USA Today: Killer heat waves caused by climate change could become much more common in the United States over the next 30 years, a two-year study by scientists at Purdue University finds. Heat waves could become five times as likely between 2020 and 2029 in the western and central United States as they were from 1951-1999. The 2030s would be even hotter -- most of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico might experience at least seven summer seasons as intense as the hottest summers ever recorded ......
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US could experience many more heat waves in next 30 years
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2010
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