The Very Real Effects Of Global Warming

For the first time, a study ties human-influenced global warming to the likelihood of extreme summers.

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December 6, 2004, 12:00 PM PST

"Europe's summer of 2003 seared itself into the record books as the hottest, deadliest summer the continent has endured in at least 500 years. Temperatures in Paris topped 104 degrees. Even nightfall brought little or no relief.

Now, a new analysis from researchers at the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research and Oxford University in Britain suggests more than half of the risk that the heat wave would occur can be traced to human influence on climate."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: Heat wave risk rising with emissions

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 in The Christian Science Monitor

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