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CCW - "This is Not Cool" is cool

User Image illconsidered | August 11, 2011
A really good overview of all the extreme weather we have been seeing this last year from Greenman. I'd say it is about time to say welcome to the new normal. I heartily second Al Gore's call of "bullshit", that is what folks like Bastardi deal in, pure and simple.

What does one summer make?

stoat | August 3, 2010
It looks like the recent hot summer in Russia and the wildfires stuff have caused a volte-face (though probably only temporary) according to Time: Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?. Quite a few people have died, though most of them seem to have died of being drunk. Which suggests that adaption may be a useful strategy. And of course climatologically one summer means very little. Apparently Medvedev has gone from We will not cut our development potential to practically everything is burning. The weather is anomalously hot... What's happening with the planet's climate…