The Heat of August

It's like Texas hot here in NY! And you think it's hot here, in Dallas, some woman on TV was frying eggs on her dashboard!

The cruel irony is that we're making things hot ourselves. I'm not talking about *Global Warming, but A/C. Everybody's A/C is running and dumping heat into the outside air (just stand in front on the outside of your aircon and you'll feel it). In fact for every degree an A/C unit cools your room, it's dumping 4 degrees of heat into the outside air. That's part of the reason why the temperature in cities is 10-15 degrees warmer (that and the lack of vegitation).

*By the way, "global warming" is a scientific fact: it's been getting warmer since the last Ice Age!

In fact a Harvard study shows average global temperatures were warmer in during the Middle Ages and I don't remember a lot of people driving around in SUV's back then. How's that for an Incovenient Truth?

Global temperatures have only risen on average, 1.2 degrees in the last 150 years.
That's it.
This recent 10 year spate in record breaking heat is no more dramatic than one that occurred 75 years ago; remember the Dust Bowl of the 30's? Life is about cycles but the average American only lives 75 years, so every generation thinks "This is the worst it's ever been."

So when you hear the media panic about the menace of Global Warming, pardon the pun: just chill.