The main thing is we haven't had any rain for the last week. The humidity has been low, too, so things have really been drying out out there.

We owe it to the public to maintain the integrity of that forecast.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.