Climate News and Views Hot Year, Cool Response -- A view of the
year in climate Getting in Over Our Heads: Global Warming Theory
is Coming True, Recent Reports Show A storm of recent reports,
studies and measurements from scientists and trusted agencies
worldwide is making it clear that the Earth is beginning to have
the climate that greenhouse gas theory predicts will develop as
we pump more and more heat-trapping CO2 into the air. It is not
a pretty picture, as millions caught in heatwaves, record
floods, searing drought, raging wildfires and stronger
rainstorms will attest (and that is just in the American
South!). Here are some of the recent observations and long-term
measurements published in the past month. Only half-way through
the year and "2011 represents the highest damage cost-to-date in
the U.S. for any year since 1980 when we began tracking Billion-
dollar disasters." --- NOAA. "Tornadoes, flooding, drought, and
wildfires ravaged many parts of the country during the period,
and each of these extre