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India Temple Stampede Kills 63
NEW DELHI--At least 63 people were killed and 100 others injured Thursday in a stampede at a Hindu temple in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the latest in a string of disasters that highlights the terrifying frequency with which pilgrimages turn deadly when religious fervor collides with India's appalling infrastructure.
A rush of devotees during the free distribution of food, utensils and clothes set the stage for the stampede, which was triggered when the site's main gate collapsed, said Satya Bhushan Pathak, additional superintendent of police in Pratapgarh district, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) southeast of New Delhi. Devotees had gathered at the temple for a ritual feast. Of the 63 dead, 26 were women and 37 were children.
Photos: Stampede in India
It was the second deadly temple tragedy in the last three months in India, where every year tens of millions gather in small areas lacking the facilities to control big gatherings. In January, 10 Hindu pilgrims died in a stampede during a religious festival on the Ganges river in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. The incident took place when hundreds of devotees tried to board a ferry to take them to the festival.
"Such accidents can be called a normal phenomenon in a country where there are too many religious followers and public facilities are inadequate," said Prof. Chintamani Mahapatra at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. He added that part of the blame also goes to inept law enforcement agencies that fail to control such disorderliness.
In 2008, a total of 371 people were killed in stampedes in two different Hindu temples, one in the western state of Rajasthan, the other in northern Himachal Pradesh state. In 2005, a fire and stampede at the Mandhar Devi hilltop temple in the western state of Maharashtra left 250 dead.
India's worst stampede was in 1954 when more than 500 men, women and children were killed and over 2,000 injured in a stampede of pilgrims seeking to wash away their sins in the sacred waters at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in the city of Allahabad in northern India. Three million people had thronged the river bank on the occasion of the great Kumbh bathing festival.
About 200,000 people were present at Thursday's community lunch at a popular Ram Janaki temple owned by a Hindu holy man, Jagadguru Kripalu Ji Maharaj. The lunch was held to mark the anniversary of his wife's death. Indian television footage showed angry villagers and local people throwing stones at the temple authorities and police officials.
Mr. Pathak said the injured had been rushed to hospitals for medical treatment. Rescue teams were being sent to the disaster site with security personnel. The government of Uttar Pradesh has also ordered an investigation into the tragedy, Mr. Pathak said.
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The Gophers knew heading to Chapel Hill, N.C., that their matches wouldn't be easy.
And they weren't.
No. 19 North Carolina dropped the Gophers 4-1, but they bounced back to beat Citadel 7-0.
Against North Carolina, head coach Geoff Young said the team had a slow start in the doubles competition.
Getting the doubles point can make a difference between winning and losing a meet.
Minnesota experienced that this weekend when the team was unable to capitalize in its second meet against Marshall.
When the team did win its doubles point, it resulted in a 5-1 upset over No. 66 Louisville.
It was the first time all season that Minnesota beat a ranked opponent.
In the doubles competition, senior Tereza Brichacova and junior Paula Rincon-Otero helped jumpstart the meet with an 8-2 victory.
Before coming to Minnesota, Julia Courter didn't play high school tennis.
She was homeschooled, forcing her to make her mark on the United States Tennis Association circuit tournaments.
Paula Rincon-Otero, who grew up in Spain, certainly faced adjustments before she arrived in Minneapolis, too.
Though they come from different backgrounds, Courter and Rincon-Otero have developed a strong chemistry on and off the court that is put on display when they play doubles together.
Though the temperatures in Minneapolis dipped this weekend, the cold air didn't seem to cool down the red-hot Gophers.
Off to one of their best starts in the last five years, the Gophers emerged victorious against all three of their opponents this weekend to claim their fourth, fifth and sixth victories this season.
"It's a lot of tennis," head coach Geoff Young said. "I thought the guys are playing better and better."
The Minnesota men's and women's tennis teams went up against top competition at the ITA Kick-Off over the weekend in the hope of extending their undefeated records to open their 2015 campaigns.
Save for a men's vicotry against Michigan, the teams seemingly couldn't keep up with their talented opponents.
The women's team opened its weekend against No. 3 North Carolina, losing the competition by a final score of 4-0.
Caroline Ryba didn't have the opportunity to savor her final weeks at home before coming to the University of Minnesota.
The freshman rehabilitated a hip alignment issue within a month of joining the Gophers.
During that month, she couldn't play tennis or go running. But luckily for her, the issue was fixed before she got to campus.
And once she arrived in Minneapolis, she refused to let the setback get in the way of success.
Dropping just one match Saturday against two opponents, the Gophers men's tennis team began the season with a 2-0 record — the first time since 2009.
The Gophers hosted Marquette University and South Dakota State University and were able to dominate the doubles competition in both meets, which gave them a one-point lead going into the singles competition.
Head coach Geoff Young said he always watches the doubles competition carefully.
Just two months into his first semester at the University of Minnesota, freshman Felix Corwin holds the title of Big Ten indoor champion.
Corwin, who didn't lose a set during the entire tournament, faced off against fellow freshman and teammate Matic Spec in the championship match.
Corwin is the first men's tennis player to win the title since 2003.
The focus of this weekend's Gopher Invitational for the women's tennis team won't solely be on victories.
Instead, head coach Chuck Merzbacher will zone in on his team's underclassmen and how they adapt to college tennis.
"I always like to focus on the [underclassmen] … to make sure they have support there. The fall is for teaching," Merzbacher said.
The Gopher Invitational the first fall tournament scheduled for the team as it prepares for spring competition.
Minnesota headed into the Gopher Invitational intending to set the bar for the upcoming season.
The Gophers did just that, finishing each day with winning records in both singles and doubles. Three Gophers reached the title match in their respective singles flights.
Senior Tereza Brichacova won the Minnesota Flight Singles, the top flight, with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Iowa's Shelby Talcott.
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"Ghostbusters": 10 Facts About the Franchise You Thought You Knew
DC Comics has updated its New Frontiersman promotional website with a first, albeit small, look at interior artwork from Before Watchmen, the sprawling prequel to the seminal 1986 miniseries by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The portfolio, featuring art by the likes of Lee Bermejo, Amanda Conner, Darwyn Cooke, Adam Hughes, J.G. Jones and Jae Lee, was shown Thursday at the Diamond Retailer Summit and Saturday at the "DC All Access: Before Watchmen" panel at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo.
That Rorschach splash just shrank my pants.
In addition to making a good point, KG made me crack up.
But I agree. Everything I see looks interesting, promising, or both.
Looks like a nice mix of work that's reverential to Gibbons with stuff that isn't so much.
I just got a chubbie in my manties. Looking good.
Did anyone doubt that this was going to be pretty to look at?
Oh mindless consumption by those who wish to relive a specific moment in their lives…is there anything you can't make money from?
I'm not really excited about these being "Before Watchmen' projects in the least.
But I am excited about new work out of Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner, Brian Azzarello, JMS, JH Jones, Adam Hughs (??!! interior???), Jae Lee (the best of the bunch, artistically), and Lee Bermejo.
I fully anticipate these projects being great. Not because they are trading on the Watchmen name — that is pure marketing, it has no positive or negative correlation to quality in my midn — but because the creative teams are dynamite.
You can say something like "Flashpoint" was as a concept and conceit creatively empty, but Azzarello's "Dark Knight of Vengeance" was undoubtedly a strong, compelling, surprising piece of work.
Looks nice; I'm glad my initial impression (that this was some double-page spread from a single comic) was mistaken. The fact that I wasn't sure at first says something, I think, about the state of mainstream comic book art ca. 2012.
"Oh mindless consumption by those who wish to relive a specific moment in their lives…is there anything you can't make money from?"
congrats regularsyzedmike, you just passed basic poli-sci rhetoric. onward to a rewarding life of meaningless sloganeering!
