*I know anecdotes don't prove anything. I'm not trying to scientifically prove climate change is happening- for me just showing it's a real possibility is enough reason for the world to act, given what's at stake.
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From World Water Day, one of 36 photos. Here, a journalist takes a sample of polluted red-colored water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province, China, on December 13, 2011. According to local media, the sources of the pollution were two illegal chemical plants discharging their production waste water into the rain sewer pipes. (Reuters/China Daily)
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Proving that climate change is about extremes of all types, not just heat, this map shows that as the Eastern US is experiencing record highs, temperatures in the West are significantly colder than usual.
In an absurdly weird weather year, this is the weirdest weather map yet. May-like Weather in the East, While Snow Slams the West | Climate Central)
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GE rejects Republicans’ climate change doubts →
Even big business is leaving the climate denial loonies out in the cold.
“General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science.
The US industrial and financial conglomerate said it had long seen climate change as a valid concern after an internal evaluation of the scientific case in 2005.”
Read the rest at Financial Times (possibly paywalled)
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This map shows how many standard deviations away from the norm the current record high temperatures are in the US. Basically, the darkest red represents extreme variations from normal temperatures (for March 20) that used to happen only every 4,000 years or so, before the climate began changing. Even the second-darkest reds should only happen every 40 years without climate change.
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Interesting article about the current heat wave in the US
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html
Apparently, one town in Michigan just broke the previous record for yesterday by 29 degrees!
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Biodun Iginla's BBC News Blog: Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real →
by Alyssa Mann and Biodun Iginla, BBC News
WASHINGTON — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.
The study of the…
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