Meantime, ignored here in DC and this planet: "Forecast: Hottest month ever closes with more 90s"

[Faygo Kid]

"We likely close out the hottest month ever here in D.C. - and by a wide margin at that - with our 14th straight 90-degree day. With no big cool down in the foreseeable future, the biggest question is whether the heat may relent just enough mid-to-late week to break the 90+ streak before we get close to the record of 21 days."

"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sectionfronts/metro/weather/index.html

I also see that Glacier National Park may have to rename itself, as the glaciers are melting. DC is always intolerable in the summer, but for July 2011 to be the hottest month EVER here is saying something. Plus the droughts, the storms, the incredible snows in the winter: It all adds up. The climate is changing, and faster than even I thought it would happen. The science is solid, and irrefutable, except for someone like Limbaugh (three weeks of college) and his immovable dittoheads.

Fraud Rep. Joe Walsh, concerned about the debt load on your kids and grandkids? How about the world of mass extinction they are about to inherit?

Sorry. I too am very concerned about what this debt ceiling "deal" will do to us, and I also know no one in Congress will sound the alarm about climate change any time soon. Just thought I would mention it. We're pretty fragile out here on this tiny planet in the outskirts of a nondescript galaxy.

[peacebird]

1. love the photo of JFK at the bottom of your post... How far the Dem Party has fallen... Sad.

[ShockediSay]

2. Tell that to the climate change deniers

and they will just tune into Rush Limbaugh and the like because lemmings like company as they go over the edge into the abyss.

[etherealtruth]

3. I lived there in the 90's and could not tolerate the heat

I've been back in my home state of Michigan for a decade .... we have been breaking "heat" records. Its hellishly hot.

Understanding that a single summer's "heat" wave means nothing .... I also understand that global average temperatures are increasing at an alarming rate (this does "mean" something!"

[RebelOne]

4. July hottest month? Wait until August. n/t

[ljm2002]

5. Glacier National Park is in Montana...

...just for the record.

Your point of course is still correct, the earth is burning while those in charge twiddle their thumbs (at best) and often actively promote policies that make it worse. Meanwhile, a deceived population does not demand action on this issue.

And when the environmental sh*t really does hit the fan, the same people who have ignored it, who have preached that we must ignore it, will turn around on a dime and blame leftist commie environmental types for it. And they will have lots of people believing them.

Not that it will matter. There will be enough mayhem to go around, unless we figure out globally that we must pull together rather than pull apart.

Yes I know. Fat chance. But still, I continue to hope for a tipping point in human consciousness. We do have global communication networks available to us as individuals, allowing peer to peer exchange of ideas. Hopefully more and more individuals begin to realize we have no beef with each other, it's just our "leaders" who promote such thinking.

The controllers all over the world are ruining things. They do not let anything organic happen, rather they insist on imposing their version of "order" on the world. Very few of them work for the betterment of all.

Well the old order is crumbling, we can only hope that whatever replaces it will be better.

[Faygo Kid]

7. Thanks. Hoping for "a tipping point in human consciousness." That's well put. I will remember it.

I fear we may very well be past that "tipping point," but thanks for your correction and response.

[Loge23]

13. For those who don't need a weatherman,

The NYT had an article today that stated that Glacier had 150 glaciers 150 years ago. Now they have 25.
Interesting article:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/travel/glacier-national-park-montana-fading-glaciers.html

[abq e streeter]

6. Just a wild guess: Someplace or other will have a big snowstrom this winter

and the acolytes of everyone from Limbaugh to Inhofe will crawl out of wherever it is they hide, to build "Al Gore igloos" or some equally oh so clever name, and said snowstorm will of course be shown to be conclusive proof that climate change is a "liberal hoax". The previous hellishly hot summer will be conveniently forgotten /ignored including by the MSM who will give the "igloo parties" the same fair and balanced coverage they give to other equally news- worthy events, such as 5 or more tea baggers gathering somewhere.

Who me, cynical?

[Faygo Kid]

8. Guaranteed it will happen. And huge snowstorms are also a manifestation of climate change.

I worry more about another Katrina this fall. It's inevitable, and soon.

[abq e streeter]

15. Unfortunately, "snowstorms are also a manifestation..." is WAY too complex a concept

for the aforementioned acolytes.
"Hmmm.Rush say it snow today. See ? Earth no warm. Liberals doodyheads."
End of their analysis of the situation.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. I was thinking about that same thing today. I wouldn't be surprised if we see...

6" fall somewhere in northern Florida this winter.

Something really unusual like that.

[abq e streeter]

19. Oops--too late to edit..."Snowstrom? " Better lern to spel more gooder...

[itsrobert]

9. Nice and mild here on the California Coast

Great weather so far this year. Even got some rain last night.

[Faygo Kid]

10. Well, we're OK, then!

Glad to hear it.

Never mind.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Too damn many Republicans in DC and state legislatures.

They are causing all of hot temperatures.

[Ilsa]

14. I would love to have 90 degree heat for all of July.

We've run 99-103 in Texas. The extra ten degrees are brutal. And there hasn't been a break. Can't even get cooled off by a tropical storm or hurricane.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. This...

...everyone was going to throw a party when it looked like at least some rain from Don was going to hit Houston.

[DCBob]

17. The world is ignoring global warming.. we will pay for this someday.

especially now with economies in crisis mode.. this issue will be moved to the back burner until at some point they cant ignore it... but by then it will be too late.

[Proles]

18. Maybe this will shut up the people

who say, "Global warmings a myth... it's sooo cold up here in the northeast. Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck."

[Jchiang123]

20. Weather != Climate

This heat wave doesn't prove global warming by itself but there is still evidence for it.