“GET USED TO IT” –NASA GUY

Posted on Sunday 30 July 2006

Northern California, withering under last week’s punishing heat, wasn’t the only hot spot in the world this year — thermometers have spiked throughout much of the United States, Canada and Europe, and scientists are predicting more intense, longer and more frequent heat waves in the future.

Yes, the planet is heating up (San Francisco Chronicle)

Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.

More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought (AP)


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