"Wheat, Corn Prices Climb as Heat Takes Toll on Crops"
"Wheat prices rose Wednesday as the hot, dry summer continued to take its toll on crops in the U.S. and Russia."
Source: AP, 06/28/2012
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"Monster Wildfire Rages in Colorado"
"Thousands flee homes as western wildfires persist. Colorado's Governor Gary Herbert estimates the fire has caused millions of dollars worth of damage. Soot and smoke also worry residents."
Source: Reuters, 06/27/2012
"Record Heat Hampers Efforts to Fight Wildfires"
"MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. -- Searing, record-setting heat in the interior West didn't loosen its grip on firefighters struggling to contain blazes in Colorado, Utah and other Rocky Mountain states. Colorado has endured nearly a week of 100-plus degree days and low humidity, sapping moisture from timber and grass, creating a devastating formula for volatile wildfires across the state and punishing conditions for firefighters."
Source: AP, 06/26/2012
"Essay: Gardening In a Globally Weirded World"
"MONTPELIER, Vt. -- While skeptics can go on denying climate change, gardeners know better. In our little patch of this globally warmed world, a century or more of accumulated growing wisdom is being thrown out the greenhouse door with bathwater and baby."
Source: Daily Climate, 06/22/2012
"Southwest Tribes Struggle With Climate Change Fallout"
"If you like scary, suspense-filled stories and will get the chance to read only one book this fall … may we suggest the spine-tingling Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States?"
Source: Indian Country Today, 06/15/2012
"Climate Change Threatens Power Output, Study Says"
"As the climate gets warmer, so do the rivers and lakes that power plants draw their cooling water from. And that is going to make it harder to generate electricity in decades to come, researchers report."
"In an article in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists measured temperatures now and projected what they would be at midcentury. The temperatures vary according to the time of year, and, even if the extremes remain similar, they will be more frequent -- meaning that the water will be too warm to allow full power production, they predict.
Source: NY Times, 06/05/2012
"Climate Change Will More Than Triple Annual US Heat-Death Toll"
"In an average summer in the United States, there are 1,332 heat-related deaths. But climate change will make that number rise to 4,608 by the end of the century, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In total, the US can expect 150,000 deaths due to excessive heat by 2100, the report projects."
Source: Mother Jones, 05/24/2012
"Ohio Senate Approves New Fracking Rules"
"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio senators approved new regulations for horizontal shale drilling known as fracking on Tuesday in a bipartisan vote punctuated by a spoken rendition of 'The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song."
Source: AP, 05/17/2012
"An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts"
"Industry giants say their case is misguided. But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands."
Source: Atlantic, 05/11/2012
Heartland Pulls Billboard Comparing Warming Science to Mass Murder
"Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower Expressway on Friday may have been surprised to see Ted Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, staring at them from a massive billboard. 'I still believe in global warming. Do you?' the billboard read in large maroon letters. Just below was the Web address www.heartland.org. Hours later, the digital billboard was gone. It seems that the ad campaign, sponsored by the conservative Heartland Institute, had bombed."
Source: Green (NYT), 05/07/2012
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