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I lived through the parching 7 year drought of the 1950s in Texas. I recall seeing rain when I was a little boy, and then not again until I was eleven. During that time, cattle died, ranchers had to leave their land because their tanks and wells dried up, farms blew away and many a small town had to ration water. But the demands then were nothing like they are now. The Edwards Aquifer that provides South Texas with its water is so low that it could begin to salinate due to salt water leaking in from the Gulf of Mexico. Essentially all of the lakes in Texas are in danger of drying up. If there is not rain there before the end of the summer, it will mean big trouble.read more

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It is just a question of time before the Chinese house of cards comes down. The gap between rich and poor there is unbelievable, but the poor are surprisingly well educated and know very well that they are being exploited. Dictatorships are inherently unstable. Add to that an unhappy work force and you have a prescription for an explosion. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13746989
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Where such a lot of heat would have come from at that hour is hard to say. It takes an enormous amount of energy to raise air temperature and the sun was obviously not there to do it. This is a real weather anomaly, and a disturbing one. Another example of the fact that we are entering unknown territory when it comes to climate. And yet, just yesterday, Rush Limbaugh was condeming Republican candidates for agreeing that global warming was real. Then his darling Sarah Palin said the same thing, so will he trash her on Monday? The global warming deniers have lost this debate–too late, I fear, for us to do much of anything about it, though, not without decisive and massive international effort and a lot of scientific catchup. http://bit.ly/mSgEh8
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