@gnarlk: Sounds like I have a bright future at DC!
or as another online alan moore lapdog…
You could put Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner on a Jar-Jar Binks spin-off, and it would look incredible. Don't mean it'll have anything original, important, or clever to say.
But that's not why you guys buy comics, is it?
Some people buy comics to be entertained, and some people have different standards for what constitutes "entertainment". Is it really strictly necessary to turn the comment thread on *every* internet posting about Before Watchmen into an endless series of ad hominem attacks on its readers, detractors, creators, publishers and/or Alan Moore?
Looks fine, doesn't it?
But there's reasons why Gibbons chose to stick with the three-tiered, 9-panel page layout for the Watchmen. Artists who abandon it risk also abandoning the Watchmen's tone and mood. Maybe they don't care.
I should just be grateful these Before Watchmen comics weren't given to Rob Liefield or Jim Lee to "interpret". I would be forced to burn a cross on DC's front lawn. If they had a lawn.
Yes, that Rorschach piece is fantastic.
@gnarlk: He's over rated, too.
Protect your lap!
People should only be allowed to buy comics based on my opinion. Why can't everyone understand this????
"Maybe they don't care."
If they did, this wouldn't be happening at all.
Oh, c'mon. If you're buying one of these series because you like the artist involved, that doesn't make you a slave to DC's marketing tactics. If you're buying books you otherwise wouldn't because they're Watchmen-related, then yeah, you're a pawn or whatever epithet these fanboys are latching onto.
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We all love that night in September when for a handful of amazing hours, Culture Night Belfast transforms the places and spaces of our favourite city. But why stop at that? There are loads of great things happening all the time in Belfast and the rest of the CNB week is no different! With CNX we want to showcase an 'Extra' offering of events for curious visitors and up-for-it locals alike. So starting on Wednesday 16 and running through to Sunday 20 September, here are some activities, performances and more to keep that Culture Night feeling all week long.
For tickets please see individual venue website on each listing.
Come try Slacklining - a balance sport.
Head off on a reading adventure on the Reading Rooms Mobile.
Hand-crafted cephalopods in the Cathedral Quarter.
Come and help plant an orchard for Belfast.
Learn about fun ways to give nature a home locally.
Green woodwork demonstration by Stephen Ryan.
A magazine celebrating people & landscapes of NI.
Live action roller derby demos!
Tibetan dance performance and workshop.
BelleHoppers perform styles of the hot jazz era.
Experience the excitement and sensuality of Argentine Tango.
Energetic and upbeat youth dance jam session.
Belfast based break dance crew.
Tir na n-Og Irish dancers perform live medley.
Have a go at swing and charleston.
Flamenco dance using fans, hats and clapping.
Watch the video; learn the moves; Belfast dancing together?magic!
Oil paintings. A Legacy of Love.
Irish folk and roots singer songwriter.
Hauntingly beautiful video installation.
Acoustic aka Paul Wilkinson and Edelle McMahon
Soul songs, old and new.
Banners created with Open Arts.
Quiet evening service sung by the Cathedral choir.
We need to come together. We need a Blanket Fort
Songs to inspire.
Big band consisting of swing, funk & pop. UYJO got the lot.
Ancient late night monastic chanted choir service.
"He who shall be last� shall be first."
What we need is, a new light installation!
Come have fun, create and play at KidsSpace!
Shoot art square in the pulp with Kaizen!
Aquatic arts & crafts.
Put your head in the frame and start a revolution.
Find out more about creative Belfast.
CBSM's brass band perform pop classics and more.
Vibrant women only samba band.
Shankill Road Defenders Flute Band & world artists.
An exciting piece of physical theatre.
Classical and popular favourites.
Sound of brass on the streets of Belfast.
A fascinating glimpse into Belfast's film past.
Dress up as a jungle animal for songs & rhymes!
Interactive light installation.
Visit the world from your Culture Night seat!
Expect to be enthralled and confused.
Harpist & singer
5 piece smokin' hot Rockabilly band.
Bluegrass riffs & fine finger-picking skills!
Performance exploring the involvement of violence in the artistic process.
Family making & doing, sticking & glueing time.
Join us 'under the sea' and put your message for #Belfast2025 in a bottle.
Purveyors of piano-driven atmospheric pop...
Sing & Dance for victory - 70 years on.
New work from Robin Price.
Celebrating contemporary design in Belfast.
High energy, garage rock and roll.
The world's 1st�BabyDay??? Find out more!
All songs taught by ear - no experience needed!
Sounds from Kingston, to the Streets of Belfast.
Join in this simple yoga sequence happening across Belfast!
DeLorean made of photographs.
Experience Japanese meditation and chanting.
Dance by adults with disabilities and carers.
Dance by men with brain injury, students and carers.
Live solo acoustic performance.
Fast paced dance trio that asks: Do you believe in luck?
A series of short films which remix classic films.
Beats in the bar with Kirk McBride.
Relax & de-stress during this lunch time session.
Let us take you on an imagination adventure.
Performance art exhibition & live event.
The incredible Circus-based sound installation.
Wood Burning Savages, Hot Cops, Autumns & DJs.
Performance by Belfast Youth Circus & Adult Circus.
Preview of NI's brightest & freshest film festival.
Showcase of Belfast's best live entertainment!
A drama extract celebrating integrated education.
We are parents who meet every week to sing!
Lisburn Harmony sings a "bit of everything!"
Down and Out bluegrass band.
Open studio and live sonic art improvisation.
A multi-disciplined exhibition, imagining Belfast's 'Agora'
The Smartest Giant in Town' brought to life.
Featuring Tongues (Glasgow) alongside afantastic cornucopia of local musicians.
Disabled/deaf dance photos and a KIC theatre show.
Loads of Yeeooooooooo's.
A fascinating glimpse into Belfast's film past.
A showcase of various T13 entities.
Crowd sourced stories, tweets, ArtCart performances.
The big drum circle for all!
Literally keepin 'er lit.
Interactive art event.
Take a risk, board the camper, dare to dream.
Musicians play creations & curate live art exhibit.
The magic of Doris Day on screen and in song.
Candlelit swing music after party @ the Buff Club.
Sea Pinks Live and left of centre DJ sets.
BYO skates followed by rollery derby 101 film.
10 short films about the N.I.Rats motorcycle group.
Rat bike' parade with music from local punk bands.
Ceol, caint, craic & spraoi.
Samba Band! Irish dancing!
Film about a transgender girl finding acceptence through roller derby.
Traditional music with Belfast Folk.
Latin & Kzoumba dance instruction & music.
5 unique performances: story, music, art.
Block Party celebrating Belfast Queer Culture.
Compose a limerick or haiku, for online video-cast.
Join Wake Up Belfast for a mindful walk.
Screening the kids' cartoon with score played live.
Using local resources to benefit your community.
Geg singing & dancing to lift the soul.
Electronic drum music inspires live art!
This 45 strong choir covering international and local artists.
Join us for Phased DJs and pizza.
Live burlesque performances.
African Brazilian DJ visual set.
Sing, rock, live with The Big Belfast Choir.
Illusions, slight of hand & magic - No parking.
Using drama and theatre to promote gender equality and human rights.
Exhibition of homemade slide guitars.
Collaborative poster exhibition.
6ft x10ft abstract paintings on cloth.
Live music from the best local musical talent.
Make a noise or even music and ring real bells.
Take a Shakespeare selfie in costume.
SCC present an evening of Circus entertainment.
Musicians popping up on the back of a truck.
NVTV pop-up television show
Pop up exhibition by Artist 'Faigy'.
