A year of extreme weather — and little climate change talk

Washington Post: So far this year we`ve seen: Probably nothing to worry about. (AP) -- The first nine months of 2012 have been the hottest in the United States on record. (Globally, this has been the eighth-warmest year on record.) -- The U.S. wildfire season this year was the second-largest by area since records began in the 1960s, topped only by 2006. In Colorado, 600 homes were destroyed in the Waldo Canyon fire. -- The biggest drought in half a century parched the Midwestern United States, sent food...

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