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The Southwest is broiling. Are you paying attention, President Trump?
CNN ^ | June 20, 2017 | By Jill Filipovic

Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.

Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.

Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.

Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.

A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.

If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.

You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.

Anything less is global suicide.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; dramaqueen; fakenews; fakescience; globalists; globalwarming; hoax; socialists
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

She was even stupid enough to mention The Bay Area in her screed about high temps. It is in THE SIXTIES.

She is a moron.

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161 posted on 06/20/2017 2:34:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Inyo-Mono

There’s dry heat as in DV and wet heat as in Kuwait where adjusted for heat and humidity the apparent or felt temperature was 165F


162 posted on 06/20/2017 2:34:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: SaveFerris

My first trip to Phoenix, I was at the airport checking in for my return flight.
The ticket agent picks up one of my suitcases and says to me “A case of Coors?” He was right. LOL!

I use to bring home a suitcase full of White Castles Sliders after the Indi 500 every year!
(Stopped that when they started to charge for check bags. Didn’t have the heart to put the stinky things in the carry on overhead!)


163 posted on 06/20/2017 2:36:04 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

Southwest wouldn’t put my bag of BBQ sauce (packed in blue jeans) in the overhead. There were very few people on the flight, too.

I was not happy. I said, don’t break a bottle. They didn’t. But I was sure I was going to be washing BBQ jeans.

I bought the bag at Venture. While my Hertz Thunderbird roasted in the parking lot.

Went to Planet Hollywood but only bought a small souvenir cup.


164 posted on 06/20/2017 2:40:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Keyhopper

And Shillary will be there!!!!! Repent now!!!!!!!!! LOL!


165 posted on 06/20/2017 2:45:06 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: SkyDancer

Yes, or as they call it, “The Heat Index.”


166 posted on 06/20/2017 2:48:28 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: House Atreides

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


167 posted on 06/20/2017 2:50:21 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL. It’s 83 degrees here in South Orange County (San Juan Capistrano, CA). Very pleasant with a nice ocean breeze.


168 posted on 06/20/2017 2:52:44 PM PDT by stillfree? (Don't let illegals turn your state into California.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Plus, in California, the summer alpine resorts hope half of them will be open by July 4. Some are already offering “snow checks” to people who made reservations last year but whose cabins are still inaccessible due to snow. They’ll be first in line for next summer if the snow melt goes faster then.


169 posted on 06/20/2017 2:55:07 PM PDT by Thud
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To: lizma2
I was laying out at the pool and the pages of my paperback started to fall out. The glue was melting!!

I could see that happening.

That same year, I got an old Triumph Spitfire. I thought that a convertible would be nice to have out there. But those black vinyl seats ... DANG!!!!

170 posted on 06/20/2017 3:00:54 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: SkyDancer

Exactly. /MSM (i.e. /sarc)


171 posted on 06/20/2017 3:03:14 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The southwest is a desert - which is why it had to be irrigated.

There is no hope for useful idiots.


172 posted on 06/20/2017 3:10:39 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no. Not wildfires. Those never happened before.....


173 posted on 06/20/2017 3:28:10 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: SparkyBass

Milk will be 200 dollars/gallon


174 posted on 06/20/2017 3:29:23 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just drove from Phoenix to Las Vegas Monday in a car with no Air Conditioning just windows wide-open ...it wasn’t so bad


175 posted on 06/20/2017 3:29:58 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: tophat9000

And FYI there’s still snow on top of Mount Charleston in Las Vegas right now


176 posted on 06/20/2017 3:30:59 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Perchant
Right? Here in northern Michigan I had to grab the second blanket this morning and pull it up over me. In mid June.

global cooling and the coming ice age...we will all die!!!!

177 posted on 06/20/2017 3:32:54 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, please, Phoenix always broils this time of year.


178 posted on 06/20/2017 3:35:19 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: abclily

Oh noeeee! We’re ALL gonna die at the hands of the Sun!


179 posted on 06/20/2017 3:48:36 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The southwest broils every summer dumbasse


180 posted on 06/20/2017 4:00:25 PM PDT by Stand W (My Name is Tucker Carlson and I am going to destroy you.)
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