Tom Nelson posts this hilarious rush to connect a hot day to CO2 induced heat.
UPDATE: Photo of the dumpster fire found, see below.
Twitter / Stphn_Lacey: In Oklahoma, it’s so hot the …
[retweeted by Michael Tobis] In Oklahoma, it’s so hot the streetlights are melting: http://bit.ly/N1xUPB
Twitter / ClimateReality(Al Gore): Hey Senator @InhofePress, even …
Hey Senator @InhofePress, even your streetlights are saying #ImTooHot http://ow.ly/cHbX4
Twitter / billmckibben: Sen Inhofe, God may be trying …
Sen Inhofe, God may be trying to get your attention. Check out this picture http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/02/630211/in-oklahoma-its-so-hot-the-street-lights-are-melting/ …[Now-deleted Climate Progress post] In Oklahoma, It’s So Hot The Street Lights Are Melting
from Climate Progress by Stephen Lacey (picture follows)
Here’s a picture from Stillwater, Oklahoma, where temperatures will reach has high as 115 degrees today. The photo comes from Patrick Hunter, who sent the picture to KFOR-TV.
Oklahoma continues to get scorched by extreme heat…
Even as residents swelter in the relentless heat, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe continued his tirade about man-made global warming during a Senate hearing yesterday, saying the science had “collapsed.”
It appears the only thing collapsing are the street lights.
Taylor-Brandy Thompson Whoever sent the pic didn’t have all the details. Plastic bulbs melted from a dumpster fire; dumpster was used for construction, although fire did start because of the heat. I saw it with my own eyes across the street from my office.
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UPDATE: I wonder if it ever occurred to these guys to check to see how many streetlights melt in Phoenix (or Riyadh and Baghdad) each year where the temperature routinely reaches 115°F and as high as 122°F ? Or why only two globes melted on one side?
Phoenix has a subtropical desert climate (Köppen: BWh), typical of the Sonoran Desert in which it lies. Phoenix has extremely hot summers and warm winters. The average summer high temperatures are some of the hottest of any major city in the United States, and approach those of cities such as Riyadh and Baghdad. The temperature reaches and exceeds 100°F (38°C), on average for 110 days of the year, including most days from late May through to early September. Highs top 110 °F (43 °C) an average of 18 days during the year. On June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122 °F (50 °C).
UPDATE2:
They are High density polyethelene HDPE
Polyethylene White Street Light Globes
http://www.decralite.com/product_details.php?pid=100
Melting Point: 266°F 130°C
http://www.dynalabcorp.com/technical_info_hd_polyethylene.asp
UPDATE3: Senator Inhofe’s office say via email to me they will be releasing a press release shortly, responding to the criticisms. NOW ONLINE HERE
UPDATE4: here’s a photo of the dumpster fire, provided by KFOR-TV via Inhofe’s Press Office
UPDATE5: here’s the ThinkProgress web page with the original post
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that’s nothing, In 1821 in Australia , thermometers exploded from the heat,
These people really have zero shame.
Fire started in a dumpser because of the heat?
Somebody isn’t paying attention to which rags they throw in a dumpster. Any dummy knows that certain chemical soaked rags in a closed environment will catch on fire when heated up. Idiots. We lost our Forest Service building to such stupidity. Workers from across the boarder were hired to re-finish the wood siding. I am assuming their training may not have “soaked” into their brains, but the solvent sure soaked into the rags.
Fire started in a dumpser because of the heat? – DBCooper
It’s not unusual at a construction site, there’s tons of flammable materials they use there like solvents, not to mention dust from wood and metal cutting. Mix all that into a dumpster on a hot day and let it cook, it just may well burst into flame.
As a resident of Oklahoma, and an Okie by birth, this is nothing new. Just about every year we have water rationing. We also get pretty hot in the summer, amazingly enough.
Once beliefs are handed over to the Ego, it is very reluctant to let go. And don’t confuse the Ego with the mind – totally different animal.
