So....Hot Enough For Ya?
Check any national color-coded weather map, and you'll notice lots of reds, oranges and yellows from Florida to Minnesota, meaning the ongoing 2006 heat wave is a coast-to-coast, north-to-south phenomenon. In fact, the phrase "power outage" is one of the week's most-cited blog phrases, as is "air conditioning." Even the blogger at The Sustainable Scoop, facing 110 degrees in an un-AC house and frying computer equipment that didn't work, finally broke down and bought one....but provided links to PlanetFriendly's AC alternatives just the same.
Is this what Al Gore is talking about?
Sure it's a big jump to link the ongoing heat wave to global warming (the message in Gore's docu-movie "An Inconvenient Turth"), but it's also one of those things that makes you go "Hmmmmmm....?"
A BlogPulse trend graph captures buzz on both topics: references to the heat wave, and references to global warming:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at July 27, 2006 10:37 AM
