7/9/21: The final numbers are in. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June sets a North American record for the hottest June ever. More than 1,200 daily highs and more than 1,500 minimum daily highs are recorded. As hotter days make the earth slower to cool – and bring relief when the sun finally sets – daily minimum highs become a greater problem.
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some parts of the Pacific Northwest recently, temperatures soared nearly 30 degrees Fahrenheit above their average, an extreme that “would have been virtually impossible without
climate change,” said Geert Jan
van Oldenborgh of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
As a “bonus,” warmer air can hold more moisture – increasing
humidity and making nights muggier.
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Rupert Murdoch makes more than Randy Weingartern. |
IF YOU’VE NEVER NOTICED, Fox News hates labor unions. Today, they decided to blast Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. A guest on Martha MacCallum’s show pointed out that Weingarten was warning against reopening schools in the face of the spreading coronavirus. The guest grumbled because the head of the union made $564,236 last year, nine times the salary of the average teacher.
This was terrible and un-American and proved that unionized teachers hate children. Whereas when Tucker Carlson makes $6,000,000 per year, roughly two hundred times as much as the typical Fox News viewer, that is capitalism at its purest, and exactly as God intended.
Also, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, is worth $21.6 billion, or 38,282 times as much as the union lady made last year.
POSTSCRIPT: This blogger, a former educator, doesn’t much care for Weingarten. Still, her salary has nothing to do with her concern for reopening schools. One third of teachers are 50 years old or older, and at risk of serious illness if exposed to the COVID-19 virus. Fox News, of course, doesn’t care about teachers.
They care about ratings.
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