And no one wants to talk about it:
LISBON, Portugal — Lisbon broke a 37-year-old record to notch its hottest temperature ever as an unrelenting heat wave baked Portugal and neighboring Spain. New heat records were set in 26 places around Portugal.
Portugal’s weather service said the capital reached 44 degrees Celsius (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Saturday afternoon, surpassing the city’s previous record of 43 C (109.4 F) set in 1981.
The day’s hottest temperature of 46.8 C (116.2 F) was recorded at Alvega in the center of Portugal. The country’s highest temperature on record is 47.4 C (117.3 F) from 2003.
Portugal’s weather service said new maximum highs were recorded at 26 places from measurements taken at a total of 96 weather stations around the country. More than 60 percent of the country registered temperatures over 40 C (104 F).
The freak British heat wave has made this summer one of the best in living memory for what archeologists call “parch marks”—ghostly, pale outlines of vanished castles, settlements, and burial sites that materialize on the land when it dries out. https://t.co/C2vAnubxED
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 5, 2018
Low wheat prices are toast after a global heat wave raised prices for grain to multiyear highs https://t.co/h5ChnTW72y
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 5, 2018
Throughout the Northern Hemisphere this summer, heat waves have been shattering records and sustaining wildfires of unprecedented fury: https://t.co/JccrCh7OEI pic.twitter.com/KnVaZpG7AB
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 5, 2018
The severe drought in Syria caused a civil war as well as the upheaval in Tunisia, with a little help from the CIA.
Senator James Inhofe is the man most responsible for cutting funds to the renewable energy industry, for the hiring of Pruitt who got rid of valuable EPA regulations, and for continuing the tax subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
But when all is said and done climate is a budget issue.
By a vote of 87-10, the Senate passed the military budget last week.
When their August vacation comes to an end, one of the first items on the Congressional calendar is to pass the other 45% of the budget.
Trump wants $30 billion to build his wall or he will shut down the government.
The Republicans want to cut money for food stamps, Medicaid, education, aid to mother’s with dependent children, and of course funds for clean air and water programs.
Will the 39 Democratic senators who voted to give the military $717 billion, help the Republicans to make their draconian cuts to the ‘people’s’ programs and give Trump $30 billion to build his lunatic(s) wall?