Global Warming Hitting Bismarck; Appears To Have Set Record; And By A Significant Margin; Acronyms In Washington

Updates

July 28, 2013: Ely, MN, to have patchy frost tonight. So, a new tag. It is now "official." We have moved into the next annual cycle, moving from "Global Warming 2012 - 2013" to "Global Warming 2013 - 2014. 
 

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The average temperature this time of year in Bismarck is 57 degrees Fahrenheit, according to wunderground/almanac. But the low yesterday/today will be 44 degrees or cooler.

The temperature dropped to 39 degrees at 6:38 a.m. this a.m.  According to the Almanac for July 27the record low was 43 degrees, set back in 1994.

And so it goes; more global warming. You almost wonder if all the wind turbines in North Dakota are cooling the air?

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One has to give him credit for acronyms -- he must be a college graduate. Platts is reporting:

A Pennsylvania Democrat has introduced in the US House of Representatives a bill aimed at eliminating a more-than-30-year-old federal loophole he claims has allowed oil and natural gas companies to avoid hazardous waste disposal standards.

US Representative Matt Cartwright, whose district lies partly within the Marcellus Shale, but does not include any oil or gas wells, unveiled the bill -- the Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations, or CLEANER, Act -- Friday.

Cartwright, who is in his first term and is a member of the Natural Resources Committee, introduced in March the Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation, or FRESHER, Act (HR 1175), which is aimed at closing a similar oil and gas company loophole for stormwater runoff.