I think our last rain was sometime in May.  The heat has definitely been going up each year - we first moved here in 2000 and there were only 4-5 days that were over 100 in the height of the summer.  Now it is customary to be in the 100’s for 10-15 days or more.  The previous heat records are being broken almost every day.

I’ll deal with the heat, deal with the high electric bills and everything else, but I’m very concerned about what this means on a global level.

Am I worried?  You bet I am.

If you have the time, read Al Gore’s new book, a total eyeopener.  Quick read, easy to understand.  Should be required reading for those who continue to brush all global warming concerns aside..followed by a “quiz!”

We didn’t break 90 today, and we’re in the tropics.

I think the climatologists are right.

Currently, we’re experiencing 40 degrees (Celsius) and a tad more outside. As I live just below the roof in a positively huge apartment, that 40-degree heat has a way of collecting inside, heating up once more and hitting the 45-degree mark ... the lack of any sort of breeze being the reason for that. In my workroom then, add the heat from a high-speed RAID-system, and what you’ve got is Dante’s inferno ... times two.

It’s a good excuse to have some ice-cold stiff drinks (just to add another two degrees or so of internal body temperature caused by whatever Rum does to your body when it does what it does).

I complained about the long-lasting cold all winter, so .. I’m. Not. Going. to. Complain. Now.

Not.
At.
All.

:/

I think the climatologists are right, too. They are freaking out and no one pays attention.

Has anyone seen Al Gore’s movie? Is his book a companion to the movie? I must read it. He’s been talking along these lines for ages and, yeah, no one pays attention.

The climate is changing. I read an article recently on how the sugar maple trees in the northeast are beginning to die out and are beginning to grow far north of where they do now. The maple sugar industry is seeing significant declines in production. It’s only a matter of (not much) time, they contend, before it’s an industry of the past in the northeast. That’s a really bad sign.

Volkher, I sympathize. Electronic equipment just compounds the heat. And in my house, too, the heat collects on the top floor where all our electronic equipment lives. It’s miserable. We all know that Kate readily complains about the weather, winter and summer, so feel free to get vicarious benefit.

Today, however, there is a seabreeze and it’s lovely. For the first time in days, I have the windows and doors open to channel those lovely breezes into the house and the air is crisp. This is about as near perfect as it can get.

sssshhhhhh, I am whispering.  I just had to go get socks, my feet are freezing...my computer is next to the slider that goes to the deck and it is open and I am afraid to close it cause someone else in this house will laugh at me cause just a day or so ago, I was begging for a breeze, any breeze.  Ssssshhhhh......

I hear ya. We’ll probably all come down with summer colds any day now....

My upstairs is still hot (87°). The downstairs is about 20 degrees cooler—had to close the slider ‘cuz Terry was cold. Just can’t seem to strike a happy medium around here.