Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Listen up, Senator Inhoffe

It's a CNN article called "Around the globe, 2007 is on track to be a year of extreme weather". Take a look:

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Extreme weather has plagued the globe this year, a U.N. agency says, causing some of the highest temperatures on record.

The World Meteorological Organization said "global land surface temperatures for January and April will likely be ranked as the warmest since records began in 1880," according to the United Nations.

WMO said temperatures were 1.89 degrees Celsius (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average for January and 1.37 degrees C (2.45 degrees F) higher than average for April.

The agency found that climate warming was unequivocal and most likely "due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels."
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Four monsoon depressions, double the normal number, caused heavy flooding in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. On Monday, floodwaters receded in parts of South Asia, but the death toll rose to 347, officials said.
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Southeastern Europe did not escape the unusual weather. The area suffered record-breaking heat in June and July.

I really don't have anything to say here. I just wanted my readers to see this. We all know what we have to do as a species. Will we do it or not? That's the question.

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