The temperature hit 108 degrees in Seattle, an all-time record, on Monday, June 28, 2021. On this same day, it was 120 degrees at Furnace Creek, Death Valley, far short of the 135-degree record set there in 1913. (Guess that disproves global warming, huh.) Anyway, the worst is over, and it will cool[...]
Archive for June 28th, 2021
June 28th, 2021 - 10:27 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Seattle experiencing power outages during heat wave
About 13,000 PSE customers in Bellevue have been without power since Saturday, according to KOMO News (story here), and roughly 11,000 Seattle City Light customers are without power as of Monday evening, according to SCL’s system map (here). In addition, WSDOT reported some I-5 lane closures b[...]
Trump wanted the military to attack protesters
The murder of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman with a history of excessive force complaints, prompted the largest civil-rights demonstrations in U.S. history. Those protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. But America’s president at the time was a white supremacist,[...]
Australian scientist who worked at Wuhan debunks conspiracy theory
An Australian scientist who worked at the Wuhan lab in 2019 saw nothing to suggest that’s where Covid-19 came from. Dr. Danielle Anderson (photo, left), a leading expert on bat-borne viruses, says the Wuhan lab is like other such facilities she’s worked in, with even better safety protoc[...]