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
Less than 18 months ago the area just north of the Stillwater area experience a record low of -13 degrees F.
“If the dumpster fire happened because of the heat, why did it happen at night?”
My point exactly. Spontaneous combustion needs no external heat source. But blaming it on global warming is so much more fun than old, dry scientific facts.
When I first saw the lead on this I thought – What a load of crap. I used to die-cast aluminum housings for mercury vapor lights when they first came out in the 1970’s. Aluminum is molten at 12-1400 degrees F. Did not know they were plastic. Any idea on fluid temperature for plastic?
John McGuire, it is indeed that building. It was a structure built by a company in California and then leased to the various government agencies who used it. It is not being rebuilt as far as I know. The agencies have spread out into other spaces in buildings in Enterprise and Joseph. The issue of the rags is still under investigation as to safety violations and insurance. I am guessing that the county will be looking at writing a grant for another space. Not that we are packed with buildings all full up with people crowding the streets wanting to buy our wares and services. If schools have to pack their students into portables behind the main school building, why do other government agencies get the newest award winning digs the minute they run out of room for an extra coffee cup?
What happened to the days when Nature’s fury was something to overcome.
She will not relent, She drives all before Her.
@ur momisugly think-progress “Correction: The lamp was standing pretty close to a recent fire, so it’s likely they didn’t melt from the heat.”
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“Warmist” will inevitably implant the sense of the possible regardless of the actual facts …. “likely” …..what ? “likely” there was an actual fire DUH !
I wonder what these folks thought when there were fires in flooded New Orleans after that Hurricane Katrina-induced drought (lol) brought in all that dry air.
Ok, so one melted street light and tree ring proxy data from one tree (YAD061) = proof of global warming? Their data is so robust.
It seems like the warm-earthers have almost zero scientific acumen in the basic sciences. Whether dealing with physics, chemistry, or statistics—the foundations of applied sciences—these people appear to have no requisite training or understanding. The puzzling fact is that much of the needed basic sciences for climate science was offered in high school or earlier.
I’ll bet those lamps heat up beyond 115 deg F after the bulbs are on for a few minutes.
Lesson for the warmists: fire is hot.
I haven’t known ThinkProgress ’til now, but reading the stupid commentators at their site, using tons of F words even in their nicknames made me wonder how they’ve chosen ‘ThinkProgress’ for their blog name.
Just in time, I found the back button of my browser to return to WUWT before I crack up with laughter about all those eggheads.
Phewww… there’s so much more intelligence over here.
O ye sceptical persons. Of course this is global warming. What shape d’you think those streetlights were before they melted? 😉
Desperate.
The utter lack of ability and willingness by warmists to apply Plausibility Tests to claims and assertions is a never ending source of astonishment. It’s also an immense asset to those of us combatting their Global Putsch.
So, ThinkProgress just passed the exam to be mentioned under ‘Unreliable’ at the WUWT Blogroll
Clearly the problem is the dumpsters themselves. The best way to prevent CO2 based dumpster fires is through increased government regulation. They should be licensed, inspected monthly, have CO2 detectors and an NFPA compliant fire protection system which should be tested by a governing authority annually.
Has any one charted this unprecedented increase in dumpster fires?
Thanks Anthony.
Anthony Scalzi says:
August 2, 2012 at 2:20 pm
If the dumpster fire happened because of the heat, why did it happen at night?
It wasn’t night, the fire was very bright due to all the global warming; the necessarily very short exposure time made it *look* like night in the same way as the pictures of the atomic blasts are dark all around. Don’t you know anything?
There have never been dumpster fires until the last 10 years, when global warming has reached its peak. In fact, before 1995, nothing ever burned. Ever.
Greetings to fellow Okies posting on WUWT! As a former resident of Broken Arrow, OK, I can attest to the BLAZING HEAT every summer!! However, I’m now safely ensconced in my hometown Chicago, where we have had ….a record hot summer & ongoing drought. Heat not up to OK standards though. You have to live through it to understand it.
Damn that carbon dioxide! It keeps following me around! When our streetlights melt, I’ll post pictures.