2011 has been a year of weather extremes in the U.S.
Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes. Unprecedented triple-digit heat and devastating drought. Deadly tornadoes leveling towns. Massive rivers overflowing. A billion-dollar blizzard. And now, unusual hurricane-caused flooding in Vermont. If what’s falling from the sky isn’t enough, the ground shook in places that normally seem stable: Colorado and the entire East Coast.
Total weather losses top $35 billion, and that’s not counting Hurricane Irene, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. There have been more than 700 U.S. disaster and weather deaths, most from the tornado outbreaks this spring.
And the year isn’t over yet.
But you guise, human-caused climate change is a myth!
(via other-stuff)
Image description: This color-coded map shows how persistent, scorching heat in the central and eastern regions of the United States shattered long-standing temperature records last month, making it the fourth warmest July nationally. In the South, the heat exacerbated drought conditions as dry as the historic droughts of the 1930s and 1950s, though not as long lived. The average U.S. temperature was 77 degrees F, which is 2.7 degrees above average. Learn more about this historic heatwave.
Global warming’s a myth, everyone! /sarcasm
