Tag: Los Angeles
VA Cities/Counties Can Join Big Cities in Powering Operations with Renewables
By Will Driscoll:
Virginia's cities and counties can get a free price estimate for renewable electricity for their government buildings, just by reporting their annual...
Thursday News: “Gun Nuts”; “Trump, Israel and the Art of the...
by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, December 7.
100,000 evacuated, hundreds of schools closed amid...
Los Angeles Breaks Record for Hottest Temperature
2010's tied for the hottest year on record so far. Over the weekend, DC tied the record for most 90 degree days in one year. And now America's 2nd-largest city has broken its record for highest temperature:As of 12:50 p.m.: downtown L.A. had hit 113 degrees, a record high. Stuart Seto, a forecaster for the National Weather Service, said that's the hottest temperature recorded at the downtown station since record-keeping began in 1877.As climate scientists have been predicting, it's just more evidence of global warming amplifying summer heat waves.
But nothing to see here, right California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina? No need to buy any less Middle Eastern oil or burn any less mountaintop-removed coal? Just all a coincidence, or sunspots, or something?