An immersive audio-visual light installation.
A beautiful room filled with mirrors, music & more.
Wind down Culture Night with Orchestra players.
Created by PLACE for international Park(ing) Day.
Your city, Your ideas, Your voice.
A short onstreet performance of this play by Enda Walsh.
Live draw from Belfast based Illustrators.
A look at the military history of the regiment from 1793.
Kids events til 8pm & short film cinema til late!
Just 60 seconds to add to our rolling story.
Come join us for live music and carnival treats.
Witness the vows & say I Do at CNB's gay wedding!
Aisling Gh�ar's hilarious sketch show!
50+ dynamic singers belt out pop & soul classics!
Short film-noir & photographic installation.
Flamework Glass Demos at Craft NI.
BELFAST/Seven essential things you need to know.
Exclusive print exhibition by street artist Inkie.
Transforming the city with paint, one wall at a time.
It's Countdown.. on the street!
Claire Carpenter paintings on the 1st Floor Fenderesky Gallery.
6pm- Marc O'Reilly / 7pm - Travis is a Tourist / 8pm - R51 / 9pm - Rhinos / 10pm - Contour
Mapping North Street Belfast, an analysis.
It Does My Head In! Feminist ranting competition.
Tales of cunning hedgehogs, dwarves and witches!
Interactive science for everyone.
Healthy living workshops plus some suprise musical visitors!
Join us and try our favourite science tricks!
A fascinating glimpse into Belfast's film past.
A cafe, a table, a chess board waiting for you.
Words & Music. Gerry McCullough reads. With music!
Quick fire, one minute poem, poetry slam!
Stephen Dunwoody sings the songs of Nina Simone.
Join in with singing Belfast's story.
Corner Shop' by Bill Kirk.
Castle Arcade is transformed into a secret garden.
Courtyard jamboree with music and DJs.
Photography films in the Source lobby!
Local artist Matty Rea live.
Food, music, art and interactive entertainment.
Join An droichead musicians for a fantastic night of Irish music.
Knock three times for entry (and milkshakes).
Live music from 9pm and KKRU DJ's from 10pm.
Live street art, exhibition and music.
Kids and adults street party with a twist!
This Jazz pairing is both new and fresh.
Live jazz, sharing platters and cocktails
The parish choirs showcase St George's musical talent.
Photographic exploration of an auction house.
Know your Retro from your Victorian? Join our treasure hunt to find out!
Taste Fest, enjoy NI food, til 8pm, extra ents!
Live music from local singer-songwriter and saxophonist Hannah Lynn.
Best of our local music scene all under one roof.
Music jamboree of latin, ska, balkan afrobeats.
Food & crafts; locally inspired, sourced & made.
Roots & folk music from around the globe.
Local singer-songwriter performs original music.
An explosive gig to end this highly festive day with Bal Feirste (8pm) and The Bonnevilles (9.30)
A night packed with amazing talent and great music.
A lively night of folk music.
A literary scuffle that might end in tears!
Give Us A Clue! Street feminist charade.
Interactive radio play, by Stephen Millar.
Join in this simple yoga sequence happening across Belfast!
Kaleidoscope Arts, see Belfast as never before.
Loud, lively and colourful!
Round trip taxi service between Barrow Square and The Big Fish.
Painting up a storm on the Lagan.
Dock up and marvel at the mystery and magic!
Traditional music with An Droichead.
Like street countdown, but by the river!
Meditation walk beginning at Belfast Harbour Commissioners
Acoustic guitar mastery.
Work by Paul Murphy and Malachi O'Doherty.
Cultural cabaret including songs, music and storytelling.
Inspire new writing through poetic immersion.
Creative writing readings and an open mic session.
Join Platform for a tour of our newly renovated gallery space and artist studios.
Hear the mighty Mulholland Grand Organ in action.
A sneak view of Opening Concert prep. Less than 100 seats!
Talk on the museum's historic photographic collection.
Lecture on the use of art in improving mental health.
Redhead Thread is sewing up a storm!
Take a seat! An improvised�cultural, social and political exchange and interaction.
Audio Portraits, interactive mobile walking tour.
Photos on public and private notice boards.
Free Art! If you find it, take it, it's yours!
We've hidden poetry postcards - can you find one?
Look out for our pop-up gilt frames around town.
Invading your public spaces! Watch out!
Instead the city plants for lemons
Hilarious live comedy, find us out and about!
Live art by urban artist Emic.
Pop-up resident Irish choir at various Belfast landmarks.
Free rides powered by a human & guitarfuzz bananas.
Follow @belfastfestival to find Random Acts!
With ribbon and chalk we link commerce and culture.
Flow Yogis get funky in a parade down Hill St.
A whole new kind of guerrilla graffiti...
The Imp returns to torment the streets of Belfast!
A rowdy, pirate, party, percussion parade.


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An Incomplete Collection of Everyone Donald Trump Insulted in 2015 [VIDEO]
Love him or hate him, 2015 was the Year of Trump.
Muslim Freshman Arrested at Texas H.S. for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
A ninth grader in Texas named Ahmed Mohamed was detained by police after a teacher suspected his homemade clock was a bomb.
A Smashing Collection of Baseball Fans Running Onto the Field and Getting Tackled by Security
A compilation of "idiots on the field" who make baseball games all the more enjoyable with their security-eluding antics.
Guy Gets Pissed When His Illegally Parked Car Gets Completely Covered in Post-It Notes
Travel tip: If you ever go to Brazil, do not illegally park your car in a handicapped spot.
Boston Marathon Bomber Apologizes to Families at Final Court Hearing
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke in court Wednesday for the first time about the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon. "I would like to apologize to the victims and the survivors," he said. "I did do it."
Probably — No, Definitely the Best Badminton Shot You'll Watch All Day
You don't have enough badminton in your life, do you? To help with that, we've provided you with this pretty spectacular through-the-legs winner. (Is it called a winner? We kinda new to this sport.)
Step Up Your Grilling Game — Use Lava to Cook Your Steaks (Yes, LAVA)
You still use an actual grill to grill your meats? That's cute.
Don't Mess With the Discovery Channel's Twitter — Ask the Pittsburgh Penguins, Who Just Got Burned
Once in a while, the social media gods send us a gift. Today, it comes courtesy of the Discovery Channel, which was just doing its Discovery Channel thing by tweeting out a little flightless Antarctic bird factoid:
So THAT'S What Those Extra Shoelace Holes at the Top Are There For
You know those extra two shoelace holes that sit off to the side on your running shoes, just far enough that no one ever seems to use them? Did you think they were just a decoration? Turns out they actually do serve a purpose. Mystery solved!
Baltimore D.A. Announces Freddie Gray's Death Was a Homicide; 6 Officers Charged
The State's Attorney in Baltimore, Marilyn Mosby, announced on Friday morning that the coroner's office had ruled the death of Freddie Gray a homicide. Gray died while in police custody on April 19, setting off a wave of protests and violence in the city that lasted several days, garnering national attention.


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Disney's Where's My Mickey? Goes Free For First Time Ever As Apple's App Of The Week
Where's My Mickey? has just gone free on account of its having been selected by Apple as its App of the Week in the App Store.
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Today's Apps Gone Free: Where's My Mickey?, Carmageddon, Planner Plus And More
Today's AGF list includes a physics puzzler, a driving game, and a life planner.
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AppAdvice Game Of The Week For June 28, 2013
Tease your brain this weekend with these fun physics-based puzzle games!
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Today's Best Apps: Lumosity Mobile, Cover Orange 2, Where's My Mickey? And More
Discover the most useful and entertaining iOS apps from the last 24 hours.
