"Most Extreme Weather Has Climate Change Link, Study Says"
"Global warming has created a 'new normal,' scientists say, and the old hesitance to attribute extreme weather to climate change is outdated.":
Source: InsideClimate News, 06/24/2015
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"Climate Change Health Risk Is a "Medical Emergency", Experts Warn"
"The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 06/23/2015
"Heat Wave Kills More Than 180 in Pakistan's Southern Sindh"
"An intense heat wave over three days has killed more than 180 people in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said on Monday, leading authorities to declare an emergency as the electricity grid crashed and bodies stacked up in the morgues."
Source: Reuters, 06/23/2015
Extreme Weather Risk From Climate to Rise Over Next Century: Report
"More people will be exposed to floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather associated with climate change over the next century than previously thought, according to a new report in the British medical journal The Lancet."
Source: NY Times, 06/23/2015
"Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought"
Arizona's Navajo Generating Station, the largest power plant in the West, powers pumps that lift trillions of gallons of water out of the Colorado River and carry it 336 miles to fuel growth in Tucson and Phoenix. As the generators spin, they spew more more greenhouse gases than almost any other coal plant in the U.S.
Source: ProPublica, 06/17/2015
Killing the Colorado: "The ‘Water Witch’"
"Pat Mulroy Preached Conservation While Backing Growth in Las Vegas".
Source: ProPublica, 06/03/2015
"India Heat Wave Kills 2,330 People as Millions Wait for Rain"
"The heat wave gripping India has killed 2,330 people, officials announced on Tuesday, as meteorologists warned that monsoon rains could still be days away."
Source: CNN, 06/02/2015
"More Than 500 People Killed as Heat Wave Bakes Parts of India"
"Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heat wave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 05/26/2015
Study: US Exposure To Heat Extremes Could Rise Six-Fold By Mid-Century
"Vastly more Americans will be exposed to dangerous heat waves in future decades because of a combination of rising temperatures and rapid population growth in the South and West, scientists warned in a study published Monday."
Source: Wash Post, 05/19/2015
"New Study Links Weather Extremes to Global Warming"
"The moderate global warming that has already occurred as a result of human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes since the Industrial Revolution, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that a failure to bring greenhouse gases under control could eventually lead to a 62-fold increase in such heat blasts."
Source: NY Times, 04/28/2015
