Climate Change Hits Home - Heat Waves

Climate Change Hits Home - Heat Waves

In this week's climate change story Americans, especially in the Midwest, are feeling the heat as temperatures rise to record-breaking levels. Nine of the 10 hottest years on record have happened since 1997, and scientists say if heat-trapping pollution isn't stopped these unbearable temperatures could become the norm.

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Climate Change Hits Home

Stories of climate change impacts on the developing world are buzzing in the US media. But the climate is changing in America too, even if not as loudly proclaimed. Link TV's new weekly mini-series "Climate Change Hits Home" illustrates that the impact of climate change is not just a foreign problem.
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