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Join Disney's Famous Mascot In His Very Own Mobile Game, Where's My Mickey?
Disney has released Where's My Mickey?, the latest addition to its most popular mobile game franchise.
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| June 20
Disney's Most Iconic Character Makes Like Swampy And Perry In Where's My Mickey?
Disney is set to expand its most popular mobile game franchise with the release this week of Where's My Mickey?.
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The U.S. intelligence community is ill-prepared to assess Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities and its intentions for developing weapons of mass destruction, a congressional report said on Wednesday.
Noting "significant gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the various areas of concern about Iran," the House Intelligence Committee staff report questioned whether the United States could even effectively engage in talks with Tehran on ways to diffuse tensions.
The Bush administration said it was handling the problem.


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March of Time
From 1935 to 1951, Time Magazine bridged the gap between print & radio news reporting and the new visual medium of film, with March of Time: award-winning newsreel reports that were a combination of objective documentary, dramatized fiction and pro-American, anti-totalitarian propaganda. They "often tackled subjects and themes that audiences weren't used to seeing — foreign affairs, social trends, public-health issues — and did so with a combination of panache and subterfuge that today seems either absurd or visionary." (Previous two links have autoplaying video.) By 1937, the short films were being seen by as many as 26 million people every month and may have helped steer public opinion on numerous issues, including (eventually) America's entry to WWII. Video samples are available at Time.com, the March of Time Facebook page and the entire collection is available online, (free registration required) at HBO Archives. [more inside]
Consider my opinion changed.
Race in basketball
Are NBA referees racially biased when calling fouls? In a paper [PDF] released yesterday, economists Wolfers and Price claim that an all-white team would win two extra games over an 82-game season.
Cognitive biases and other fun tricks
You are very bad at making decisions. Welcome to the world of cognitive biases. They are why it is so easy to see conspiracies in the death of microbiologists, to be unaware of how incompetent we are, to regret our bids on eBay, and to be superstitious rationalists. Perhaps you should learn to use them before you are taken in. Finally, cognitive biases are why you will remember the end of this po
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Record heat sweeps DC, nation, and world — Washington Post staff sleepwalks through the story
Masters: "Extreme heat wave sets all-time high temperature records in Africa and Middle East"
As NOAA reported early this month, globally it's the warmest May, spring, and Jan-May on record. Steve Scolnik of Capital Climate put together this U.S. chart:
Total number of daily high and low temperature records set in the U.S., data from NOAA National Climatic Data Center, background image © Kevin Ambrose. Includes historical daily observations archived in NCDC's Cooperative Summary of the Day data set and preliminary reports from Cooperative Observers and First Order National Weather Service stations. All stations have a Period of Record of at least 30 years.
It's been so hot in DC — "The official Washington DC temperature of 99° at 2 pm today has already broken the heat record for June 24 set in 1894" — that even the Washington Post noticed. Sort of.
They assigned a whole team to write about it in a rare front page meteorological story, "Hot, with a chance of sweltering and stifling heat." The story begins promisingly:
First we were buried under Snowmageddon. Then we sweated through the hottest spring in Washington history. But that might have been only a warmup.
But the crack reporting team at the WashPost just can't seem to find any larger pattern, which is quite impressive given the credits on the piece. Kevin Sieff is the lead author but "Staff writers Hamil R. Harris, Chris Jenkins, Stephanie Lee, Phillip Lucas, Rick Rojas, Donna St. George and Josh White contributed to this report."
Wow! Eight staff writers worked on this piece — I've never seen a WP piece with this many contributors. It's sort of like the IPCC of WashPost weather stories. But without the climate part. Or the scientists.
Indeed, for all the record setting — the piece notes "This spring's average of 66.7 degrees was a half degree warmer than the average for spring 1991, formerly the warmest spring in Washington's history" — the WP doesn't mention what's going on nationwide or globally or quote a single climate scientist.
Worse, they even run these statements to downplay what is going on:
And although it was just Monday that marked the official transition from spring to summer, the first days of this new season feel all too familiar — the same soaring temperatures, the same hunt for respite….
D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said two extra ambulances were put to use Wednesday after a barrage of heat-related emergency calls. "Some people say it's getting hot earlier than usual," Piringer said. "This feels pretty normal to us."
Thank you so much D.C. fire department spokesman and apparently part-time climatologist Piringer for that assessment. And thank you so much team WashPost for quoting him as opposed to the countless experts in the DC area who work for, say, NOAA.
And yes, we are setting higher highs and few lower lows, as a 2009 National Center for Atmospheric Research study found:
This graphic shows the ratio of record daily highs to record daily lows observed at about 1,800 weather stations in the 48 contiguous United States from January 1950 through September 2009. Each bar shows the proportion of record highs (red) to record lows (blue) for each decade. The 1960s and 1970s saw slightly more record daily lows than highs, but in the last 30 years record highs have increasingly predominated, with the ratio now about two-to-one for the 48 states as a whole. (©UCAR, graphic by Mike Shibao.)
NCAR begins its release on this study (see "Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across U.S."):
Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
"Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says Gerald Meehl, the lead author and a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The ways these records are being broken show how our climate is already shifting."
Good to know the DC fire department is clueless on this important subject related directly to their work helping people during hot weather.
Sadly, for many if not most weather reporters — or metro reporters or maybe just most reporters — it's all just one of the greatest coincidences in human history (see "The NYT once again equates non-scientists "" Bastardi, Coleman, and Watts (!) "" with climate scientists" and "Is that airlifted snow on your Olympic ski mountain, or is your enormous helicopter just happy to see me?").
Sadly, for the rest of us, assuming we keep doing what we're doing, which is to say, nothing, NCAR predicts (and yes, they use the word "predictions" not "projections"):
The modeling results indicate that if nations continue to increase their emissions of greenhouse gases in a "business as usual" scenario, the U.S. ratio of daily record high to record low temperatures would increase to about 20-to-1 by mid-century and 50-to-1 by 2100.
In short, if you like it hot, you ain't seen nothing yet (see Our hellish future: Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over most of inland U.S. by 2090 with Kansas above 90°F some 120 days a year "" and that isn't the worst case, it's business as usual!").
Elsewhere on the planet, meteorologist Jeff Masters reports, "Extreme heat wave sets all-time high temperature records in Africa and Middle East":
A withering heat wave of unprecedented intensity and areal covered has smashed all-time high temperatures in four nations in the Middle East and Africa over the past week. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Chad, and Niger all set new records for their hottest temperatures of all time, and several other Middle East nations came within a degree of their hottest temperatures ever. The heat was the most intense in Iraq, which had its hottest day in history on June 14, 2010, when the mercury hit 52.0°C (125.6°F) in Basra. Iraq's previous record was 51.7°C (125.1°F) set August 8, 1937, in Ash Shu'aybah. It was also incredibly hot in Saudi Arabia, which had its hottest temperature ever on Tuesday (June 22): 52.0°C (125.6°F), measured in Jeddah, the second largest city in Saudi Arabia. The previous record was 51.7°C (125.1°F), at Abqaiq, date unknown. The record heat was accompanied by a sandstorm, which caused eight power plants to go offline, resulting in blackouts to several Saudi cities.
In Africa, Chad had its hottest day in history on Tuesday (June 22), when the temperature reached 47.6°C (117.7°F) at Faya. The previous record was 47.4°C (117.3°F) at Faya on June 3 and June 9, 1961. Niger tied its record for hottest day in history on Tuesday (June 22), when the temperature reached 47.1°C (116.8°F) at Bilma. That record stood for just one day, as Bilma broke the record again on Wednesday (June 23), when the mercury topped out at 48.2°C (118.8°F). The previous record was 47.1°C on May 24, 1998, also at Bilma.
