Will hottest year ever force US to confront climate change?

The Week: CLIMATE change may finally be thrust centre stage in the US as the country digests the fact that 2012 was the hottest year in more than a century of record-keeping. Man-made climate change barely featured in last year's presidential campaign, but the news that 2012's average temperature was 55.3F – a full 1F above the previous record - may prove the tipping point for politicians and citizens alike. "Yes – it's climate change," said Time, describing the new record as "a landslide, meteorological...

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