A Look Back on 2012, the Year of Extreme Weather Events

World Resources Institute: Temperatures hit an unseasonably warm 61°F in Washington D.C. earlier this week. The Middle East is blanketed in record rainfall and rare heavy snowfall, ending a nearly decade-long drought. Australia witnessed its hottest day on record this past week, stoking wildfires. And China is experiencing a bitterly cold winter, where temperatures are the lowestthey've been in almost three decades. We're only two weeks into 2013, and already we are getting a reminder of the extreme year we just emerged from....

URL: http://insights.wri.org/news/2013/01/look-back-2012-year-extreme-weather-events
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