Three countries came within a degree of their all time hottest temperature on record during the heat wave. Bahrain had its hottest June temperature ever, 46.9°C, on June 20, missing the all-time record of 47.5°C (117.5°F), set July 14, 2000. Temperatures in Quatar reached 48.8°C (119.8°F) on June 20. Quatar's all-time record hottest temperature was 49.6°C (121.3°F) set on July 9, 2000. It was also very hot in Kuwait, with temperatures reaching 51°C (123.8°F) in the capital on June 15. Kuwait's all-time hottest temperature was 51.9°C (125.4°F), on July 27,2007, at Abdaly. According to Essa Ramadan, a Kuwaiti meteorologist from Civil Aviation, Matrabah, Kuwait smashed this record and had Asia's hottest temperature in history on June 15 this year, when the mercury hit 54.0°C (129.2°F). However, data from this station is notoriously bad, and each year bogus record highs have to be corrected, according to an email I received from weather record researcher Maximiliano Herrera. Asia's hottest temperature in history will very likely remain the 53.5°C (128.3°F) recorded at MohenjuDaro, Pakistan on May 26 this year.
We've now had six countries in Asia and Africa that have beaten their all-time hottest temperature record during the past two months. As I discussed in my blog about Pakistan's May 26 record, Southeast Asia also had its all-time hottest temperature in May, when the mercury hit 47°C (116.6°F) in Myinmu, Myanmar on May 12. All of these records are unofficial, and will need to be certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). According to Chris Burt, author of Extreme Weather, setting four national heat records in one month is not unprecedented–in August 2003, five countries (the UK, France, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein) all broke their all-time heat records during that year's notorious summer heat wave. Fortunately, the residents of the countries affected by this week's heat wave are more adapted to extreme high temperatures, and we are not seeing the kind of death tolls experienced during the 2003 European heat wave (30,000 killed.)
This week's heat wave in Africa and the Middle East is partially a consequence of the fact that Earth has now seen three straight months with its warmest temperatures on record, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. It will be interesting to see if the demise of El Ni±o in May will keep June from becoming the globe's fourth straight warmest month on record.
If only scientists had warned us this might happen.
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66 Responses to Record heat sweeps DC, nation, and world — Washington Post staff sleepwalks through the story
Thanks for this post! I was sort of wondering if temps in the upper 90s in DC are now considered kind of normal, not worth reporting on in the "mainstream media," etc. You are right: teams of WaPo reporters must have melted down.
Second 2010 hurricane forms off Mexico (image showing both)
Current storm status Celia Category 4 hurricane
Current storm status Darby Category 1 hurricane
Jeez — how bad do these bozos have to get before they just disappear? Yes the Internet has effected the business model for newspapers, but you gotta think if they did one simple thing — report the news accurately with a healthy respect for facts — they'd be in much better shape than they are. I quit both the Post and the NYT when they blew the Iraq runup due to some misguided notion that balance was more important than accuracy or fact, but if I hadn't then I certainly would now, based on their climate reporting.
If you want to know why we're spending our time fighting for an energy bill that is too weak to actually do anything anyway, just look at the reporting — fuax facts and "balance" are why.
It's not balanced to put the considered opinions of the vast majority of the world's climate scientists on one side of the scale and a pile of elephant dung on the other — and I chose elephant dung as the counter weight advisedly.
Thanks, Joe, this really deserved a posting.
We're all toast.
The Post buries this fact in a 3rd page somewhere- 'The Weather Guy'….blah blah- saying that it is very warm- and that it might 'have' something to do with climate change….."
Yep— the heat is a weather event of course- but argumentatively the statistics add up over time.
I know over at the Union of Concerned Scientists the time period from 2010-2039 will see an increase of 90 plus and 100 degree temperatures on the east coast. The weather stats above- technically do not mean this is climate change- over time they do.
The NYT has an interesting '3rd or 4th page' article today about the military requesting the newest models on climate change- so they can plan accordingly.
As weather events such as heat waves, extreme precipitation events, droughts, wild fires, & melting ice increase causing societal havoc- the disinterested reporting currently from the Post and NYT may take on more urgency.
It's always nice to see some of your scathing criticism, Joe. Great post!
Global Temperature Anomalies, May 2010
In May 2010, temperature records assembled by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) showed wide expanses of slightly above- and slightly below-normal temperatures over most of the globe, but also dramatic warmth near the North Pole. Cooler-than-normal conditions occurred in parts of western North America, southern South America, Western Europe, and Central Asia. Unusually low temperatures also affected parts of Antarctica, especially west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Over much of the globe, however, high temperatures predominated.
This color-coded map shows global surface temperature anomalies for May 2010 compared to average temperatures for the same time of year from 1951 to 1980. Above-normal temperatures appear in shades of red, and below-normal temperatures appear in shades of blue. Gray areas indicate areas of insufficient data.
Especially warm temperatures—close to five degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above average—occur over most of the Arctic, including the northernmost reaches of North America, northwestern Greenland, and most of the northern coast of Eurasia. Unusually warm conditions also extend southward into Eastern Europe and Siberia. In Antarctica, warm conditions appear in some inland areas and especially over the Antarctic Peninsula.
Temperature anomalies in May continued a much longer trend. GISS compared the January–May mean surface temperature anomalies for 2010 to those of 2005 and 1998 (the two warmest years on record). January–May anomalies show 2010 to be the warmest out of 131 years (2005 is the fourth warmest and 1998 is the fifth warmest). Moreover, Arctic temperature anomalies are especially pronounced, and have been since the turn of the twenty-first century.
"Ongoing temperature anomalies like these are strong evidence of the Arctic amplification of global climate change," says Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The Arctic environment is very vulnerable to warming because of feedbacks that amplify the initial change. Sea ice retreat and snow melt reduce Earth's albedo, which can lead to increased warmth and further melting. Scambos explains that, although the Northern Hemisphere experienced significant snowfall in early 2010, spring melt was rapid, exposing land surfaces to sunlight sooner than usual.
"Where a lot of the big economies are—the United States, Western Europe, Japan—it's been cool, but the world as a whole is quite warm," Scambos observes. "The Sahel, the Indus Valley, and China didn't see a cool spring the way other areas did."
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More extreme weather today here in Connecticut
hot temps in the 90s- then a tornado touched down-or some kind of 'severe micro-burst' There has been severe damage to several buildings in Bridgeport – Many Trees downed, car windows blown out, Weird.
This is the 5th tornado seen this month – this is unprecedented.
Researchers Call for 'No-Regrets' Approach to Climate Warming
The strategy, detailed in the journal Science, prepares people for a hotter and drier Southwestern U.S. through water conservation and the continued development of ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and Earth.
Two prominent climate experts, including one from the University of Arizona, are calling for a "no-regrets" strategy for planning for a hotter and drier western North America. Their advice: use water conservatively and continue developing ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and Earth.
Jonathan Overpeck, principal investigator with the Climate Assessment for the Southwest at the UA, and Bradley Udall, director of the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado, write in the June 25 issue of the journal Science that such an approach is necessary for coping with a wide range of projected future climate changes in the West and Southwest.
In their overview of shifting climate in the region, Overpeck and Udall cite published findings of prevalent signs of change: rising temperatures, earlier snowmelt, northward-shifting winter storms, increasing precipitation intensity and flooding, record-setting drought, plummeting Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality and more large wildfires.
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Kindra introduces America to a new piece of lexicon :
Pony & Balloon
We should all have this type of 15 min. of fame.
