July is likely to be the hottest month ever, according to just-released data from climate scientists.
Then August will no doubt beat July.
But everything’s perfectly alright isn’t it
I was just thinking that I’ve mowed the lawn shockingly few times so far this year, between the heat and lack of rain.
Usually June and July are twice a week or more to keep up. This year, there were weeks I didn’t mow at all.
I know it’s anecdata, but it’s a meaningful metric to me…
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Hank Hill must be in crisis right now
We made the decision to not even try watering the lawn this year. Guess it was a good call.
My grass is now 100% dead. So we’re half my bushes and shrubs at my house. I can’t even grow a vegetable garden for the past few years because of the heat, it’s just too intense. Even tomatoes don’t grow.
How do you record the temperature from 120’000 years ago?
My guess would be Ice Cores.
From Wikipedia:
"An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years. Cores are drilled with hand augers (for shallow holes) or powered drills; they can reach depths of over two miles (3.2 km), and contain ice up to 800,000 years old.
The physical properties of the ice and of material trapped in it can be used to reconstruct the climate over the age range of the core. The proportions of different oxygen and hydrogen isotopes provide information about ancient temperatures, and the air trapped in tiny bubbles can be analysed to determine the level of atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide. Since heat flow in a large ice sheet is very slow, the borehole temperature is another indicator of temperature in the past. These data can be combined to find the climate model that best fits all the available data.
Although, it’ll probably be one of the coolest months for the next while.
Time to stake a nice beach front property on Hudson’s Bay. It will replace become the new summer destination after Florida has completely submerged to the ocean.
Wouldn’t the Hudson Bay beach front be submerged too? Or is their beach a few meters above the water?
There’s more shoreline to spare.
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