Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wearing jackets in July? | PressDemocrat.com
Temperatures in Santa Rosa have been 4 degrees colder, on average, compared with the daily highs over the past 30 years from late May to this point in the summer.
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"It's hella cold," said Steve Anderson, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Monterey.
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Anderson said the below-80 days might be something West Coasters should get used to, as climatologists point toward global warming.

"Even though places will be warmer, along the immediate coastal area it will be cooler because of increased offshore flow due to warmer inland temperatures," Anderson said.
Dr. Gridlock - Police nab hundreds in HOV sting
Local and state police in Maryland and Virginia cited hundreds of drivers for violating HOV rules on Wednesday, authorities said.
[Zimbabwe: Alleged global warming is the least of this country's problems; British Council sponsors musician and poet to promote climate hoax here]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AlertNet) - Seventy-six-year-old Tenge Musasa is flummoxed by the changing climate around her.
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Unaware about the process of climate change, she attributes these seemingly inexplicable weather changes to supernatural powers, and performs religious rituals in an attempt to pacify what she sees as uneasy spirits.
...Under the British Council's Climate Change Icons programme, popular local musician Alexio Kawara and renowned poet Albert Nyathi are now appearing before school and community groups to help spread awareness of climate change and sensitize people to the challenges it can bring.
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An expert with one government environment agency said that while climate change was becoming a government priority, other problems that Zimbabwe has been struggling with - including widespread poverty and a broad HIV/AIDS epidemic - were consuming the majority of the government's available financial resources.

"There is so much poverty here that climate change remains in the periphery of planning and budgeting," said the official, who asked not to be named.

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