Alarmist fact checking – street lights don't melt at 115°F

Dang, the alarmists nearly had their miracle.

Clearly, that dumpster fire created a lot of CO2, which caused the Earth to heat up and melt those lights. A child could understand it.

Oh, come on! Next thing you know, they’ll be claiming humans spontaneously combust due to climate change/AGW! Cows, maybe! Humans, not so much!

“BUT it’s because we have an infestation of Zebra Muscles ”
Poor Zebras, missing their mussels!

From TFA (The Fine Article):

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.

OK, what was Inhofe’s tirade?

I ask unanimous consent to include his entire statement in the Record because he goes over point after point and discredits everything that was said by this witness–whose name is Christopher Field–this morning. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=e841f28c-802a-23ad-42b3-7c8aa4ac8b1b

Oh dear. Did Field lie? Did he perjure himself? Could he be in trouble? Probably not.
On the other hand, nobody objected to Pielke’s statement being read into the record. Some of us were worried about the senate hearing being one sided. No worries. Even the Democrats aren’t buying the MBE (Male Bovine Excrement) any more.

A friend in Kentucky USA nearly lost his home to spontaneous combustion of rags from the staining and cleanup of a do-it-yourself floor refinishing job. If not for his dog going crazy, my friend would have lost his life, too. Contractors need to be more aware of what is dangerous in their line of work. OFF-TOPIC: NC lawmakers are catching a lot of heat for passing a law which ignores the sea level rise report by ???? (I forget). I assume the letter writing is being done by the environmental groups.

Photog: “I’d say that this was due to a fire semi-close by coupled with the unbelievable heat we are experiencing.”
Coupled? Really, come on dude!
Heat of the day at 114F vs. Heat of the nearby dumpster fire at 1,800 to 2,200F; a ratio of 17.5 to 1.
But your own picture is the clue to the actual cause. Only the globes closest to fire are melted and only those sides facing the fire.
Is there any “Face Palm” even remotely appropriate enough for this AGW Alarmism?

The fire started due to the heat… AT NIGHT ??? Do I detect long noses about?
I live in OKC and today, August 2nd, my background thermometer that tracks NOAA’s hourly averages pretty perfectly (but not the higher six hour maximums, they are mostly one or two degrees higher, even on their own reports) peaked at 108.1F and I’m really curious what their report says about today. They were predicting 113F at noon and an hour later dropped it to 111F, mine never got close, though it did match the one-day high of 111F last year, 111.1F.
Oh, the NOAA heat games. Wiley Post Airport’s (KPWA) tarmac must really be cooking this afternoon.
You might gather it from this snipped of NOAA’s KPWA report if the formatting is not too bad:

02   16:53   111 F
02   15:53   110
02   14:53   110
02   13:53   107
02   12:53   104   106 (high of the last six hours, see the +2 ??)
02   11:53   103
02   10:53    99
02   09:53   96
02   08:53   91
02   07:53   86
02   06:53   85   94 (high of the last six hours)

Stupid deniers. You just don’t understand.
Yes, dumpster fires have occurred since long before industrialization increased atmospheric CO2. But this dumpster fire is consistent with climate models that show the dangers of global warming, including an increase in dumpster temeratures leading to more frequent dumpster fires as global warming continues to accelerate. It is like loading the dice, and that is what we are seeing in the tragic Great Oklahoma Dumpster Fire of 2012. This is what Global Warming looks like.
And please stop complaining about official temperature recording stations being located next to flaming dumpsters. We adjust for that, really we do.

Gee can’t they at least check the facts?
Polymethylpentene PMP is used for outdoor lamp covers.
Softening point is 160°C and melting point 240 °C link Other plastics are about 100°C and up for softening points. The low softening point plastics would never be considered for the application.
Think styrofoam cups and boiling tea water. Though that is pushing it for styrofoam. Large cell foam to have a softening point in the neighborhood of 80ºC and microcellular foam to have a softening point closer to 105ºC.