Climate Legislation Before the August Recess?
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Global Warming News of Note: Hotter Seasons and Redwood Studies
A new study out from Stanford University shows that the U.S. will experience more frequent and severe heat waves over the next 30 years.
The study "used a series of computer models of climate to calculate changes in the future with increased levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere....They calculate that within 30 years average temperature could be 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 Celsius, higher than in the mid-1800s."
Meanwhile, another global warming study is aimed at California's Redwood trees. A team is studying "how the trees respond to changes in temperature and rainfall, along with a reduction in fog, a trend that already is under way."
Said one scientist: "These trees have seen climate change before. But they haven't seen it the way they are seeing it now."