"This Is The Beginning": Forest Fires, Deadly Storms, Heatwave Show A Changed Climate 1 and 2
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By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh
Democracy Now
Wednesday, Jul 4, 2012
DemocracyNow.org - The past two weeks have witnessed the worst forest
fires in Colorado history, a deadly Mid-Atlantic storm that left 23 dead
and four million without power, and a record shattering heatwave across
the East Coast and Midwest that has not seen since the Dust Bowl. More
than 2,000 heat records have been broken in the past week. As the words
extreme weather flash across TV screens, where are the other two words:
global warming? We speak to The Guardian's U.S. environment
correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg and Jeff Masters, director of
meteorology at the Weather Underground website. "I think it's important
for the public to hear that what we're seeing now is the future. We're
going to be seeing a lot more weather like this, a lot more impacts like
we're seeing from this series of heat waves, fires and storms," Masters
said. "I think we're missing a big opportunity here, our TV
meteorologists are to educate and tell the population what is likely to
happen. This is just the beginning -- this kind of summer weather we're
having."
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