By James A. Lyons
By arming the rebels, we're aiding al Qaeda
With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.
With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit.
The snowstorm that walloped the Northeast with about 3 feet in some places didn't add up to being that bad, federal statistics say.
Last summer's headlines blared, "Hottest July in the history of the United States." The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said so, so it must be true.
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.
America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.
Government meteorologists say 2012 was by far the hottest year on record in the United States.
Feeling the heat? So is a lot of the country.
Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, Oklahoma just reclaimed its crown.
The world's climate is not only continuing to warm, it's adding heat-trapping greenhouse gases even faster than in the past, researchers said Tuesday.
It was a spring to remember, with America pummeled by tornadoes, floods, wildfire, snowmelt, thunderstorms and drought.
The devastation is stunning _ homes and lives shattered as the deadliest swarm of twisters in three years battered up to 15 states. Ultimately, this could turn out to be among the top 10 three-day outbreaks for number of tornadoes, though experts can't be sure until all the reports are sorted, said Greg Carbin of the federal Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
February conspired to have it both ways weather-wise _ more snow and less ice than normal.
The Earth continues to feel the heat.
Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.
