A Summer of Extreme Weather

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new york city, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) September 1, 2011 -- Hurricane Irene caps a summer filled with unprecedented extreme weather events and ominous news about the climate, from historic dust bowls sweeping across America to revelations that a mass extinction unprecedented in human history is well under way. Yet, as with most of these events, if you followed the mass media’s coverage of Hurricane Irene you probably heard very little about global warming, except from right-wing propagandists railing against the very idea of it.

As a New Yorker I was spared the worst. My neighborhood experienced little damage, and my family and I even drove into Manhattan with little difficulty to get dinner. But many others weren’t so lucky. Just ask the people of Vermont how things went. According to Gov. Peter Shumlin, “We’re experiencing flooding now in many areas of Vermont that is unprecedented in record keeping.” The storm wiped out bridges that had been up for hundreds of years and survived the Great Flood of 1927, flooding and eating away at buildings that are well over 100 years old.

The connection to climate change is clear, says Shumlin, one of the few officials in America who runs a climate cabinet: “We didn’t used to get weather patterns like this in Vermont. We didn’t get tropical storms. We didn’t get flash flooding… Our storm patterns weren’t like Costa Rica; they were like Vermont."...

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