Well, whaddya know.
WASHINGTON — Evidence is strong that the increasing frequency of extreme rain, heat, drought and tropical storms is caused by global climate change, according to a report released Thursday by a panel of government scientists.
You don’t say.
And human activity probably is the reason, according to the report from the U.S. Climate Change Science […]

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As the father of a Cub Scout, the news of the four people killed by the tornado at the Boy Scout camp in Iowa is particularly frightening. It’s not like you sit in the cabins and watch the Weather Channel, right? And some of the kids were out hiking; just no escape. Terrifying.
This year may […]

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…mighty windy out there, trees and power lines down, we’re getting reports of Route 23 shut down because of trees across the roadway, etc.
In like a lion.

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Light snow and already they’re letting the kid’s elementary school out early. Cancellation on spec.
I suppose superintendents have to err on the side of caution these days, given our litigious nature - because you know and I know the moment the district keeps the kids for one nanosecond too long, the bus slips on the […]

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April or maybe May out there. Freaky for the second week of January. Stories this week blame it on La Nina, with Eric Horst of Millersville University insisting - as he always does - that none of this has anything to do with global warming.
But this graphic, from Millersville’s own Web site, is both telling […]

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