At least that’s what the CBS commentators called this year’s PGA Championship at sweltering Southern Hills in Tulsa.

Don’t worry, Denyers — it’s just a coincidence it was so hot, and I know that CBS is even a less trustworthy record-keeper than NASA, so I’m sure someone will uncover a statistical error that proves a 1934 major was hotter.

But it’s no coincidence the world’s most fit golfer won. He is an all-climate player as I noted when he won “the brown British Open” at drought-stricken Royal Liverpool last year. No doubt he’ll some day win the “wettest major of all time,” too.

If my prediction that he’s going to break Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 majors by 2010 is to come true, though, he’ll need to average two per year for the next three years. An impossible task for anyone — anyone but Tiger Woods, that is.

The NYT‘s Matt Wald has a post-I35W article on “big old things,” which comprise America‘s “decaying infrastructure, the capital investments of generations long gone.” He notes:

In the future, big old things may need to survive climate change, which some experts fear will produce more extreme weather, including droughts or deluges….

That’s all I’m sayin’!

We’ve had doubts. Research says we should:

Scientists at Duke University bathed plots of North Carolina pine trees in extra carbon dioxide every day for 10 years and found that while the trees grew more tissue, only the trees that received the most water and nutrients stored enough carbon dioxide to offset the effects of global warming.

Bottom line: “if a drought takes hold, trees won’t be able to do much in the way of carbon storage.”

One researcher noted, “If water availability decreases at the same time that carbon dioxide increases, then we might not have a net gain in carbon sequestration.” Well, climate change is projected to decrease water availability in many parts of the world, including the American West.

Other interesting findings:

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