June 13, 2011 04:33
by J. Wylie Donald
Front page news in Baltimore this past week were two stories. The first notes record temperatures in Maryland in the first full week of June, 2011. The second was a lead article this Sunday on the record year the Port of Baltimore is having moving coal from the mines of Appalachia to the coke ovens of Asia. It does not take a Shakespeare schooled in climate change to grasp the irony.
First, the weather. Central Maryland suffered four 90-plus record highs in ten days, topping out at Baltimore-Washington International Airport at 99 degrees on June 8. The summer (which hasn't even st...