Well, if it's true, it's pretty incredible.

After all, You can't be too careful.

This twitpic from ThinkProgress claims that there were 362 record highs recorded in the US last year, and 0 record lows. That seems almost impossible, right? Even a very, very biased coin is going to come up tails at least once in 362 trials with near certainty. ( Read more... )

Percent of Republicans who believe in global warming: 48%.
Percent of Republicans who believe in demonic possession: 68%

From Harper's Index via Daily Kos

North Carolina Sea Level Rises Despite Senators

Scientific American

More than 99% of North Dakota had no snow on the ground Friday morning

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2010

Over the last few days, due to very high temperatures, the staff of the zoo has provided animals with extra portions of frozen fruit to help them fight the heat.

Via Andrew Sullivan

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Earlier in the week, the ((climate change)) conference heard that the ((Church)) ministers had blamed homosexuals for climate change in Samoa.

Fiji Times

An interesting calculation, claiming to show that Saturday, January 16th, 2010 was the warmest day on Earth since satellites starting measuring temperatures, and (I'm extrapolating) possibly the warmest day in millenia.

If I look back 100 years to 1909, and go over the events Wikipedia notes as significant, there is only one that I was more than remotely aware of: Perry (almost) making it to the North Pole (and I didn't know for sure that it happened in 1909). And one that seemed to have real historical significance even though at the time it probably seemed minor ( Read more... )

...imagine the international terminal at JFK, but with even worse food and people walking by in giant tree costumes.

-- Nate Silver, describing the scene at the Copenhagen conference on climate change, where "the beer is cheaper than the Coca-Cola".