Record Heat

Weather Is 'Stunning' Evidence Of Global Warming

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.09.2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records weren't just broken, they were deep-f...

The Record Summer of 2011: You Haven't Seen Anything Yet

David Kroodsma | Posted 11.21.2011

David Kroodsma

2011-09-21-Screenshot20110921at5.28.21PM.jpg Summers of the future are likely to make this year look mild by comparison.

Record Heat In NYC, Outages Reported

Posted 09.21.2011

Feel like it's never been hotter than this? You're right, in a way. This national heat wave has pushed temperatures up to to 102 in Central Park Frida...

The Precautionary Principle

Edward Flattau | Posted 05.25.2011

Edward Flattau

Every Republican running for the U.S. Senate in November believes either that human activity is not the driving force behind global warming or that the planet isn't even heating up, according to a recent survey.

Summer 2010 Hottest On Record, New Data Suggest

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 05.25.2011

ALBANY, N.Y. — New numbers confirm what the sweaty brows of Northeasterners have been saying for months: The summer of 2010 was a record-breakin...

PHOTOS: Total Scorchers -- 9 Nations That Broke Heat Records This Summer

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

2010 has been dominated by extreme natural phenomena, becoming known as the year of 'global weirding.' Heat waves are just one of the many dramatic f...

17 Nations Beat or Equal All-Time Heat Records This Summer So Far

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

If Russia's current heatwave being the worst in 1000 years and doubling the daily death rate in Moscow wasn't enough, check out this sweaty stat: Acco...

Europe Suffers Massive Heat Wave

AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 05.25.2011

MOSCOW — It's so hot that women in bikinis are sunbathing in Moscow. A heat wave across much of Europe also is causing crops to wither, forest ...