Last month wasn’t just the hottest July on record for the surface of earth. It continued the longest-ever streak of record-breaking months—15, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). July followed the hottest June, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, and September, along with last August, July, June, and May.

The extremes of recent months are such that we're only midway into 2016, and there’s already a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will go down as the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. NASA and NOAA maintain independent records of the earth’s temperatures, and both agree that last month was a scorcher. "July 2016 was absolutely the hottest month since the instrumental records began,"

Shelly

Don't worry, the usual GOP folks will "disprove" global warming as soon as winter arrives and it snows in one place. Because the existence of cold weather in one location on one day disproves that the climate as a whole is getting warmer, right?

I don't even know if we can rectify the situation. We may have passed the point of no return.

There have been five global extinctions, get ready for number six.

Number five killed off the dinosaurs, who had ruled the earth for 200 million years. Humanity had not yet evolved. The dinosaurs had not caused their demise, that had resulted from an asteroid hitting the Yukon peninsula and blotting out sunlight worldwide. We on the other hand, are in the process of committing racial suicide. Eighty percent of humanity could perish what is left may not be viable.

At the age of 80, I will not be around to witness number six. None of us will be around to see what comes next. Its been a nice trip.

Shelly

Replenishing the earth must have been awfully tough on those four women. Hardly left them time for other womanly stuff like doing the laundry and washing the dishes. That should be enough proof for anyone that God is a man.

He promised that there would be no other flood? I'm sure the folks in Louisiana would be glad to know that their homes didn't actually flood.

If you want to get Biblical, God promised that He'd never again flood the entire world. He can still flood portions of the world without breaking his vow. So if Global Warming permanently floods every coastal city around the world, the "Great Flood Promise" won't have any effect on this. (I'm side stepping the "A Biblical Promise won't stop real life things from happening" argument, of course.)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/episode/pbs-newshour-full-episode-aug-17-2016/

Video @ 19:50, talks about LA flooding & CA wildfires & "climate change".

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An interesting interview with a couple of very level-headed scientists. But overall it upholds the well established view of the vast majority of scientists that individual WEATHER events generally do not constitute evidence either for or against CLIMATE change.

A good read here.

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