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A qualified ‘yes’?

As only a short-term stimulus plan, the American Jobs Act wouldn't address structural and external problems holding back the U.S. economy. And since the proposals' very design is transitory, it makes them difficult to compare against the broad economic plans being proposed by GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, who hope to replace Obama.

Macroeconomic Advisers, a leading economic forecast group, projected that Obama’s plan “would give a significant boost to (the gross domestic product) and employment over the near-term.”

There’s the rub. Obama’s plan aims to deliver only a short-term fix to keep the economy moving forward and avoid falling back into recession.

- Economists say Obama plan would create jobs, but... McClatchyDC.com, September 9, 2011.

2. While Environment Canada does not keep records about humidex advisories, certainly June 2005 was full of them. It issues the advisories when the temperature is above 30 and the humidity makes if feel like it's above 40.

Kimbell warns June’s hot weather may extend throughout the rest of the summer.

“We are forecasting the temperature to be above average for June, July and August. But you have to take that with a grain of salt because of our record. Three-month forecasts are very difficult to do,” he said.

But if the summer of 2005 does in fact turn out to be one of the hottest on record, does that prove that we’re truly in the throes of climate change? The short answer is no, but it’s a qualified no.