Here's something for sleepy time Todd. Good thing there's no such thing as global climate change.

It really is hot in here: U.S. has warmest 12 months on record

Americans just lived through the hottest 12 months ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday.

The announcement came as NOAA reported that the U.S. also just experienced its third-warmest April on record.

“These temperatures, when added with the first quarter and previous 11 months, calculate to the warmest year-to-date and 12-month periods since recordkeeping began in 1895,” the agency reported.

NOAA said that for the period from May 2011 to April 2012, the nationally averaged temperature was 55.7 degrees, 2.8 degrees higher than the 20th century average. The national average temperature for April was 55 degrees, 3.6 degrees above average.

To be sure, the higher temperatures haven’t hit every region equally. The Pacific Northwest actually saw cooler-than-average temperatures over the past year, according to NOAA data. Much of California was also cooler than normal; Southern California had an average year.

But record averages for the year scorched central Texas — which saw a horrific drought last year — the upper Midwest, and much of the Northeast.

Globally, hotter temperatures are simply a way a life now, according to the Associated Press.

The last time the globe had a month that averaged below its 20th century normal was February 1985. April makes it 326 months in a row. Nearly half the population of the world has never seen a month that was cooler than normal, according to United Nations data.

So, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: global warming.

Time magazine's Paul Tullis explains how the math around high temperatures has collided with politics and how some of that is changing.

“Even with a multitude of extreme weather events in recent years — tornadoes in New York City, blizzards in Washington, D.C., 15,000 warm-temperature records shattered across the U.S. in March — each consistent with computer models of a warming world, [respected MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry] Emanuel and many other noted scientists have been unwilling to attribute any one event to global warming,” Tullis wrote last week. “There’s just too much variability in the weather, these experts say, and their dedication to data has helped prop open the door for ‘denialists’ to sow doubt about the reality of our warming world.”

But a new peer-reviewed report by NASA climatologist James E. Hanson, along with a high-profile op-ed in the New York Times, “indicates that the unwillingness to point fingers may be changing,” Tullis says.

NOAA’s latest analysis doesn’t go there, instead just sticking to the numbers.

yep too many cows...

I appreciate you posting that. It is funny though that they went after Clinton just for lying about a hummer and the mainstream media wont touch this subject.
Nobody's whipping a dead horse on this one. They gotta find the horse first.

You're the go to guy on conspiracies Todd so is it,

- Taitz/Trump theory that President Obama is a "secret Muslim Kenyan"

OR

- World Net Daily/ Jerome Corsi theory that President Obama’s grandfather wasn’t a furniture salesman but an undercover CIA agent who convinced Barack Obama Sr. to marry his teenage daughter to hide the fact that she was impregnated by a 55-year-old communist named Frank Marshall Davis so that someday he could be a secret communist president posing as a secret Muslim Kenyan president.

Of course Corsi also believes that Barack Obama was a space alien brought here to help Hitler take over France but that the time-traveling plotters involved got their timing wrong by 70 years or so.


Inquiring minds really want to know Todd.

Hey Mikie,

Can you send me over some Maui Onion Potato Chips?

I be jonesing!!!!

Looks like you could buy them online for cheaper than what it would cost me to ship.

Once you figure which conspiracy theory is correct Todd could you determine if you're pro or anti rubble? Thanks!

Hello, human diary. Mitt here.

There was a brief kerfluffle today when a fellow wealthy American (a sports team owner, as many of my acquaintances are) was purported to be considering re-launching old 2008 attacks on Barack Obama involving the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who I understand to be a bad person—even though he is religious, which is a bit confusing, since normally all religious individuals are by definition good and correct. I believe I have diffused the situation with my response: I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described. (I am quite pleased with myself for formulating it in this efficient matter, as now I shall be able to use the precise same wording for any number of future incidents throughout the campaign.)

I am currently quite irritated, Mr. Diary, with the campaign of character assassination against me. I have always attempted to campaign in a generally positive way, although there have been many times in which I have repudiated the effort by a PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described. Generally, I have avoided speaking at all whenever possible, but during the debates I was always careful to say only positive things about President Obama. I think the videotapes will indicate the accuracy of this statement, and if they do not than I repudiate the efforts by those videotapes to promote a strategy of the nature they have described. Nonetheless, the opposing campaigns have consistently attempted to portray me in a negative fashion, which is unfair.

I think it only proper that no campaign should be allowed to bring up my past record or behaviors when I was in school, or when I was a businessman, or when I was a governor. Bringing up past actions on my part is nothing more than character assassination. My opponents should be required to limit their discussions to things I have done only during this particular campaign; also, my opponents should not be allowed to bring up things I may have said or done during this campaign. I strongly repudiate their strategies that are of the nature they have described.

Today, I visited New Hampshire once again, where I briefly bantered with the local commoners at the Sawyer Bridge, in Hillsborough. It is a very picturesque stone bridge, and is of significant historical interest. I understand that this bridge received over $150,000 in stimulus monies in order to effect repairs, however; this seems imprudent. It is true that the bridge is quite picturesque, but I think it would be equally picturesque as a pile of rubble. And rubble also has economic value, does it not?

I have asked Eric F. to draft an ad campaign around the idea that Barack Obama is anti-rubble, and that these "stimulus" efforts are unacceptably standing in the way of the rubble industry. It is doubtful we will be able to promote such an advertisement ourselves because of my unrelentingly positive nature, but I am certain one of our supporting PACs will be able to use the idea, upon which I shall repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they have described.


Do you think Mitt met Sparky?

stretch, yawn

Seems the white Hispanic dude should have stayed in the car, locked the windows and waited for police to arrive... just saying..

Will Mitt move to your state Todd? What is your state?

Hello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt Romney, your better.

Today has not been a good day. I mentioned before that the previous Republican occupant of the White House had endorsed me; for some reason this led to me having to have a phone conversation with him today. I am still unclear why. He is a nice enough fellow, and I attempted to bond with him over our mutual love of elevators, and riding in elevators, and putting things into elevators. I believe he enjoyed my banter. (I also invited him to come view our many fine horses, but he was strangely quiet during that part of the conversation.)

I mentioned to an audience of commoners yesterday that if my wife and I were going to move to any place in America, I would move to their state. This was a brilliant move on my part, especially because I was able to correctly remember which state I was in at the time. Note to self: Do not repeat this trick too often, when reporter units are present.

Speaking of reporter units, Eric F. has instituted a new plan. The old plan was to block them from attending certain events or asking questions; they responded to this in a negative fashion. The new plan is for me to engage them in human banter. My understanding is that I need to appear likable, even though few of these reporters are in my peer group when it comes to wealth or the number of sports team owners they are acquainted with. I told several of them they were the wrong height; they appeared to take this as a joke, which further confuses me.

Nonetheless, I am determined to impress the American common class with my wit and banter capabilities. I have practiced ceaselessly, and believe I am improving rapidly.