My son and I were leaving the National Geographic Museum in downtown around 2 pm and is was good and hot. The exhibits there were quite good. One, on poverty breaking small scale technologies included a Mad Housers cabin that included a charcoal stove designed by a friend of mine. The Mad Housers are out of Atlanta http://www.madhousers.org/
The water in the pool in Waldorf was cool when we got back so we have kept cool despite the heat.
Peter –
That system had 80 mph winds in Chicago last night.
It occurs to me that with weather like this, Congress will have to go on vacation for June, July, August and September. This is the real reason libertarians support global warming I think.
99 degrees in Washington DC! Time to start building Senator Inhofe an igloo!
It'll need a lot of maintenance though.
" Get ready little lady , hell is coming to breakfast ".
Lone Watie
Colorado Bob
the 'storm' produced over 100pph winds in Bridgeport- there is a curfew in the city tonight- much damage-no power.
It's not so much that this story was terrible, but that this is about as good as it gets for climate journalism.
I think this story could have used a mention of the fact that by 2100, Washington, DC will see temps of 98 degrees 60 days a year, unless we do something. That's the kind of tangible reality that people can grab onto, more I think than sea levels rising or a 2-3-4-5 degree Celsius global rise in temperature.
What concerns me is that we are setting all these records in the midst of a "quiet" sun–the low point of the solar cycle. I shudder to think what it will be like in two or three years.
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Prescending from the leak problem, the clear cutting of forests, and the toxic waste, Jim Hansen has argued that the Tar Sands must be stopped if we have a chance to stop catastrophic global warming. The extraction process of oil from the Tar Sands produces 2 to 3 times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional oil.
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Citizen letters really can make a difference, so please write. It can be a brief letter, even briefer than the following (Please do not copy this letter. If you want to use the ideas of this letter that is fine, but it is important that they do not receive identical letters):
To Whom It May Concern,
Climate scientists have made it quite clear that if we do not rapidly move off fossil fuels such that our economy is virtually decarbonized in 40 years we run unimaginable risks that include threatening global food and water security, the devastation of major cities and coastlines around the world (including Miami, New York, New Orleans, and Boston), and mass migrations of people that will most likely lead to conflict (as it has in the case of Darfur). The tar sands project is accelerating us into the climate catastrophe because extracting oil from the tar sands produces 2 to 3 times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional oil and part of the process involves clear cutting of sections of the boreal forest. In this context, supporting the Tar Sands project by building a pipeline from the Canadian Tar Sands through the United States would be terribly destructive.
This is a great post. How many Washington Post reporters does it take to make sure the story of our times is not put into its proper context?
If you want to save money on expensive time travel and get a glimpse of our future, go to the Middle East or Africa this week or your could've gone to Pakistan or Myanmar last month.
National all-time record or near all-time record temperatures have combined with electrical outages, including eight power plants shutting down in Saudi Arabia, to make life unbearable. Many of the places along the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea or Bay of Bengal can also have humidity readings comparable to those in the American South.
And just because reports haven't been similar to those of the August, 2003 European heat wave doesn't mean there isn't intense suffering. In Europe when many families were on vacation their elderly parents and grandparents were left alone in apartments without air conditioning. In most other cultures including those mentioned above the elderly are more likely to live with families looking out for them, and the pre-air conditioning architecture includes thicker walls with more insulation that can moderate temperatures, like living underground. (By the way, Jeff Masters, the most complete accounting of the European heat wave death tolls appears to me to have been done by EarthWatch, which tabulated that death toll at 52,000 instead of the more commonly reported 30,000 you and others use – I think this is a case where most of us quote each other, and EarthWatch did the most homework, and so I now use their figure. By the way, because of this and the 1995 heat wave tragedy in Chicago where an estimated 900 elderly residents died, families and institutions wouldn't allow the same events to create such havoc again – but other factors will lead to additional problems, most notably dwindling budgets and resources.)
Taking poorly-insulated houses and building them in places like Phoenix and relying on coal (almost half of U.S. electricity) power plants to provide mega-air conditioning is the very definition of both insane and unsustainable. When the stuff goes south in the American South – as it inevitably will at some point – the suffering there will also be incalculable.
Of course 99 per cent of Americans – it sometimes feels like almost everyone except CP readers – appears oblivious to this.
What we need is to develop empathy for the suffering of others, even if they're in these far-off lands and cultures, so that we can mitigate their suffering and someday our own.
And Prokaryote (sorry I butchered your name – and a goat – in the World Cup Post just below): While Qatar's solar stadium is impressive, can you imagine what it would be like for millions of soccer enthusiasts in the region getting around and living in 120 degree heat – with an increased likelihood over time of electrical brown-outs and black-outs? That's one World Cup I wouldn't mind missing.
Minor nitpick: The country name is "Qatar", not "Quatar".
Good post, Joe. I did a Google news search of "heat wave" the other day, because I know it's been pretty hot recently here, but I was really surprised by the number of news items that popped up, and from all over the Northern Hemisphere. It seems the heat has really been impressive in parts of north Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
This, of course, on top of the national and international epidemic of flash flooding, record low Arctic sea ice, and four straight months of record-breaking global temperatures. And it looks like hurricane season is about to begin here in the North Atlantic. Welcome to global climate disruption, people! Of course, you won't see Anthony Watts or any of the "skeptics" discussing this in their "weather is not climate" pieces.
Peter –
Roger that .
One thing I've been doing for 10 years is watching " Observed Events ". Ever since I watched iceberg B-15 calf off in Antarctica. What everyone doesn't know is what the nature of the AGW hypothesis predicted low those many years ago. Needless to say the deniers over the years have told me I don't know the difference between weather and climate, I tell them that weather is what's landing on your head today, climate is what landed on it yesterday. I for one believe that's where the story got lost.
The narrative was always about some model somewhere saying that "X" would occur in some distant point in time . Never that we would see mega fires, like Greece
3 summers ago , the Australian fires in the winter of 09′, or the pounding that is going on in south China now. 50 inches of rain as of now ?
My head is full of these stories , not that it's going to be 3 degrees C warmer in 2 or 3 decades.
Example :
The day before the Black Saturday event, the temps in the northern suburbs of Melbourne were 117 degrees …… The fruit bats were dropping dead from the trees. Stories like that move people, not reports from the latest model run of what 2050 will look like.
" There are no deniers working on a wild fire crew anywhere in the world now. "
I might add that Matt Drudge did have some articles about the heat, flooding, and severe weather. Of course, he also posted an article about Paul McCartney comparing climate deniers to Holocaust deniers. Of course, Drudge Report still isn't very balanced. I mean if hits 20 in DC in January, Drudge acts like we're heading into the next ice age. Plus, his trick is to post the national wind chill map to make it look a lot colder than it actually is. I don't see him posting any national heat index maps – even though heat is an even bigger killer.
Richard Miller, @18: Thank you for the heads up and the State Department link.
Letter is a done deal…
How much time do most reporters, pundits, politicians and lobbyists spend outside of their climate-controlled zone? As long as the air-conditioning is on it's not really hot.
This is a great post. I hope everyone who reads it writes to the Post. I am convinced that their attempt at "balanced" coverage is largely because they are afraid of taking too much heat from the climate change deniers. They need to here loud and clear from our side to get them to pay attention to the facts. It's sad that they need extra prodding to to cover to what used to be legitimate news stories, but that's just the way it is. I really suggest everyone send them an e-mail or letter to the editor.
This is just bizarre behavior by the msm.
The recent extreme events , flood, heatwave, temp records are all SHOUTING, SCREAMING that the system is busting under globawarming forcing. Yet they are impotent.
How can they not connect the dots? How can they not get it? How can they not see what the consequences are going to be in even a decades time?
These are people who are smart, who are reviewing the data, who are accessing the cliamate experts, who report on the extreme events and yet completely miss the ball (go USA!)
