And from the Top 40 of 1963:

Whenever I'm with you
Something inside starts burning
and my heart's filled with fire

Stop this - it's got a hold on me
I said this ain't the way it's supposed to be

It's like a heatwave burning in my heart
I can't keep from crying
Tearing me apart

Heatwave up ahead slow me down make on time,

and I got to keep rooo'llin,

ooooow' I'm drivin my life away,

lookin for a better way..

Uhm...yeah. Back away from the bong.

One sign of heat stroke is incoherent speech.

If your backing away from it then pass it over here i need a puff. :)~~~

lmao!!!

thank you thank you thank you...

what with the huge onslaught of political ads 4 months too early,

to all the negative news...

I NEEDED THIS thread...lmao.... (ok..my turn..ya darn bogart)

Can I have mine in brownies ?

PS Shar Walker: Whoked on Phonics Wooked foamy.

I love chocolate.

You mean back away from the LSD. @ shar walker is on one trippin' ride. While you are making with all the warnings, don't forget to warn everyone about the fact no one is gonna come outta life alive!! Nut job

Well, the earthquake in DC didn't do the job.

Don't confuse the liberals with facts and reason. After all this is the worst drought since 1956 (when was Al Gore born?) so obviously it is global warming right?

I don't wan to make fun of other's troubles. A drought just sucks. The only problem I have with NBCNews/NPR is that they show me in another and we have already had 31 inches this year and five inches this month. Guess if they tried to be more factual it would not look as impressive.

Well, as long as "conservative" states don't come begging for federal drought relief money (they already are the biggest welfare recipients when it comes to "Big Government" allocation money - they're just too dumb to realize it). Since they insist that climate change is hoax let 'em burn; then they pull themselves up by their own Atlas Shrugged bootstraps.

"And the last US dust bowl was 75 years ago. With records this old.." - That's not old you moron. That's where your argument fails. In the entire Earth climate history 75 years is a newborn baby who will be a newborn baby for the next 100,000 years. Just because we see a 75 year old as an "old person" doesn't equate to the history of our climate. 75 years in climate age is YESTERDAY! Talk about stupid. The worst part is someone reads your post and starts to believe it because on the surface it sounds intelligent but is baseless in scientific meaning when you start throwing out words like "old" and the reader starts correlating it to what the average moron thinks is 'old'.

Dead-on Mike - that's why we don't need to worry about global warming. If it's actually happening it will take centuries to truly impact life on earth. Another reason not to worry - there's nothing we can do about it.

We are not the only things that inhabit the Earth. I don't think this place is for us to destroy simply because we won't be here someday. And, to the point of scientist confirming globabl warming, the spike in carbon monixide and deterioration of the ozone is just a few decades - a very short period of time - a blip on the screen. Therefore us unraveling 100,00 years of climate issues (e.g. the ozone layer) in just a few decades is the problem at hand.

True - but we are the only ones wasting time, resources and money on something we can't do anything about.

Again your missing the point. Us destroying something like the ozone will directly affect us. Last time I heard we need it to protect us against the sun. These systems are absolutely repairable. There's a lot we can do.

I simply love the defeatist attitude you folks have... How very patriotic of you. If you were around during the space race you probably would have said "we can't beat the russians into space or to the moon" because you read about sputnik.

Sickening, simply sickening.

John, you do know that the Dust Bowl was created by humans, don't you? It was poor farming practices that created the Dust Bowl, and that was pretty quick and obvious. Imaging how much damage we did, and are doing since the industrial revolution.

John, you do know that there is a big hole in the ozone layer, don't you? Do you know how that came to be? Humans using aerosols, that is how it came to be.

John, do you honestly believe that we, all 7,000,000,000 of us have no impact on the earths atmosphere?

John, do you know that scientist can get an accurate reading of weather patterns going back WAY farther than the "current" data. You can look at rocks, tree rings, ocean sediment, even glacial ice to determine weather patterns millions of years ago.

