it's getting hot in here...

today was (to borrow a term i rather dislike) hella hot. guzzling-down-water, browsing-through-air-conditioned-stores, stopping-for-ice-cream kind of hot. now, logically i know from living here the past 2 years it gets hot from the end of august until mid-october. but his was different. this was soupy, mid-west heat. the kind i grew up with.

the weather, combined with the fact that i just finished "planet earth" through netflix, has me itchy crazy about the fact that there are seriously people out there who don't believe in global warming! c'mon people! and don't give me that: but we've had one of the coolest/coldest summers yet... global warming doesn't JUST make everything hot- no no. it messes with regular weather patterns. it brings hurricanes and typhoons. and droughts. and cold spells when it should be hot. and heat waves when it should be cool.

i think the most blatant evidence of this can be found when looking at the polar ice caps. bear with me folks. here's an image of the polar ice caps from today's date 1979 and here's the exact same location august 27, 2009 (thanks to the university of illinois- cryosphere today). notice the 5 of polar ice concentration- how thick it is, how far it spans.

staggering, isn't it???