MioMyo
2009-06-08 01:05:40 UTC
Yet many on the left still will dispute & deny the indisputable.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090606/GPG0101/90606042/1261/GPG05/Weather++Record+temperature+set+in+Green+Bay+Saturday
The high temperature for the day, reached at 9:50 a.m., was 52. That set a
record for the lowest high temperature for June 6, according to the National
Weather Service office in Ashwaubenon.
The old mark was 53, set in 1943.
Similar records were set across Wisconsin today. Manitowoc's high was 54,
breaking the record of 56 set in 1935. In central Wisconsin, records were
set in Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield and Merrill, all breaking
marks set in 1935.
Better get used to it. There are showers and thunderstorms in the forecast
for Green Bay through Monday night, with highs of 55 on Sunday and 59 on
Monday. Things look better for Tuesday, when it's expected to be partly
sunny and 66.
http://www.kxmc.com/News/386720.asp
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in
nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.
National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there
were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on
Saturday.
Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it's not
unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the
past 10 years.
Williston and Bismarck had received only rain as of mid-Saturday, but Vining
said snow was possible in those cities later in the day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/burger-king-global-warming-us
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise
owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is
baloney".
The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment
Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting "kinda like
cockroaches" over the controversy. MIC says it does not believe Burger King
has the authority to make it take the signs down.
The dispute began to sizzle last week, when a local newspaper reporter in
Memphis, Tennessee, noticed the signs outside two restaurants in the city
and contacted the corporation to establish if the message represented its
official viewpoint. Burger King's headquarters in Miami said it did not,
adding that it had ordered MIC to take the signs down.
But a few days later readers of the Memphis paper said they had seen about a
dozen Burger King restaurants across the state displaying the signs and that
some had yet to be taken down. Media attempts to contact MIC to establish
why it was taking an apparently defiant stance were rebuffed, but the
Guardian managed to grill MIC's marketing president, John McNelis.
"I would think [Burger King] would run from any form of controversy kinda
like cockroaches when the lights get turned on," said Mr McNelis. "I'm not
aware of any direction that they gave the franchisee and I don't think they
have the authority to do it."
McNelis added: "The [restaurant] management team can put the message up
there if they want to. It is private property and here in the US we do have
some rights. Notwithstanding a franchise agreement, I could load a Brinks
vehicle with [rights] I've got so many of them. By the time the Burger King
lawyers work out how to make that stick we'd be in the year 2020."
He continued: "Burger King can bluster all they want about what they can
tell the franchisee to do, but we have free-speech rights in this country so
I don't think there's any concerns."
The Guardian sent a transcript of the interview to Susan Robison, Burger
King's vice-president of corporate communications.
She responded: "The statement that was posted on several restaurants' reader
boards in the Memphis area, and the view expressed by the franchisee on this
issue does not reflect Burger King Corp's opinion . BKC has guidelines for
signage used by franchisees [which] were not followed. We have asked the
franchisee to remove the signage and have been told that the franchisee will
comply."
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20090606/GPG0101/90606042/1261/GPG05/Weather++Record+temperature+set+in+Green+Bay+Saturday
The high temperature for the day, reached at 9:50 a.m., was 52. That set a
record for the lowest high temperature for June 6, according to the National
Weather Service office in Ashwaubenon.
The old mark was 53, set in 1943.
Similar records were set across Wisconsin today. Manitowoc's high was 54,
breaking the record of 56 set in 1935. In central Wisconsin, records were
set in Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield and Merrill, all breaking
marks set in 1935.
Better get used to it. There are showers and thunderstorms in the forecast
for Green Bay through Monday night, with highs of 55 on Sunday and 59 on
Monday. Things look better for Tuesday, when it's expected to be partly
sunny and 66.
http://www.kxmc.com/News/386720.asp
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in
nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.
National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there
were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on
Saturday.
Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it's not
unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the
past 10 years.
Williston and Bismarck had received only rain as of mid-Saturday, but Vining
said snow was possible in those cities later in the day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/05/burger-king-global-warming-us
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise
owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is
baloney".
The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment
Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting "kinda like
cockroaches" over the controversy. MIC says it does not believe Burger King
has the authority to make it take the signs down.
The dispute began to sizzle last week, when a local newspaper reporter in
Memphis, Tennessee, noticed the signs outside two restaurants in the city
and contacted the corporation to establish if the message represented its
official viewpoint. Burger King's headquarters in Miami said it did not,
adding that it had ordered MIC to take the signs down.
But a few days later readers of the Memphis paper said they had seen about a
dozen Burger King restaurants across the state displaying the signs and that
some had yet to be taken down. Media attempts to contact MIC to establish
why it was taking an apparently defiant stance were rebuffed, but the
Guardian managed to grill MIC's marketing president, John McNelis.
"I would think [Burger King] would run from any form of controversy kinda
like cockroaches when the lights get turned on," said Mr McNelis. "I'm not
aware of any direction that they gave the franchisee and I don't think they
have the authority to do it."
McNelis added: "The [restaurant] management team can put the message up
there if they want to. It is private property and here in the US we do have
some rights. Notwithstanding a franchise agreement, I could load a Brinks
vehicle with [rights] I've got so many of them. By the time the Burger King
lawyers work out how to make that stick we'd be in the year 2020."
He continued: "Burger King can bluster all they want about what they can
tell the franchisee to do, but we have free-speech rights in this country so
I don't think there's any concerns."
The Guardian sent a transcript of the interview to Susan Robison, Burger
King's vice-president of corporate communications.
She responded: "The statement that was posted on several restaurants' reader
boards in the Memphis area, and the view expressed by the franchisee on this
issue does not reflect Burger King Corp's opinion . BKC has guidelines for
signage used by franchisees [which] were not followed. We have asked the
franchisee to remove the signage and have been told that the franchisee will
comply."