ProudAmericanVet, Thank you for your service. I hope I did not confuse you with facts and reason, but don't call me liberal because I happen to believe the credible scientists. Most peoples opinions do not fall right in line with the Red or Blue.

and what do any of you global warming alarmist gonna do about it? what are you plans that dont also involve stripping and polluting this earth?

solar panels? they strip mine for the materials and pollute during manufacturing with toxic chemicals with a pitiful amount of energy produced but a lot consumed. solar tech is older than the combustible engine but yet it sucks compared.

wind power? they strip mine for the materials and consume energy if not producing and working and where do we get the energy need to create wing energy? wind power powering wind power?they are also bad for the local environment. wind power is older than solar and combustion and yet it still sucks compared to either one.

electric cars? they strip mine to make the batteries and pollute during manufacturing and the cost of energy to create exceeds the amount they produce/save. electric cars are older than gas cars but yet they suck compared.

nuclear power? you guys wont do this so why bother.

hydrogen power? you guys wont do this so why bother.

ethanol? using our food supply for power is just stupid, we need to eat before we need electricity. hemp can produce more ethanol than any other plant but you will never see that.

there are more sources of power we could use and improve upon but the government does not want it along with the special interests that pull government strings. companies also create new tech all the time but if that new tech is stopped by trial lawyers or by the company itself then we rarely ever hear or about and see it. hemp (not marijuana) can provide an abundance of power (among other things) but you will never see that.

there is really nothing we can do because we are far too divided to form any unity and its always 'my opinions are facts and you must obey' type attitude that ruins it along with corrupt and evil people in positions of power and influence.

concerning global warming, i have no doubt that we are contributing to our own destruction but that contribution is pretty small unless we do something pretty stupid. we are actually in a period of earth that is suited to our needs, this current climate is not normal to this planet and we are lucky enough to be in it or we would have never been created. we could have never lived during any other time in this planets history due to various reason that would all result in death and that our beginning was the earth changing to allow the perfection that gave us life. we have no idea how long this cycle will last as the earth has never had this cycle before and im sure we can speed things up but until we can get the corruption and greed out of humans we will only kill our self's off.

The first thing we can do is put the people who deny climate change exists in the mental institutions that they belong in.

you prove my point very well truthmachine

Actually there are a few things people can do to drop the amount of carbon emissions going up into the atmosphere.

Watch you driving: Plan a route from your home and work. The less miles you put on your vehicle would equal less carbon emissions going up in smoke.

Higher octane fuel will also decrease the burning of carbon emissions and make your car more gas efficient. Also change your air filters in your car and add a additive to your fuel injectors to make your car more gas efficient.

When you leave your home turn it off: You really don't need to have that A/C running all day in the house when your gone off to work and there is no one else at home. Your just going to waste electricity and feed even more money to the power company. Turn off all unnecessary stuff except your refrigerator of course and set it minimum to reduce consumption. In the end it will save you on your next bill.

When at home, keep it at a minimum: In other words, if your in one room and you have a light on in another, turn it off. If you really don't need the lights on keep it off.

Buy more efficient light bulbs that can save you money than those ordinary ones. I got those high efficiency light bulbs that save me a ton of money and they last a lot longer as well.

In the end, you would save yourself a lot of money throughout the month and save the environment as well. It will reduce your carbon rating meaning less green house gases going up into the air.

average household electric bill is between $150.00 to $200.00

My electric bill average is between $60.00 to $114.00 per month and thats a year round average. Not bad huh! And thats with the things that I did above.

Yup, conserve. Problem is that too many conservers will cause the utility companies to raise the rates. They raised the rates to compensate for the lost revenues because people here were conserving too much. Go figure. Punish people for taking care of the enviroment.

Amarillo has had 8 days of 100+ degree weather for 2012 through today, last year 26 days of 100+ degree weather through July 17.

We actually had over 1 inch of rain here in Colorado yesterday (where I live) and the temps were at 60 at 6 pm. Whew - loved it. I wish you the same for all of the melting midwest. At least a break would be nice and hopefully forthcoming.

I heard on the radio this morning we in Missouri have had 25 consecutive days of 90/100 degree heat.

