Baltimore hits second hottest temperature on record at 105F, but is it accurate? Heat wave photos

This temperature is suspicious, like a bank thermometer not precisely calibrated. Nearby weatherbug stations, which are considered to be fairly accurate, were all lower:

* Columbia hit 102F at Clemens Crossing ES.
* Ellicott City hit 100F at Veterans ES.
* Owings Mills hit 100F at The Harbour School.

B.C. fishers expecting bumper salmon run

To be sure, the management of the river’s sockeye draws emotional debate, whether from First Nations bands who think recreational fishers should be banned when sockeye numbers are low, or biologists who believe salmon farms are spreading disease into the wild population, or climate-change activists who tote warm waters as a chief culprit for the weak returns.

Phil Eidsvik, spokesman for the B.C. Fisheries Survival Coalition, said he does not buy the latter assessment.

“We’ve gone through high water temperatures, low flows, and all sorts of environmental conditions that weren’t favourable, and despite all that, we’ve managed to rebuild our run in the past,” he said.

Regardless, water temperatures may not even make waves this summer: The federal Pacific Salmon Commission reported that the Fraser River is nearly on par with the average temperature for this time of year, and in a June 29 news release said “migration conditions for sockeye entering the Fraser River are presently satisfactory.”

FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong » Book launch for False Alarm: Tuesday, July 13, 2010

False Alarm is finally out, under a new title: False Alarm: Global Warming—Facts Versus Fears. The previous subtitle was “Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Just Plain Wrong,” but that’s a bit unwieldy.

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Hot Air » Too Much Air Conditioning Makes Salon Boil Over

Scroll over to the punch line of the Salon article, which is a triumph of hairshirt enviro-hypocrisy.

Incidentally, this isn’t the first time that Salon has used their bandwidth, not to mentioned their air conditioned Internet servers to make this argument.