Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard: Weather, climate and coastlines - San Jose Mercury News

This year, the U.S. has been running a distinct fever

Kalispell sets new record low temp, Missoula ties record | KAJ18.com | Kalispell, Montana

the "freezer award" goes to West Yellowstone, where it was just 5 degrees at the park gate.

Time for GOP to stop denying climate change | The Great Debate

Over the past few years, we have witnessed increasing numbers of wildfires, violent hurricanes and tornados, and unprecedented drought. Americans understand what’s happening, and they want us to do something about it.
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Rep Michael Honda (D-Calif.) represents Silicon Valley and is a member of the House Budget and Appropriations Committees.

Yosemite Hantavirus and Climate Change - The Plague of Climate Denial Confronts an Actual Plague - Esquire

We are walking into a great trap here

I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich. « Pointman's

Most countries have laws in place to protect whistleblowers, and the sensible ones have a financial reward arrangement, when the funds in question are government money. You basically get a percentage of the money involved, the government claws some of it back and the criminals get a jail sentence.

The deal is quite simple; tell me what you’ve got, I’ll look at whether you’ve got a live one and, if I think it is, proceed with getting you your money. I’ll act as your agent, charging 20%, out of your end of whatever reward you eventually get, if any. Any expenses incurred by both of us, will come out of the reward money before we share it out. My percentage is not negotiable and we’d be signing a binding contract for services to that effect. Let me run through what my 20% gets you.

First off, you get a hard negotiator with a skill set, that’s very appropriate for this type of work. Most importantly, I’m your cutout. I’ll do the initial contact and subsequent negotiation with the relevant authorities, without revealing my source. I know my way around financial crime and what buttons to press to make bureaucracies work...