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There has been no temperature warming for at least 17 years across the United States, according to results from a rarely referenced dataset that was designed to remove all urban heat distortions. The dataset, compiled by the Natural Oceanic and...

KEY CONCEPTS NOAA climate normals were updated this week. The climate normals, updated every ten years, are 30-year averages of climatological variables which give us a reference point for comparing current weather against what’s considered “normal”. Climate normals also provide important information for a range of economic sectors, informing growers’ decisions on when to plant crops and what crops to plant, how electrical utilities can expect energy demand to vary by season, and planni...

A recent column in this paper by Coty Keller claimed “we were experiencing more floods, fires, and droughts,” which will bathe Florida, thus Charlotte County, in “killer heat.” So with this climate change, will we citizens of Charlotte County be living in an unbearably hot swamp, unless CO2 emissions are brought to heel? The measures suggested to do that are quite disruptive. Do away with corporate “person hood,” which will simply end capitalism (and your 401K). En...