Rowboat: You do realize how many things are affected by corn right???? I mean the livestock needs to eat it so meat will go up, chickens need it for food so eggs will go up and of course the cows need it so the dairy products will also go up. All other produce is suffering as well so dont just think that corn is the only crop being affected by this drought. I think we will tip the food scale this year meaning more people than food:( FAMINE here we come across the whole globe.

re 9.1 If other foods are affected, those people must speak up so reserves of food can be built-up. Responsible growers must speak up and responsible government must act immediately, not just send the matter to a "think tank" or "un-think tank" if that applies, for further study. Possibly government will do nothing as usual, because someone is going to play dirty politics or call an effort socialist, if something helps the poor & hungry. Around here the government used to give surplus cheese to the poor, but no more. The result is that cheese is a luxury and the poor do net get the benefit in their diet. Where does the surplus cheese go??? This new approach does not help people, and throwing words around does not help people either, especially when jobs and health insurance are not available to people who want to work.

There is some serious drought happening globally, Iran blamed the US for their drought ( go figure) and the food shortages in the Middle East and Africa are becoming more severe. You sure are asking a lot here, you want a responsible government? Silly, that is an oxymoron.

Now, it will get worse and areas that were producing lots of food are hard hit. We grow lots of food in Texas and the drought isn't over here although we aren't suffering like we did last year. Corn is important, but soybeans, wheat, milo, oats and a host of other crops are suffering and livestock that feed on same will be far more expensive to raise. Lots of ranchers and farmers have sold off their herds, so current glut and then watch meat prices soar...along with everything else.

Rowboat...

last I knew, no one has devised a sure fire way to create rain, let alone government. Agriculture is dependent on the weather, not socio-economic conditions unless through demand

Rowboat:

WIC still offers Cheese AND you can still buy cheese with food stamps so not sure where you got that the poor does not eat the as you put it "luxury" cheese anymore. As a matter of fact per the WIC program it must be a certain typr of cheese and cannot be processed cheese. Same with the Juice you can get from WIC it cannot be a juice drink but actual REAL fruit juice.

howard-288330

i dont think its globle warming i think the earth has moved 10 degress off axies

Howard, if the Earth suddenly shifted 10 degrees of it's axis, there would have been acute changes in barometic pressures, oceanic currents, tides, the trade winds, gravitational anormalities, and temperatures, et cetera.

That astronomical event would have been virtually impossible to have not noticed and recognized without much delay even in the 18th century. You give scientists and the scientific methods, which is nearly four centuries old, too little credit.

It shifted the earth's between 4-10 inches.

Maybe God did not let the scientists to see it happen.

You guys' need to get out of the sun!

Are you talking about the sun that is more north in the east and more south in the west?

Will do Paul - just like I did 35 years ago when they were scaring us in elementary school about the world running out of oil and the coming Ice Age.

It you want to call this global warming Paul, go right ahead. Intelligent people simply ignore your scary propaganda lies. Areas of high pressure develop every summer and can become a semi-permanent feature of the day to day weather over the United States.

You can call it Jeezus if you want. But if you're a red-state, tea partier don't come bawling to the federal government looking drought relief funding; you're already taking $2.50 OUT of the federal budget for every tax dollar you put in. Get a job, you worthless "conservative" slackers.

Just which Republicans are those, specifically, or are you just making a stupid comment ?

@ "truthmachine" Step away from the crack pipe. What a dolt.

@Randy, TruthMachine is correct. Living in a "liberal" donor state, I am sick of my federal dollars being used to prop up other states. MN only gets back about 75 cents for every federal dollar spent, and we are a safe haven for illegals and other welfare junkies. Yet, we thrive.

Truthmachine

You can call it Jeezus if you want. But if you're a red-state, tea partier don't come bawling to the federal government looking drought relief funding; you're already taking $2.50 OUT of the federal budget for every tax dollar you put in. Get a job, you worthless "conservative" slackers

OK, but only because you said so!

@ justin.case - Maybe if you got a better education you wouldn't have to compete so hard for a job mowing lawns or scrubbing toilets.

@randy: step away from the government contract, pay your taxes and stop whining. It's not exactly a secret that liberal areas of the country are where money comes from, conservative areas are where it goes to die.

Hyperbole much? Guess California fell off your radar? Seems lots of democrat states and cities are going belly-up, how is that possible? I mean, you just said how great things were in liberal land so those failing liberal states don't count?

truth machine...

How droll, I guess that explains why liberals like to just throw OPM into projects with little regard to results. Hope that assuages your conscience for general government inefficiency.

I tried to report your post as "stupid", but "No Value", while not as accurate, is close enough.

