Global warming no I mean climate change no I mean...what is the term that Al Gore is going to be using this year?

If this keeps up, half the people in LA and all the people in Florida will move back to Chicago!

As someone who understands and accepts the evidence of science, and thus anthropogenic climate change, please understand that this incident is WEATHER.

Just like a snow storm doesn't disprove it, a heat wave doesn't prove it.

This does....http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/index.html

Sounds like a Coronal Mass Infection!

Can't believe all this talk about weather.....GET A LIFE FOLKS!!

Good for the homeless people, they deserve a break with the weather. It can get awfully cold with that wind coming off the lake in the winter.

A silly story made even sillier by the murder of the language. Please,,, "record day of heat". Come on; speak English and recognise another "day of record heat".

Santorum will probably say that it is because all the porn that people are watching. Makes the earth get warmer!!

global warming naysayers laying low for awhile. Don't worry they will come crawling back out of the woodwork the next time it snows--- ANYWHERE!

Green beer shales are through the roof, that'll shave the planet!

Oh blah blah blah,we've had this kind of weather on and off for years.In April of 1975 it was 96 degrees, in New England, in Conn.!

This is nothing new!What the HELL is all the Brue Ha Ha about?

Yin Yang went to YIN YANG. Last winter was a YIN as far as snow pack went this winter its a YANG. But there is still plenty of makeup time left in the Rockies

I predict 89 in Denver this April as this massive high moves about but does not quit for weeks followed by a massive 24-30 inch up slope snowstorm when it finally does quit and moves East. And 94 in Dallas

And if by chance this Amplified High or a series of them continues into summer- a big if- and continues to block the prevailing Westerlies, that would favor hurricanes developing and raking our coasts rather than being sheared off

Global Whining

⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.⁸ All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Luke 21:25-28

King James Version (KJV)

²⁵And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Revelation 6:12-14: "I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places."

Hail destroys 1/3 of earth, meteor destroys 1/3 of the sea, a star crashes into the sea

Any of you heard of haarp?

Or how about The Anunnaki Messing with the weather.

Spare us the Bible quotations. When there is a serious issue to resolve, I don't rely on mythology for the solution and neither do you. We go to see an educated person (like a doctor - who relies on science) to figure out the best course of action. I accept the science of humans changing the atmospheric chemical composition through globalized industrialization. Much to my frustration and concern for future generations, the political reality is that there are so many ignorant Americans (some by choice, some by circumstance) it will take many years of violent spring weather, unusually hot summers, drought, and increasingly acidic oceans before today's ignorant are dead and more informed voters decide to take action. The problem is that so much more pollution will have been added to the atmosphere by then that the train of climate change will have already left the station. What I don't understand is that we buy insurance for our lives, homes, autos, and other valuables but we don't place a value on our planet by paying for insurance just in case the science is correct.

For those of us who don’t like to be ignorant about the science of altering the atmosphere's chemistry, I suggest the following books with a brief quote from each:

1. A Green History of the World, Clive Ponting, 1991 – “The net result of these human activities is the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by a third in the last two hundred years – from about 270 parts per million in 1750 to 350 parts per million in the late 1980s. About half of this increase has occurred since the 1950s – carbon dioxide emissions rose from 1.6 billion tons a year in 1950 to 5.4 billion tons in the mid-1980s. Global use of fossil fuels is rising at about 4 per cent a year (which means a doubling every sixteen years) and carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere at about .5 per cent a year. Carbon dioxide has provided by far the greatest volume of greenhouse gas emissions and contributed about two-thirds of the total warming effect so far.” [page 388]
2. The Little Ice Age, Brian Fagan, 2000 – “The Little Ice Age reminds us that climate change is inevitable, unpredictable, and sometimes vicious. The future promises exactly the same kinds of violent change on a local and global scale. If the present, unusually prolonged high mode of the North Atlantic Oscillation is indeed due to anthropogenic forcing, then we must also assume that global warming will accentuate the natural cycles of global climate on the largest and smallest scales. Some of these potential cycles of change are frightening to contemplate in an overpopulated and heavily industrialized world.” [page 214] “Over a century ago, Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley urged us to be ‘humble before the facts’. The facts stare us in the face, yet we do not display sufficient humility. The vicissitudes of the Little Ice Age remind us of our vulnerability again and again. In a new climatic era, we would be wise to learn from the climatic lessons of history.” [page 217]
3. The Long Summer, Brian Fagan, 2004 – “Short-term climatic events like droughts do not often leave a clear footprint. But the droughts of the Medieval Warm Period (or Medieval Climatic Anomaly, as it is often called) left giant tracks across the American west, wrought in deep-sea cores, pollen samples, tree rings, and ice cores from high in the Andes. From the California coast to the Maya lowlands to Lake Titicaca, five centuries of sudden aridity wrought havoc on human societies already living close to the environmental edge.” [pages 214-215]
4. The Weather Makers, Timothy Flannery, 2005 – “The concentration of C02 in the atmosphere in times past can be measured from bubbles of air preserved in ice. By drilling about two miles into the Antarctic ice cap, scientists have drawn out an ice core that spans almost a million years of Earth history. This unique record demonstrates that during cold times CO2 levels have dropped to around 160 parts per million, and until recently they never exceeded 280 parts per million. The Industrial Revolution changed that, albeit slowly, for even by 1958, when Keeling began his measurements of CO2 atop Mauna Loa, it was up to only 315 parts per million.” [page 29] “Today the figures are 380 parts per million….” [page 28]
5. Collapse, Jared Diamond, 2005 – “…the atmosphere really has been undergoing an unusually rapid rise in temperature recently and that human activities are the or a major cause. The remaining uncertainties mainly concern the future expected magnitude of the effect: e.g., whether average global temperatures will increase by ‘just’ 1.5 degrees Centigrade or by 5 degrees Centigrade over the next century. Those numbers may not sound like a big deal, until one reflects that average global temperatures were ‘only’ 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.” [page 493]
6. The Revenge of Gaia, James Lovelock, 2006 – “Predictions of climate change do not depend only on theoretical models in the form of computer simulations of the Earth. There is now a vast array of monitoring activities sustained globally. Air and sea temperatures are continuously measured, as are the gases of the atmosphere, the cloud cover, the floating ice and the glaciers and the health of the ecosystems in the ocean and on the land. The truth of the models is therefore continuously tested against the observations coming in from the real world.” [page 57]
7. Dead Pool, James Lawrence Powell, 2008 – “The question is not whether the earth has warmed, but why? The scientific consensus is that the cause is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which absorb heat and trap it near the earth. In one of the most prescient predictions in science, in 1896 … Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius predicted the very rise that we now observe. Based on the knowledge that carbon dioxide molecules trap heat, Arrhenius calculated that if atmospheric carbon dioxide level were to double, global temperatures would rise between 7 and 11 degrees F. More than a century later with vastly more information, IPCC forecasts that by 2100, temperatures will rise between 2.5 and 10.5 degrees F, overlapping the range the Swedish chemist forecast long ago. Arrhenius thought it might take three thousand years for carbon dioxide levels to double, but sadly that is one forecast that he got wrong.” [pages 171-2]

