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terrible: RT @ForecastFacts: Over 500 dead as killer heat wave continues in India, temps hit 115° http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Heatwave-continues-over-500-dead-since-April/articleshow/20317050.cms … #poisonedweather

Heatwave continues, over 500 dead since April - The Times of India

Most people stayed indoors as humidity and long hours of power outages and cuts added to people's woes.

Flashback: Hundreds Die in Cold Waves — Media Keep Flogging Global Warming

For much of the world, 2012 is going out the way it came in, with a deadly cold wave, leaving hundreds dead in its wake.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Discover Mag: 'Associating natural disasters with climate change...is a distortion'

[Discover Mag] Associating natural disasters with climate change — like some did last week with the massive tornado that touched down in Oklahoma — is a distortion that has been rattling around for nearly a decade or longer.
The most glaring example may be Al Gore’s portrayal of Hurricane Katrina in his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth. According to Gore, the hurricane was the outcome of unchecked anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and a harbinger of what’s to come.
But he was quickly called out for misrepresenting the science to gain support for his cause.

Solar Industry Anxious Over Defective Panels - NYTimes.com

LOS ANGELES — The solar panels covering a vast warehouse roof in the sun-soaked Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles were only two years into their expected 25-year life span when they began to fail.

Coatings that protect the panels disintegrated while other defects caused two fires that took the system offline for two years, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenues.  other defects caused two fires that took the system offline for two years, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenues.

It was not an isolated incident.