Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting

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It's hard to not be concerned with global warming when its effects are right in front of your eyes. Sure, it's one thing when the ocean begins to reclaim islands, but when you can see the effects in your home town, well, that's another story altogether. Case in point: KFOR TV in Stillwater, Oklahoma is reporting that temperatures are so high that the street lamps have begun melting.

To be sure, Stillwater is suffering from one heck of a heatwave. It's expected to reach 115 there today, 108 on Friday, and 109 on Saturday. And warmer temperatures are nothing new: July represented the 23rd month out of the last 28 that came in warmer than average.

It's possible the heat itself isn't responsible for the event — it's being reported on Facebook that a nearby dumpster fire may have been the cause of the melting plastic light housings. Still, that dumpster fire was caused and aggravated by the record heat and dryness. And if dangerous, spontaneous fires aren't reason enough to go green, we don't know what is.

Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News
 
We need trees, people...

And of course, there's millions of motors that run hot venting heat off into the air. Wait a minute, is that billions...? Oh... Whoops.

Carbon is one of the culprits in rising temperatures. A study was done in which it was found that temperatures had gradually warmed over the centuries as more and more land were deforested, and then shortly after the decimation of the Indian populations began, lands formerly used by the Indians became reforested, the little ice age in Europe came about. It ended shortly after Europeans started the westward push to claim the lands that had become recently reforested, cutting them back down, and it's been up ever since. I have a concern about this in light of Texas losing half a billion tree last year alone.

The trees will take up the carbon and sequester it.
 
rockin'robin said:
It's hard to not be concerned with global warming when its effects are right in front of your eyes. Sure, it's one thing when the ocean begins to reclaim islands, but when you can see the effects in your home town, well, that's another story altogether. Case in point: KFOR TV in Stillwater, Oklahoma is reporting that temperatures are so high that the street lamps have begun melting.

To be sure, Stillwater is suffering from one heck of a heatwave. It's expected to reach 115 there today, 108 on Friday, and 109 on Saturday. And warmer temperatures are nothing new: July represented the 23rd month out of the last 28 that came in warmer than average.

It's possible the heat itself isn't responsible for the event — it's being reported on Facebook that a nearby dumpster fire may have been the cause of the melting plastic light housings. Still, that dumpster fire was caused and aggravated by the record heat and dryness. And if dangerous, spontaneous fires aren't reason enough to go green, we don't know what is.

Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News
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Huh?? Who wrote this misleading title and article? The misleading title made everyone click on the title like that "Ah, Gotcha! I made you read my article!" This journalism is screwed up.
 
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