I make these suggestions to help frame the science behind the issues associated with human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Many people seem ignorant of the science behind climate analysis and content to put their heads deeply into the sand. The defining characteristic of humanity, complex intelligence, is enhanced by a broad liberal education. Thomas Jefferson had this to say about higher education including science: “the university [of Virginia] would be ‘now qualified to raise its youth to an order of science unequalled in any other state; and this superiority will be greater from the free range of mind encouraged there, and the restraint imposed at other seminaries by the shackles of a domineering hierarchy and a bigoted adhesion to ancient habits.’” [from Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall, 1993, page 588]

why would anyone accept empirical data from thousands of field "watchers" who, every day, pay close attention to simple, but profound, climate observations?... especially when you can get all the science you need from loud-mouth "conservative" talk show hosts who sit on their fat rear-ends day-in and day-out.

I'm not at all surprised that Chicago is as hot as hell. Satan took up residence there with Obama and is holding the hot seat for him.

Chicago is the most corrupt city in America. You ever wonder why Obama became a resident there and not Kansas. Temporary residence with Lots of volcano's around Hawaii and it keep Obama close to his roots, HELL!!!

Purdy warm down here in Arkansas too. Me and the boy Junior got tater plants up. Them new taters are awful hard to beat. Thank we'll git our tomater plants out purdy soon. Junior and me dug some worms an went down to the creek today. We catched a bunch of brim. Them brim ain't too big but awful good eatin. Bleeve this early sprang is gonna last. Them weather fellers say hits problee gonna stay warm. Junior seen a airplane last sundy. Our milk cow got the scours from eatin them new ragweeds that sprang up. She gits em bout ever sprang. Uncle Cedric said he bleeved he is gonna far up his still purdy soon and cook up a new batch of shine. He don't sell hit nor nothing jist makes a little drankin whisky. Yall come over to the house when them taters gits ready to dig an help and we'll be glad to give ye some. Juniors gittin so good at playin checkers I ain't beat him in a right smart while. Maybe one uh yall will play him a few games. Sure good visitin with ye.

Carbon tax was begun in Chicago. You know where Obama and Satan took up residence. Sulfur coming from hell is what Obama agreed to give Al Gore for his recoginition of Obama for his green energy push to steal from the American people and if possible from the world.

Communist, Muslims, terrorist, gangsters all seem to be apart of the Obama family. What more could Americans ask for in a bowing President of the United States of America. Obama has never been more proud when he told Michelle you will soon be the Queen of hell with our Daughters as princesses. Lets have fun screwing up the land God gave to people of faith in God. Michelle used her favorite slang, you betcha!!!!

Norm - Chicago is not hot as hell. First, there is no such place. Second, if we go with the mythology, hell is supposed to be very, very hot. I live in Phoenix. While there are many jokes about Phoenix being hot as hell, Chicago is not as hot as Phoenix - especially during March. My wife's family is from the phenomenal City of Chicago. The politics are corrupt: that is why so many of their governors end up in prison. This has no bearing on President Obama who seems to have escaped any particular allegations of corruption. Unlike his predecessor who might as well be a war criminal for starting a needless war resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands and billions of dollars of wasted taxpayer dollars not only overseas but domestically in assisting disabled veterans. The topic here is weather and the serious threat of a changing climate. Do you have anything meaningful to contribute to this topic?

Norm - "Communist, Muslims, terrorist, gangsters all seem to be apart of the Obama family." Really?? Please explain the factual basis for such an unbelievable statement. I am open minded and would like the join the posse to round him up as an anti-American if this is true. If it isn't true, then perhaps you need to be more open minded to the realities of our world.

for those of you are truly ignorant... check out a physics book from the library (some gasses trap more of the sun's radiant-heat than others; let's not dump so much of that kind of gas into our atmosphere)

for the rest of you; your hate shines as bright as the sun; and "conservative" talk-show hosts spew gasses that trap your radiant-HATE... and everyone can see it... so... you can't win

... the greenhouse theory works to explain both phenomenon

I'm sittin' at Foster and Kedzie right now and this is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to stop all the global warning. It's all caused by fossils. When we get rid of all the fossils, then the global warning will go away again.