Are we really as lowly as brainless frogs?
I contacted my Uncle yesterday, who lives in Union Beach, NJ, that it would hit 91º F today and it came true. One of my high school classmates told me her A/C broke down and she is sweltering in the heat.
Here in Finland, in the main media, there have been reports of the soaring temperatures in the middle east, and Northeast Brazil floods and most of the other ones too, no connection to climate change have been made, though. After Midsummer I'm offline for the next 2 weeks, off to Lapland to see if I can spot some of the arctic species I've not yet seen, and checking how some Autumn and Winter Moth outbreak areas look compared to other areas. Better do it this year than later.
Perhaps some of you might be aware having watched the recent winter olynpics, that
Vancouver experienced it's warmest January on record, by a long shot. In the lead
up to the games I watched the little snow that the north shore mountains already had receed day by day to almost nothing. The preceeding July saw our all time high temperature record broken, which was broken again the following day. On the other hand Cliff Mass, a climatologist out of Seattle says we are well positioned here for the next few decades since we reside on the northeast Pacific coast and receive it's moderating influence. I worry in the future that we may become the destination of climate refugees.
It's one thing to talk about trends in the ratio of record highs to record lows–that's meaningful information.
But going gaga over regional conditions for a specific day just provides fuel to the deniers. We chastise them for using Snowmageddon to "debunk" climate change, then turn around and get all excited because it's hot in DC. Bit of a disconnect there.
Sorry, but I'd like to caution everyone against doing in summer exactly what we criticize the deniers for doing in winter. Local short-term weather is local short-term weather, whether it's abnormally hot or abnormally cold. It's not climate.
[JR: Uhh, you have made any multiple false equivalence. First, I am writing about all-time records over extended period of time (spring in DC) in the context of relevant trend data on national highs vs. lows data in the context of global temperature record. It was Washington Post who pointed out this was a record warm spring. That is "news" and not a coincidence that globally this was the hottest spring on record and scientists have been predicting we would see more record warmth.
This winter was not an all time record cold in the U.S. or even Washington DC, and, of course, record precipitation is precisely what you would expect from warming, not cooling. So your 'objection' makes no sense at all.
Go back and read my criticisms. You have bought into the disinformer spin on what happened in the winter.
Oh and the disinformers make crap up know matter what anyone does. Everything is "fuel" for them.]
ChrisD wrote: "But going gaga over regional conditions for a specific day just provides fuel to the deniers."
I'll tell you what I'm "going gaga over" as far as the record-breaking, life-threatening heat wave in DC.
It's not intellectualizing about the difference between weather and climate.
It's the visceral realization that in the not too distant future, this is what it is going to be like around here for two or three months every year, rather than on occasional days in July in most years, and for two straight weeks in June once every hundred years.
ChrisD wrote: "We chastise them for using Snowmageddon to 'debunk' climate change …"
The reason I chastised "them" for doing that was not because they improperly conflated an extreme weather event with climate change.
It was because "Snowmageddon" was exactly the type of extreme precipitation event that climate science tells us will become more frequent as a result of global warming, and was in fact part of a national pattern of increasing extreme precipitation events, so that by asserting that the blizzards were contrary to the predictions of AGW, "they" were just plain lying. The blizzards were the exact opposite — a clear confirmation of the predictions of global warming.
Once watched a talk by a climate scientist who was
involving herself with how to help New York city
resolve its flooding issues. Public works was already
having issues with public cervices. Well she also
worked with the IPCC and revealed a consideration
as to why the report didn't include many feedback
issues about climate change. She had a strange
look on her face as she explained that it was
too scary for the public to be so involved in what
steps needed to be undertaken for the continuation
of public safety and services.
It could be true that the baby shouldn't be overly
involved in what the real driver is doing.
My mom used to hate it when my brothers used to scream
with me as she tried to drive.
She knew how to drive though.
Local record temps in one place does not prove global warming, just like local cold temperatures does not prove the opposite. However, the record high global average temps prove that we are in a warming period, and when all natural drivers point towards cooling (this is why "scientists" that ignored the CO2 signal predicted cooling instead of the warming that is now observed) we have a clear indication that the warming we are seeing is due to human emissions of heat trapping greenhouse gases. Record high local temperatures is a natural result of the higher avarage global temperatures. The MSN needs to start making people aware that the global temps are at record levels, and that the extreme weather events we are observing pretty much every week are predicted results of the increased heat content.
Third death from heat in Tennessee:
Slightly off topic but I thought this was important:
Check out this story about pine bark beetle infestation in British Columbia, its an economic disaster:
The money quote is where they say it's being caused by 'strange weather patterns' and 'no one knows why'. I think everyone here knows why. Joe, you'd better tell 'em.
The real danger, of course, is not of more hot days per year.
The real danger is that the global heating could become self-sustaining, and run away, leading to a methane catastrophe.
It's all happening way too fast. This is more like Lovelock's sudden shift from one stable climate state to a second, much hotter state of the climate, than it is like the IPCC and MSM projections. We hope that the tropical, ice cap free state of the climate will be stable, but we cannot know that for sure. It has happened in the past, apparently, that such sudden change has triggered positive feedback reinforcement that created mass extinctions. There are several events like this in the fossll record, including the End Permian mass extinction, which killed something like 90% of all species on earth, and raised global average temperatures by more than 10 degrees C.
Check out the book Under a Green Sky for a paleoclimatologist's look at just how badly this could all turn out.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel like sh*t.
Has anyone constructed an adobe hut in DC and labeled it "Inhofe's new home"?
I'm struggling to understand the lead graph. Is the y-axis a count of locales where the record-high temp has been surpassed? If so, perhaps a ratio of the count of record-breaking highs vs total count of available measurements would be more meaningful. The temperature anomalies maps from the NOAA posted to capital climate on 6/21 (http://capitalclimate.blogspot.com/2010/06/global-temperature-trifecta-warmest-may.html) are far better way to convey meaning. I couldn't really read the rest of your post (it was sent as a link from a friend) as the lead graph is just killing me. You have to get that stuff right if you want more than cheerleaders in your audience
[JR: Sorry you're dying. Read the post before commenting next time. The links help too.]
Aw, Leland Palmer! Take a deep breath!! We do not want you to be feeling like sh*t.
Did you read With Speed and Violence by Fred Pearce? Or Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton? Those cheered me right up.
It also helps when I pretend I am only a character in a novel.
My comment was aimed mainly at the comments, not at your post, Joe. I specifically said that the trend in records is useful information.
JR: You have bought into the disinformer spin on what happened in the winter.
No, I have not. I consistently write that any cold weather was regional, not global; that globally the winter was unusually warm, not unusually cold; and that increased snow is completely consistent with climate change. I've explained this hundreds of times, along with the details about why more warming means more snow, all over the net. So what have I "bought into", Joe?
My point is very simple. We rightly criticize the "skeptics" for "Global warming is a scam, it was record cold here in South Mudflap last night."
Then we turn around and talk about how hot it was yesterday in DC and Union Beach, NJ. This is not good.
JR: Oh and the disinformers make crap up no matter what anyone does. Everything is "fuel" for them.
I'm well aware of that. Doesn't mean we should hand them lit Molotov cocktails.
Honestly, you guys seem a bit touchy. I'm on your side, not theirs. Sorry for bothering you.
[JR: The way you bought into their spin was by equating talking about record-smashing warmth around the globe — which is precisely what climate scientists have been predicting — with claiming that just moderately cold weather and record precipitation somehow undercuts AGW. If talking about record-smashing warmth is "handing them lit Molotov cocktails" then there ain't much to talk about — and they win!]
