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--Apple-Mail-266--792096187 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In June of this year over 4,000 daily high temperature records were broken in the United States. There were 159 record high temperatures for the month, and 42 all-time temperature highs. July has been even worse, the hottest month ever recorded in the United States since comprehensive weather recording began in 1895. July 2012 was the 328th consecutive month that global temperature exceeded the 20th century average. In Canada record-setting temperatures were recorded in July in many parts of the country. Is there a way we can determine if the extreme weather events we have been witnessing are indicative of a changing climate, or are we simply witnessing variable weather? That's precisely what NASA's James Hansen and his colleagues have done in a strikingly elegant publication entitled Perception of climate change. Anyone who was alive and paying attention before 1981 can perceive the difference in climate that has occurred, and the analysis of large datasets of environmental information clearly and unequivocally confirm this change. To read more see my recent article for Rabble: Loaded dice in the climate change casino http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka/2012/08/loaded-dice-climate-change-casino Best wishes, Christopher Majka Christopher Majka - columnist, Rabble.ca Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Email: c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca http://rabble.ca/blog/26142 "The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein --Apple-Mail-266--792096187 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In June of this year over = 4,000 daily high temperature records were broken in the United States. There were 159 record high temperatures for the month, and 42 all-time temperature highs. July has = been even worse, the hottest month ever recorded in the United States since comprehensive weather recording began in 1895. July 2012 was the 328th consecutive month that global temperature exceeded the 20th century = average. In Canada record-setting temperatures were recorded in July in many parts = of the country. Is there a way we can determine if the extreme weather events we have been witnessing are indicative of a changing climate, or = are we simply witnessing variable weather?</div><div><br></div><div>That's = precisely what NASA's James Hansen and his colleagues have done in a strikingly elegant publication entitled = <i>Perception of climate change</i>. Anyone who was alive and paying attention = before 1981 can perceive the difference in climate that has occurred, and the analysis of large datasets of environmental information clearly and unequivocally confirm this change. To read more see my recent article = for Rabble:</div><div><br></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space: pre; "><b>Loaded dice in the climate change = casino</b></span></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space: pre; "> <a = href=3D"http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka/2012/08/loaded-di= ce-climate-change-casino">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/christophermajka= /2012/08/loaded-dice-climate-change-casino</a></span></div><div><br></div>= <div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Christopher = Majka</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -we