Saturday, July 7, 2012

Heat Wave Peaks After Breaking Thousands of Records

Climate Central: The June to July heat wave finally began to ebb on Saturday, but not before breaking thousands of warm temperature records across the country. In many cases, records that had stood since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s have been equaled or exceeded, and this event is likely to go down in history as one of America's worst-ever early summer heat waves. It is also shining a spotlight on the role that human activities may be playing in this event, since studies have shown that manmade global warming...

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