'Inflammatory' works too. Hopefully there are no bath salts or knives in the vicinity.

So Obama home state is Red?

Just a bunch of made up liberal lies folks, no science involved, nothing to see here.

Actually, "global warming " goes back well before the 1930's.. by a few billion years or so, I suspect. Look outside at the bright, hot shiny thing in the sky. YOU call it a "global warmer". The rest of us call it the Sun. Clearly you are unaware of recent science. In any case, IF the warming is human exacerbated , the fix would be elimination of 3-4 billion people to reduce emissions, then waiting several centuries and "hope* it cools down. Contrary to "liberals", taxing the crap out of us will have NO effect whatsoever.

You have to make money to pay taxes. Conservative states are artificially propped up by the taxpayers of the rest of the country; they consume 150% to 500% more federal allocation money than they contribute in federal taxes. When you crunch the numbers you don't pay any taxes at all Then they turn beet red while they rant and scream about how much they hate big gubmint. (Apparently only when a Democrat is in the White House, however - real patriotic.)

If you hate the government so much maybe you should consider leaving the country. The country as a whole would be infinitely better off without you,

PLEASE SOUTH RISE AGAIN, THIS TIME THE NORTH WILL HELP YOU PACK!!!

Tsk, is that all you've got? Why don't you just repost and save yourself the typing? Better yet, why don't you take a much needed rest?

Christopher, can you explain to us, the great unwashed, just how HAARP, whatever that is, is forcing the jet stream north. That's where it normally goes to every summer anyway.

Sometimes, when you get a lot of HAARPs together they tilt things to one side. Need to keep the load balanced, equal HAARP weight distribution will keep the tilt from happening.

"Christopher, can you explain to us, the great unwashed, just how HAARP, whatever that is, is forcing the jet stream north. That's where it normally goes to every summer anyway."

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.

Chemtrails working together with HAARP modified the jet stream to the point where it is, according to scientists, "blocked", and causing the current extreme heatwave in the USA, Russia and Europe, and the flooding in Pakistan, Russia and various other places on the globe?

Jets spray chemtrails that are used to reflect and absorb radio and electromagnetic frequencies that are induced by HAARP, and reflected back from the ionosphere. This activity is used to push or pull jet streams, bringing about changes in weather patterns, including heatwaves, drought, storms, extreme cold, etc.... They have denied the best weapon they have to bring a country to its knees called HAARP. It was labeled a conspiracy for some time. Now you can actually visit HAARP`S website if you do a quick google search. One facility is located in Alaska. There are tons of videos and demonstrations on the web if you really want to understand what is going on. I just love how the Sheeple continue to think they are living in a nice peaceful world. Enjoy your last election. In a Communist Country there is no second runner.

yes it does ( hurt ) george you moron - the GOP and their band of merry teavangilist are the crowd that denied climate change from the very start - yeah so sure make light of it - is praying going to actually help - of course not, look how it worked out for pick perry - but that just the point georgie boy - the right tells their flock to pray your way out of this mess ( because actually reacting and doing something makes to much sense and cost money ) - these hillbillies buy into it - so yes george - saying pray cant hurt is a silly thing to say - because guess what if you pray and thats all you do - wait for it - YOUR ACTUALLY DOING NOTHING- sssh why george.... lets see if you get the right answer ........... let me help you ............................. no one is actually listening, genius

Fred, You obviously came from the shallow end of the gene pool spouting such ignorance!

Goerge, prayer is always in order!

Dan,

It makes it easy to spot those that the heat is affecting.....incoherent rants is a sign of heat stroke.

