"Warming Earth Heading for Hottest Year on Record"
"Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say."
Source: AP, 10/21/2014
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"Late Season Heat Wave Stokes California Wildfire Fears"
"LOS ANGELES - The fall season has brought a wave of hot, dry weather to California, with parts of the state baking this weekend in triple-digit temperatures and officials expressing concern the summer-like heat could spark a massive wildfire."
Source: Reuters, 10/06/2014
"Climate Change Is Driving Heat Waves Around The World: Report"
"The record-setting heat wave in Australia last year was "largely attributable" to human-caused climate change, according to a synthesis report released Monday. Heat waves in Japan, Korea, China and Europe were also "substantially influenced" by global warming, the report found."
Source: Huffington Post, 09/30/2014
"Obama To Tout U.S. Climate Plan At U.N. Summit"
"President Barack Obama will highlight strides the United States has made on climate change when he addresses a major U.N. climate summit next week, senior administration officials said on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 09/19/2014
"Rocky Mountain Forests Vanishing as Planet Heats Up"
"Climate change could kill up to 90 percent of the forests covering the Rocky Mountains, warned the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists today in a new study based in part on projections made by the U.S. Forest Service."
Source: ENS, 09/11/2014
Heat Waves America's Deadliest Weather Disaster; Don't Have To Be
"Heat waves are quickly becoming one of the world's deadliest weather phenomena. In the United States, extreme heat now kills more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding. And a massive heat wave, like the one that hit Europe in 2003, can kill tens of thousands in a blow."
Source: Vox, 09/10/2014
"Cities Prepare for Warm Climate Without Saying So"
"GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — With climate change still a political minefield across the nation despite the strong scientific consensus that it's happening, some community leaders have hit upon a way of preparing for the potentially severe local consequences without triggering explosions of partisan warfare: Just change the subject."
Source: AP, 09/09/2014
"Just 13, and Working Risky 12-Hour Shifts in the Tobacco Fields"
"PINK HILL, N.C. — On many mornings, as tobacco plants tower around her, Saray Cambray Alvarez pulls a black plastic garbage bag over her 13-year-old body to protect her skin from leaves dripping with nicotine-tinged dew."
Source: NY Times, 09/08/2014
"Bad Weather for 2050 as TV Forecasters Imagine Climate Change"
"Imaginary television weather forecasts predicted floods, storms and searing heat from Arizona to Zambia within four decades, as part of a United Nations campaign on Monday to draw attention to a U.N. summit this month on fighting global warming."
Source: Reuters, 09/04/2014
"U.N. Draft Report Lists Unchecked Emissions’ Risks"
"Runaway growth in the emission of greenhouse gases is swamping all political efforts to deal with the problem, raising the risk of “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” over the coming decades, according to a draft of a major new United Nations report."
Source: , 08/27/2014
