From Storms to Droughts, Devastating Extreme Weather Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben | May. 26, 2011 (Interview)

(Multimedia) 2011 has already become the deadliest year for tornado outbreaks in the United States since 1953, with more than 500 people killed. Extreme weather has made headlines across the world, as well, with megafloods occurring in Colombia, Vietnam, Pakistan and Australia, even as the Amazon just faced its second hundred-year drought in the past five years. News audiences are seeing the warning "severe weather" increasingly flash across TV screens, but little ... Full Story »

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - May. 26, 2011

This opinion piece has no journalistic content. The authors interview one of the most forceful anti-science advocates in the U.S. and do not question a single one of his assertions. The science can be summarized in one simple fact: 2011 has thus far been significantly cooler than the majority of the years in the past decade. In fact there has been a cooling trend since April 2010. So "warming" does not explain any of the weather items covering in the piece.

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