Fred,

Comment reported

See #1 of the CoH.

yes we all evovled from that pool - prayers do not want to believe it - you want to believe in talking snakes and magic gardens and people comiin back from the dead - sure george if you belive in that stuff your going to believe ethere is a spirit in the sky answering prayers - all religion does is make a virtue of not thinking - yeah and ok with all those prayers i see the temp dropping rapidly - what about the storms ,drought , and wildfires - prayers helping there also- and dan it is past funny for someone to say someone else is not intelligent and then say you believe in angels and the devil - george some of us are less evovled then others

If your rant is an example of a person who doesn't believe in God, well, nuff said. Are you related to Truthmachine? Are you the same person?

first of all never said i do not believe in a god - i feel if it does exist would not be the kind you have to bow down to on sunday - like the one created by men in the bible - nuff said

Umm, seems your argument is against certain religions. Islam requires that its adherents kneel and bow down twice a day, every day, at the same time every day. Is that what you're talking about?

oh yeah - thats totally insane - just like confessing your sins to a child molester - then having to say ten hail marys to be forgiven - or no meat on friday - or church every sunday - or eating a host and being told it represents the body of someone who came back to life -or hating gays - or if your catholic and you split up you CANT get married in a church again - or priest CANT get married - traditions .... no not really RULES . if you dont follow god will be angry and cast you into hell for eternity - rules -to control you with guilt and fear - or changing up so you do not think im biased - if you so much as disrespect the koran or commit adultery you will be executed - all insane rules made up ages ago to control and keep you in line - buy in if you want - not for me - to me a wasted life - if there is a supreme being is that why he put us here - to be worshiped .... simple and superstitious men made up that premiss

re:20 “So in the U.S. and much of Europe, we’ve been reducing aerosol emissions.” I feel this is the old shell game, we reduce pollution here and outsource our factories and jobs to China, where some of their industrial cities now have air pollution problems. Guess what? the wind still circulates it everywhere including here. It is just like in California, people were told to wear sweaters and lower thermostats which reduced power consumption. The electric companies and California Utilities commission then raised rates, so the electric company still made the same amount of money. Poor people were colder and poorer, made fools of and gouged, again by the old shell game impoverishment program.

George had it right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

well wally what are you teavangilist going to say - it was a liberal issue so all the righties had to deny it - of course that was the only reason , you were obviously not going to look at the facts and frankly i do not need data to tell me this is happening - i can feel it for myself - so now , so now that climate and weather highlight and monoploize the news - real storms, real widfires , real drought , real record temp ( by the thousands ) what are you going to say , you were wrong it really is happening...... please of course not, then it would be your fault for not doing something about it ... i get it, cover your lies with more lies, would not expect anything else - but go ask the guy standing next to his house turned to rubble by storms or fire or the rancher that has no crops or just had to sell his herd because there is no water if there is climate change - those things are REALLY happening more and more every day -like i keep saying talking snakes and people coming back from the dead from stories in a book written two thousand years ago that, that you have no problem with - events happening right in front of your eyes - that, that cant be happening - priceless

hey justin im not the one using god in every sentence and praying all day - and thats not my issue freakin pray all you want - why, myself included do we have to hear about it ,you are praying to a god who hears and knows all- you are praying to him - why the need to announce it - why - i obviously do not bring a god into all these discussion - the believers do . soooo they have every right to mention him swear by him tell us all how they know what he wants and is thinking - and i have every right to call it nonsense - not a bigot just expressing my believes - dont like it - it upsets you =dont care, man you guys used to get thrown to the lions for this now a little verbal pressure and you come unglued - tell you what stop telling me every time you pray .. and stay away from womens rights . stem cell ,science in school ,gay rights etc... and you will not hear a peep from me - until then im going to call it as i see it - thx- ps the worst bigots i know claim to be religious

No, I don't think there is. Very sad.

well quoter - if global warming is putting an end to it - then the GOP WAS WRONG - wasnt it - just had to make that point - but trust me as things get worse they will start denying , they were denying ( climate change ) ... trust me that talking point will be along very soon

See post #24

see the news- corn and soybean crops because of heat and drought are down 50% - just one of the many real affects of climate change - corn/beef (feed cattle) prices are going to sky rocket - get a second job - but thats ok because the gas .oil , energy companies continue to do business as usual and have record profits ......... while they destroy the planet - by the way these facts are real not like talking snakes - good luck in your box

should have said good luck listening to fox - and now try and tell me the GOP was NOT denying climate change for the last forty years - go ahead and say that so we all can see how biased you are

Certainly not in June (about cooler weather, that is). According to NOAA, "The average combined global land and ocean surface temperature for June 2012 was 0.63°C (1.13°F) above the 20^th century average of 15.5°C (59.9°F). This is the fourth warmest June since records began in 1880." July will likely turn out to be similar.

You have it backwards. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/6