Loss of Face is not just a strange idea from Asian countries. Alarmists suffer from the symptoms as well.
Well, I managed to see the light (I was a paid up member of the Canadian Green party!) – so get over it Alarmists. Do some research, check out a few facts, and stop getting your news from the BBC, (most of their retirement funds are invested in the Carbon market – what does that tell you about their objectivity?), CNN, and MSNBC.
You have to forgive them. They have been conditioned for several years to look at everything but real thermometers since the real thermometers were disproving the IPCC science. Now they have a chance to talk about actual heat, rather than polar bears and “weird” weather, so they go all wild and carefree. Also, all the 350.org people should be sympathized as lightly mentally handicapped, and victims of the Twitter culture.
An alarmist will never let the facts get in the way of a good visual. It’s basically a game to them.
How does global warming cause only 1 dumpster to catch on fire?
“Global warming is predicted to have a profound impact on the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea-level rise. Recent mass loss in the northwest of Greenland has been substantial. Using aerial photographs, we produced digital elevation models and extended the time record of recent observed marginal dynamic thinning back to the mid-1980s. We reveal two independent dynamic ice loss events on the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet margin: from 1985 to 1993 and 2005 to 2010, which were separated by limited mass changes. Our results suggest that the ice mass changes in this sector were primarily caused by short-lived dynamic ice loss events rather than changes in the surface mass balance. This finding challenges predictions about the future response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to increasing global temperatures. ”
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6094/569.abstract?sid=40703fa2-9462-4ea7-8aea-c7d23fb8e50d
New Flash! Latest Scientific Research Reveals….ALL FIRES START DUE TO HEAT!
“An alarmist will never let the facts get in the way of a good visual.”
Any visual will do because the thermometers aren’t giving them what they want. The PR folks know these peeps very well. Between the visuals and highlighting the American right-wing windbags who use the occasions to call for the dismantling of all pollution enforcement, it is pretty easy to keeps these drones on the plantation.
Tommy Tommy Tommy…. the ONE dumpster caught on fire because you don’t understand the difference between weather and climate!
You’d think that anyone looking at the picture would wonder why only two spheres melted, and only on one side. Common sense eludes alarmists.
Metal Halide street lights, which these probably are, operate around 250-300F. Even if they are incandescent…..does anyone remember the easy bake oven?
On their website they mention “Mandatory Water rationing”, I did not read further (thereby avoid nausea) but I will bet it is more along the lines of outside landscape irrigation (watering) restrictions.
There IS a difference … but perhaps not to the alarmist group-think crowd looking for doom under every (c)rock …
“Watering Restrictions” – watering limited to twice a week – http://www.cityofallen.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?aid=128
BUT it’s because we have an infestation of Zebra Muscles that preclude the use of certain reservoirs to avoid their spread to other reservoirs …
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Obviously the CO2 given off by the dumpster fire coalesced between the sun and the streetlights thus acting like a magnifying glass.
I guess Ma Gaia thinks of streetlights the way little boys think of ants.
Also being an Okie I know that the La Nina / El Nino events tend to push our weather patterns. Since we have been moving into an El Nino is there a guess to the lag when the current phase will have effect on the area?
BTW Stillwater is home of OSU, nuff said 🙂
Tommy says:
August 2, 2012 at 1:22 pm
How does global warming cause only 1 dumpster to catch on fire?
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Maybe it was the only dumpster in town that wasn’t painted green?
I wonder if Michael Tobis ran this story through the “Planet3.0 Scientific Review Panel” before he retweeted this misinformation 😛
Is this going to start a trend of dumpster fires?
Pamela Gray at 1:09 pm Hey would the building you are talking about have been the taj mahal outside of Enterprise ? Typical government structure built to obscene standards with grandioso architecture . Hey all they need is office buildings but they have to be lavish instead . While I regret the waste of taxpayer money , I don’t really miss that building.
Alarmists are grasping at straws. They are just so desperate for CAGW to be true!
If the dumpster fire happened because of the heat, why did it happen at night?