It's Getting Hot in Here

If you click your heels together and keep repeating, "There's no Global Warming, there's no Global Warming" it will make it so.

Except that the first six months of this year are the hottest on record.

The average temperatures of the first half of 2006 were the highest ever recorded for the continental United States, scientists announced today.

Temperatures for January through June were 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average.

Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri experienced record warmth for the period, while no state experienced cooler-than-average temperatures, reported scientists from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

It's not just heating up in the Middle East.

But perhaps market forces will help us stop or at least slow down global warming. Oil hit a new record yesterday. Will $5 gas be the tipping point for killing Hummers?