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Common Dreams has a news summary of the various stories about the freaky weather, including this by Bill McKibben in The Guardian ..

For 25 years climatologists have been telling us to expect exactly this kind of weather — such extremes become ever more likely as we warm the planet. It’s not just heat; it’s also drought and flood. Last year the US suffered through more multi-billion-dollar weather disasters than any other year in history. And it’s not just the US — in 2010, the world’s largest insurance company said there was no way to explain the rapid planetary spike in extreme weather except for global warming

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