Happy Birthday, Olivia -- June 6, 2015

Her birthday is later this summer, but in order to see her friends before they all scatter this summer, Olivia had her second annual rock climbing birthday party. Olivia will be eight years old this summer.

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For The Archives

There are no active rigs in Montana at the moment. The Billings Gazette is reporting. Both coal industry and wind industry are fading in Montana (The Billings Gazette, June 12, 2015). The tax credit for wind was renewed for one month in 2014, but not yet in 2015.

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Late Spring

Yesterday, after reports of potential flooding in the Williston (Bakken) area due to the recent snow pack melt off, I suggested that this seems like a late spring. How incredibly prescient. NewsMax is reporting:

Don't talk about global warming to residents of Nuuk, Greenland's capital city, where record cold is keeping the city still buried in snow, climate change skeptic Steven Goddard writes.

Normally by this date, around 20 percent of Greenland is melting.

"This year the area of melt is less than 2 percent – the latest start to a melt season on record," he writes, noting: "Temperatures have plummeted over the past decade."

Northeast Greenland also saw its coldest May on record since measurements started back in 1949, while the island as a whole is colder than normal, the Daily Caller reports, citing Danish Meteorological Institute data. [Which is a much more credible source than NOAA now that the US agency was found to be fudging their data.]

"Greenland has gained half a trillion tons of snow and ice since September," Goddard writes.

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To Tee Off First, Sunday

Alone

Assuming He Shows Up

The AP is reporting:

Tiger Woods hit a new low with a career high.

Right when it looked as though Woods was slowly making some semblance of progress, he posted an 85 on Saturday at the Memorial for the worst score of his career. It was three shots higher than the 82 he shot in the second round of the Phoenix Open in January, which led to him taking a two-month break from competition until he could get his game in order.

Woods ended his front nine with back-to-back double bogeys for a 42. Needing a par on the 18th hole to avoid his worst score, he hooked his tee shot into the water, flubbed two chips from short of the green and took a quadruple-bogey 8.

It was his third round in the 80s as a pro.

Woods, who had to make a 6-foot par putt on the final hole Friday just to make the cut, declined interview requests, walking out the door to sign a few autographs. About 20 minutes later, his coach and caddie were sitting at a curb waiting for a van to come by to get them.

He was in last place, meaning he would play as a single Sunday for the first time in his career.

I did not know that this was the "punishment" for being in last place going into the final round of PGA tournament. One learns something new (or old) every day.