Thursday, July 5, 2012

Heat wave bakes eastern half of the US but is climate change to blame?

Guardian: It's hot in the eastern United States. For those that live here, sweaty shirts and panting have become the norm. For those that don't, let me just tell you that for everyone, except air conditioning salespeople, it is a rather unpleasant experience. But just how hot is it? There have been no fewer than 40,113 high temperature records set or tied this year already, compared to only 5,835 low records. With more weather stations recording data than ever, that stat might be somewhat misleading, but...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/05/heat-wave-us-climate-change

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