US sets record temperatures

But Rush said there's no global warming!

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Something the Dog Said wrote: It is not just Enviros who are concerned but homeowners who depend on their local water supplies. My biggest concerns with fracking are the water use (1 - 5 million gallons per well) and disposal of the contaminated water.

Many companies are growing and making money on recovered frack water. I have not pulled the trigger on buying any but after the election I will be prepared.

Here is one article. The EPA And Fracking: How To Capitalize - Part 3 http://seekingalpha.com/article/314481- ... ize-part-3


This is google for "recycling frack water" https://www.google.com/search?sourceid= ... i=g4&pbx=1

Since Jan. 1, the United States has set more than 40,000 hot temperature records, but fewer than 6,000 cold temperature records, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the month of June.

Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn't caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.

I have to wonder if wildfires continue to be problematic if firefighters will stop fighting them and just let them run their course, focusing on evacuating the people.

mtntrekker wrote: I have to wonder if wildfires continue to be problematic if firefighters will stop fighting them and just let them run their course, focusing on evacuating the people.

Fox was running some interesting numbers comparing forest fires in the Great Depression versus the average these days, 40 to 7 nowdays ratio.

This could of course be due to different factors, forest firefighters then don't have our technology.
Hard to slurry bomb with biplanes.

And the Forest Service then might have been more willing to let people get burned out of their cabins.

Raees wrote: But Rush said there's no global warming!

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Care to let us know where those temps were taken? Back in '66 when my family bought a new home out near Hampden and Monaco in Denver, we were pretty much the southern edge of Denver. Monaco turned to a dirt road after it crossed Hampden Avenue. Now the development has pretty much made Castle Rock a bedroom community. Think the miles of asphalt and concrete soaking up the daytime rays might raise the night time temps a bit? It's called a heat sink - absorbing heat and then slowly releasing it and it has absolutely nothing to do with climate change - anthropogenic or otherwise. It might, however, alter the air patterns in the surrounding area a bit and have an impact on the local weather, the degree of cooling in the night and how long snow covers the ground after a storm. Just a thought . . . . . . .

Thank you. Multiply that heat sink effect by 10's of thousands of growing cities adding more concrete all the time and what do you think happens?

Raees wrote: Thank you. Multiply that heat sink effect by 10's of thousands of growing cities adding more concrete all the time and what do you think happens?

Creates micro-climates?