Paulm (#28):
"There is this guy….."
He's not employed by WaPo, merely an online-only contractor.
Chris D., we are not cherry-picking isolated incidents. We are talking about clearly discernible TRENDS and repeated record-breaking violent weather events, like this one:
Says the Washington Post article:
It is likely to stay hot for the next several days, with highs in the 90s, according to the National Weather Service. High temperatures Thursday are predicted to near three digits.
But some, such as Jason Jackson of Alexandria, say those devices don't reflect the true heat.
Looks like there's a paragraph missing. Sloppy editing?
I wonder how hot it was over at the University of Virginia. I mention this because of a claim by Pat Michaels, which I debunk. The gist is that Michaels claims air conditioning eliminates heat waves as a mortality concern. An NIH study of the 1980 and 1995 heat waves in St. Louis refutes him, reporting, "The findings show that St. Louis remains at risk of heat wave mortality. In addition, there is evidence that vulnerability has increased despite increased air-conditioning penetration and public health interventions."
For the details, go to:
and scroll down to "A Tellingly Testable Hypothesis: Michaels (2006)."
I should find the time to update those pages…
C02 may be a critical micro nutrient for plants, but that is under ideal conditions. The highest CO2 levels in 800,000 years are not helping these crops during the heat wave.
On a side note, let us hope that the tropical disturbance approaching the Yucatan Peninsula does not move into the Gulf and strengthen.
Wow, this is harder than it should be.
I am not talking about trends. I am not talking about recordsetting warmth all over the globe.
I'm talking about "It was hot yesterday in Union Beach, NJ, and my friends are sweltering in the heat" and "It was hot yesterday outside the National Geographic Museum." Both are in comments right here.
Please read what I actually said: I cautioned against making anything out of "regional conditions on a specific day." Nothing about trends. Nothing about recordsetting global heat waves.
Just about how hot it was in your back yard yesterday.
Wit's End: We are talking about clearly discernible TRENDS….
If that were the case I wouldn't have a problem. But some of the comments are not talking about trends. Some are about local conditions on a single day. Those are the ones that bother me. Those are no different from, "Global warming is a hoax. It was cold in my back yard yesterday."
"It's sort of like the IPCC of WashPost weather stories. But without the climate part. Or the scientists."
You slay me Joe. Move over Mark Twain.
ChrisD: I doubt that many people who read and contribute to this site believe that
any one particular extreme weather event is proof of global warming. And, I don't think anyone actually said it was. I don't think it is invalid to simply state individual facts. You draw your own conclusions.
RobR: No, I don't think that anyone here believes that a hot day validates global warming. But re-reading my posts, especially the last message, I can see how it could be read that way. This was not my intent.
My issue isn't with what anyone here thinks. It with posting a sort of casual "oh, man, it was so hot that …" comment here, where it can be misused.
Trust me, I get this all the time in comments. Some idiot posts the usual "It's cold, Gore's a moron" comment; I respond with a nice explanation about how that's local, it's short-term, it doesn't mean anything, blah blah blah; I get back, "Oh yeah? How come I saw this?" followed by a cut & paste of someone somewhere talking about how hot it was somewhere.
It's frustrating, is what it is.
[JR: Frustrating indeed. But I'm not going to let the disinformation from the disinformers stop me from discussing record smashing heat waves or superstorms.]
ChrisD: Fair enough. Joe: Keep up the good work!
RobR, nail on the head. The comments I saw were simply observations of fact, being shared. No claims were made that such anecdotes were proof of anything (unlike the deniers that frustrate ChrisD). So now can we please just talk and share our thoughts without over-dissecting? For me, the Romm'n'Legions have been the most civil, patient, and understanding community on the web. So many others of full of vitriol. It is a relief to visit Joe's blog and find comprehensive, vital information and learn even more from the commenters and the links they add to supplement the posts.
I was wondering the same thing. The contrarians are good at putting on a show when localized conditions seem momentarily in their favor. So where are the activists constructing Inhofe's new hut (maybe in a pool of "meltwater")outside a government building or major media outlet? Maybe creative messaging isn't such a strong point.
Tropical Storm Alex bears down on the Yucatan; extreme heat for Africa and Russia
Now imagine how might the weather be with doubling of Co2 or just 5 years from now.
Is it really worth to risk the survival of our species just to keep burning fossils? Even if we stop ALL emission today -it is not enough – start with carbon negative action, now.
The fact is, as Bill McKibben pointed out years ago in The End Of Nature, that NO individual weather event anywhere in the world today, "extreme" or otherwise, is NOT affected by anthropogenic global warming.
We live in a globally warmed world now. The weather is not and never again will be what it was before we warmed the world.
SecularAnimist: That is a good point in the sense that any particular weather is at least partly an expression of a changing climate regime.
I've been thinking about this question of how to communicate about global warming for some time, and this is how I see it.
The distinction between "proof" and "evidence" is critical. Proof is simple: take two identical planet Earths (or more, larger test and control groups are more reliable), introduce more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere of one and not the other, and wait to see what happens. If the planet with more greenhouse gases warms more, AND other scientists can replicate your results, you have proof.
That being the case, there will never be "proof" of global warming–just more and more (and more) evidence until we decide, one by one, that the body of evidence that has accumulated is convincing enough to amount to proof. In this age of hyper-partisanship and disinformation, some will never be convinced. Others will become professional deniers because they are paid by industries that produce greenhouse gases. Still others, especially mainstream media, will waffle or go MIA because (1) controversies attract more attention and (2) fossil fuel companies spend very large amounts of money on advertising.
What is evidence? Glacier melt, increasing sea temperatures, a growing imbalance between the number of record highs and record lows, an increase in the number of extreme rain events, and so on–all of the large volume of data the IPCC is painstakingly assembling.
With that in mind, how do we talk about a record high?
"No single weather event is proof of global warming. However, recent decades have seen more and more new record high temperatures and fewer and fewer record low temperatures. This latest record is consistent with that pattern of evidence indicating that global warming is a real and serious problem."
Is a single record high temperature a "global-warming-type event?" I don't really think so. How about a record heat wave? Maybe–there's a better case, especially if the science tells us we are seeing more and more heat waves of unprecedented intensity. A record rain event? Same as heat waves.
Have I contributed anything? Beats me. But I feel strongly that keeping the distinction between "proof" and "evidence" in mind when talking about this issue is important to making headway in the public dialogue.
Tom: What you said was almost exactly what I was thinking. I didn't think that ChrisD or SecularAnimist's points were contradictory. It's like a panel of jurists assessing forensic information that continues to increase. How many pieces of separate information do you need before you can render judgement?
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Russian weather forecasters say, not since 1981, has it been this hot for this long in June.
And it's not just the people who are struggling in the scorching conditions. One driver said if he doesn't prop open the hood of his car, the engine overheats and it breaks down.
City Hall is sending out trucks to water the streets. The heat is melting the tarmac in some places and people's shoes are getting stuck.
Oh, I impress my self sometimes.
Smart people do address me.
Happy B-day Joe.
Weather, or climate? Irony for sure, as the Senate keeps its thumb firmly jammed in the business end of the sausage machine, assuring no C02 mitigation progress:
WASHINGTON — Senator Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in United States history, is "seriously ill," his office announced Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Byrd, a 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, was admitted to an undisclosed hospital late last week with symptoms of heat exhaustion and severe dehydration as temperatures in the Washington area approached 100 degrees. Though he was initially expected to remain hospitalized for only a few days, Mr. Byrd's condition deteriorated and his doctors are now describing it as "serious," a spokesman said.


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Traditional GCSE grades of A*-G are to be scrapped and replaced with a numbered scale under the biggest reforms of the exams for decades.
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