Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting!

The Chinese are probably already on it..

Incredible, isn't it?

if it was the heat it would melt from the top down, not on the side like that.

yes, global warming is bad, but it didn't melt those streetlights

That is alarming. To all our DUers in Oklahoma, stay cool!

I wish stock market investors could see this. Could understand what every dollar in the market is doing to our environment, what is says about their values and what is most important to them.
The wildlife is vanishing around my home. I know it must be suffering everywhere. They need our help now. The time to profit off destroying their homes is over.

and we had a streak of like 5 days of 100+ temps and the handle of our grill brush melted.

DemocracyNow!
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/2/climate_skeptic_koch_funded_scientist_richard

Even these guys can't spread the bullshit with a straight face anymore.

Never thought spinach and termaters needed pasturin'

the streetlight covers were made of glass.

Never mind the trash bin that was on fire next to them........and that the lights in the back are unharmed......c'mon now, there are too many examples of real high heat out there.....this isn't one.

The same Sen. Inhofe who is a huge climate change denier.

..."plastic light housings. Still, that dumpster fire was caused and aggravated by the record heat and dryness."
yeah, and the match or cigarette someone threw in it.

...and it is like turning on the oven, opening it, and turning on the fan in the oven. It is hot, dry air. Since, July 16th, we have had over 100 degree highs, except one bone-chilling day, when the high was a paltry 97 degrees. I am more afraid of fires at this point. It hasn't rained here since July 26th and we only got .23 of an inch. For the entire month, we only had .44 of an inch of rain; three inches below average. Everything is very dry and it looks like fall here; yards are dead, trees are losing or have lost all their leaves, and animals are no where to be seen. I got the stink-eye today from a hummingbird because I hadn't re-filled the feeder. It looked at the feeder, then me, then the feeder, then me again before flying off. I can only imagine what she would have said could she speak.

Another possible problem, which happened here a few years back, was it got so damn hot, for so long, the roads started erupting. In one place it ripped across a 4-lane highway and looked like a fault line from an earthquake. The house is very hot, even in the evenings despite having the air running, and there have been spotty brown outs, too. The puppies don't dawdle when they go outside to potty...it's do your business, come back in the house and flop on the air vent or ceramic floor.

how many global warming doomers latched onto this story and actually believed that weather caused the glass to melt. What else will they believe and repeat?

I'm sure thousands of teabaggers and neocons didn't think it through either.

edit: the headline is about heat, I should say. I think many recs of this thread reacted to only that, and not the plain revelation further down that there was a dumpster fire in close proximity, and how the photo reveals the lamp melting wasn't global, so to speak, but rather on one side. Kind of like it would look if a dumpster fire caused it.

...your crow is ready...

forecast it is over 100 there.

When I saw the highest recorded temperature in his state I thought Mother Nature was sending Inhofe a personal message.

Dumb, dumb, dumb story that gives fodder to the idiots who downplay or deny climate change.

And receiving, deservedly, widespread ridicule.

Even my fans can't keep up with the heat, it makes it like a blast furnace... still better than nothing.