2010: "hottest, wettest, and in many cases also the driest and coldest in recorded history, says Jeff Masters"

Climate change hots up in 2010, the year of extreme weather | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A combination of abnormal climatic phenomena resulted in the year being the hottest, wettest, and in many cases also the driest and coldest in recorded history, says Jeff Masters, co-founder of climate tracking website Weather Underground.

WILIAM COLLINS: Pay attention to climate change, even if it’s bad for business- The Register Citizen

Well, the equivalent of a meteor is indeed streaking our way, but the press is mostly shrugging off the story. The cause of this impending cataclysm is hardly a secret — it’s climate change. But the media doesn’t want to talk about it or its potential to disrupt, or even destroy, life as we know it.
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Thus we observe remarkable behavior wherein television, newspapers, and radio report at great length on the world’s mounting natural disasters, but rarely ask, even rhetorically, whether warming could be part of the cause. They had better not. Jobs are at stake. Theirs.
...Astonishingly, these oil, coal, natural gas, power, and auto companies have been able to purchase the whole Republican Party and all of Fox News. That has helped suppress any serious questioning or action.
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OtherWords columnist William A. Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk.

WORLD Magazine | Storm warner | Daniel James Devine | Jul 16, 11

Hurricane expert [Bill Gray] takes the American Meteorological Society to task on climate change | Daniel James Devine
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The hurricane forecaster wrote that many AMS members, like him, believe global warming is a natural phenomenon driven by cyclical changes in deep ocean currents. "I anticipate that we are going to experience a modest, naturally driven global cooling over the next 15 to 20 years," he predicted.
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AMS policy director William H. Hooke told me in an email that the society's position on climate change was supported by scientific literature, and "no formal response to Dr. Gray's opinion piece is necessary."

A 2009 survey seems to back up Gray's opinion about the views of AMS members, though. In the survey, the AMS probed the views of TV weathercasters within its membership: Only 19 percent of respondents agreed that "global climate models are reliable in their projections for a warming of the planet." A full 50 percent disagreed with the statement, "Most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced."

Interactive Map Reveals Effects Of Climate Change Near You | Fast Company

It's not just floods and fires. A new interactive map shows you all the insidious and sometimes invisible problems facing the planet, from food shortages to super poison ivy.

“Question Authority” Back In Vogue

All those billions poured into brainwashing at schools could be quickly for nothing.
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These things can spread like wildfire among the youth.

1886 : US Hit By Seven Hurricanes | Real Science

In 1886, the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes.

July 15, 1936 – “1,000 Perish on 12th Day of Hot Spell in Nation” | Real Science

Seven consecutive days of 100 degree heat in Michigan.