Saturday, September 04, 2010

Wildlife Promise: Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Climate: Watch NWF's Climate Capsule
[4-minute video] The National Wildlife Federation Climate Capsule team's favorite summer movie was Inception. It got us to thinking, what if you could enter the dreams of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Big Oil's MVP?
Massive Iceberg Reaches Nares Strait - Softpedia
Over the past few years, more and more glaciers around the world began shedding icebergs at increasing rates than ever before.
Space channel pays tribute to our demise
The piece de resistance, though, has to be the 2006 doomsday doc, Countdown to Doomsday, hosted by that noted man of science, Today Show host Matthew "Matt" Todd Lauer.

Countdown to Doomsday features such respected experts in their fields as Al Gore, Daniel H. Wilson, Seth Shostak and Michio Kaku ruminating about asteroids, giant solar flares, supervolcanos -- sort of like a volcano, but bigger -- Gamma-ray bursts, flu pandemics, global warming and alien invasion.
Is “The Day After Tomorrow” Happening Today — Ice Age Imminent?
Snow in Brazil August 5th, 2010

* Norway experienced a half a meter of snow on August 29th.
* Russia, just a month removed from scorching record heat, also had unusually-early snowfall.
* Australia recorded the coldest August in 35 years.
* South America experienced record cold this winter resulting in millions of fish and other wild life dying off.
End of 'summer' near, more odd weather expected
Jan Null, a meteorologist with the private Golden Gate Weather Services, said the average monthly maximum temperatures around California were two to five degrees below normal.

San Francisco had an average high temperature of 65.2 degrees in August - four degrees below normal. June and July also had below-average temperatures.
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...it was a cool summer that extended over most of the state: Null reported that San Jose's average temperature in August was 78.9 degrees, 5.1 degrees below normal, the coolest for the month in 19 years.

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