Aug 10: At Last: 90 Degrees in Central Park - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Until this year, officials believe, the city had not gone through June and July without reaching 90 degrees in at least a century. It was the city’s sixth coolest July on record.
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Summer-loving types were not the only ones to welcome the weather. Sufferers from some types of arthritis and other temperature-sensitive conditions feel better in warmer temperatures, said Yusuf Yazici, a rheumatologist with the Hospital for Joint Diseases at NYU Langone Medical Center.

People with osteoarthritis, the most common form of the joint disease, notice that their pain improves when in warm, dry weather, Dr. Yazici said. Sufferers from Raynaud’s disease, a blood-vessel disorder that causes cold hands and feet, also feel better when the weather is hot.

“Any rheumatologist, in their personal experience, can tell you,” Dr. Yazici said. “We get more patients when it’s colder and rainier.”

Your Government At Work: Buying Dollar Bills for $3 [and then destroying them] | Coyote Blog

So the government is paying consumers $4500 for assets with a market value of $1,475. Well of course it’s a popular program with its participants — Obama is buying up dollar bills for $3.

It’s The Jobs, Stupid (Chevron Refinery Edition) - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Chevron Corp. isn’t too keen on an injunction that has stopped its work upgrading its 243,000-barrel-a-day Richmond refinery in the East Bay near Berkeley, Calif. It’s counterpunch? It’s all about the jobs.

Chevron has set up a YouTube channel called Over1000JobsLost. That’s a reference to the number of construction workers who lost their jobs when a state judge last month halted work on the project.

What do Polar bears have to do with solar-driven-warming-induced CO2? Part 1

So because liberal politicians bought this and passed a bill, insurance companies saw a chance to make a buck, the U.S. Coast Guard, of which I was a member, has started thinking about a change and a government agency has accepted the output of the politically driven IPCC reports regarding storms which are in great dispute, we should accept GCM’s as reliable prediction devices. I think not!

Pajamas Media » Fear, the True Philosopher’s Stone, Will Save Us All

Behold, it is cap and trade — the salvation of mankind.
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The big deal is that there will be no more violent storms, droughts, mass migrations, and pandemics. Governments will cease to be toppled, terrorist movements will no longer exist, and regions will cease to be destabilized. No price is too high to pay for these miraculous benefits or for the wise sages we must bless for bringing them to us. Like Moses, President Obama in conjunction with St. Al the Gored will part the seas and lead us safely to the Holy Land!

Now go buy a car or something.