopolis has a deeply flawed main thesis. The author just doesn't know what he's talking about because he hasn't done his homework.
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Summer 2010 is breaking heat records [VIDEO]
More than five weeks remain of summer, and already it's a record-breaker. A climatologist looks at what's behind the heat and extreme weather so far.
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2010's extreme heat: A window on our future
According to a new National Wildlife Federation report, the sweltering summer of 2010 could be considered mild compared to the typical summers of the future.