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Posted: 8/23/2012 6:53:30 AM EST
This Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo shows poor quality corn harvested from a field in the village of Trstenica, some 40 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia. This year, farmers all over the Balkans are turning to God for help. After the harshest winter in decades, the Balkans in the southeast of Europe is now facing its hottest summer and the worst drought in what officials across the region say is nearly 40 years. The record-setting average temperatures _ which scientists say have been steadily rising over the past years as the result of the global warming _ have ravaged crops, vegetable, fruit and power production in the region which is already badly hit by the global economic crisis. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Posted: 8/23/2012 6:53:30 AM EST
This Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 photo shows poor quality corn harvested from a field in the village of Trstenica, some 40 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia. This year, farmers all over the Balkans are turning to God for help. After the harshest winter in decades, the Balkans in the southeast of Europe is now facing its hottest summer and the worst drought in what officials across the region say is nearly 40 years. The record-setting average temperatures _ which scientists say have been steadily rising over the past years as the result of the global warming _ have ravaged crops, vegetable, fruit and power production in the region which is already badly hit by the global economic crisis. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Posted: 7/10/2012 4:58:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, pedestrians use an elevated makeshift walkway to avoid the floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that? Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, according to new analyses released Tuesday, July 10, 2012. It found no sign that climate change played a role in that event, noting that the amount of rainfall was not very unusual. The scale of the flooding was influenced more by factors like reservoir operation policies, researchers wrote. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Posted: 7/10/2012 4:58:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 file photo, pedestrians use an elevated makeshift walkway to avoid the floodwaters in Bangkok, Thailand. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that? Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, according to new analyses released Tuesday, July 10, 2012. It found no sign that climate change played a role in that event, noting that the amount of rainfall was not very unusual. The scale of the flooding was influenced more by factors like reservoir operation policies, researchers wrote. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Posted: 7/10/2012 4:58:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. A combination of the long periods of 100-plus degree days and the lack of rain in the drought-stricken region has dried up the lake that once spanned over 5400 acres. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that? Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, according to new analyses released Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Researchers calculated that global warming has made such a Texas heat wave about 20 times more likely to happen during a La Nina year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Posted: 7/10/2012 4:58:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Texas State Park police officer Thomas Bigham walks across the cracked lake bed of O.C. Fisher Lake in San Angelo, Texas. A combination of the long periods of 100-plus degree days and the lack of rain in the drought-stricken region has dried up the lake that once spanned over 5400 acres. The year 2011 brought a record heat wave to Texas, massive floods in Bangkok and an unusually warm November in England. How much has global warming boosted the chances of events like that? Quite a lot in Texas and England, but apparently not at all in Bangkok, according to new analyses released Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Researchers calculated that global warming has made such a Texas heat wave about 20 times more likely to happen during a La Nina year. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 2:50:47 PM EST
In this image released by NOAA, Chris Carparelli, adjusts a glass flask that line the walls of an air sample processing room at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Researchers at the lab measure the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in air sent in weekly from sites that are part of an international cooperative air sampling network. The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollution. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn't quite a surprise, because it's been rising at an accelerating pace, having years ago blown by the 350 mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon dioxide. So far only the Arctic has reached that 400 level, but the rest of the world will soon follow. (AP Photo/NOAA, Will von Dauster)
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Posted: 5/31/2012 2:50:47 PM EST
In this image released by NOAA, Chris Carparelli, adjusts a glass flask that line the walls of an air sample processing room at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Researchers at the lab measure the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in air sent in weekly from sites that are part of an international cooperative air sampling network. The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollution. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The number isn't quite a surprise, because it's been rising at an accelerating pace, having years ago blown by the 350 mark that many scientists say is the highest safe level for carbon dioxide. So far only the Arctic has reached that 400 level, but the rest of the world will soon follow. (AP Photo/NOAA, Will von Dauster)
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Posted: 5/24/2012 7:05:47 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Butterfly Conservation shows a brown Argus butterfly. Global warming is rescuing the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science published on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Butterfly Conservation, Keith Warmington)
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Posted: 5/24/2012 7:05:47 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Butterfly Conservation shows a brown Argus butterfly. Global warming is rescuing the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science published on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Butterfly Conservation, Keith Warmington)
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Posted: 5/24/2012 7:05:46 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Butterfly Conservation shows a brown Argus butterfly. Global warming is rescuing the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science published on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Butterfly Conservation, Keith Warmington)
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Posted: 5/24/2012 7:05:46 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Butterfly Conservation shows a brown Argus butterfly. Global warming is rescuing the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science published on Thursday, May 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Butterfly Conservation, Keith Warmington)
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Posted: 4/12/2012 2:40:48 AM EST
FILE - This June 21, 2010, file photo, shows a Pacific oyster ready to be harvested at low tide near Olympia, Wash. Scientists blame higher levels of carbon dioxide in Pacific Ocean waters caused by man-made global warming for the failure of oysters to produce young at an Oregon hatchery. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Posted: 4/12/2012 2:40:48 AM EST
FILE- In this Dec. 6, 2011, file, photo, owner Kevin Lunny holds a Pacific oyster at the Drake's Bay Oyster Co. in Point Reyes National Seashore, Calif. Scientists blame higher levels of carbon dioxide in Pacific Ocean waters caused by man-made global warming for the failure of oysters to produce young at an Oregon hatchery. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2012 10:30:48 PM EST
Joe Perry, from left, Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer, and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, speak at the Aerosmith news conference announcing the 2012 Global Warming Tour, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at The Grove in Los Angeles. The Global Warming Tour will play 18 markets beginning on June 16, 2012, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Katy Winn)
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Posted: 3/28/2012 10:30:45 PM EST
Steven Tyler, from left, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry, and Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, pose for pictures at the Aerosmith news conference announcing the 2012 Global Warming Tour, Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at The Grove, in Los Angeles. The Global Warming Tour will play 18 markets beginning on June 16, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Katy Winn)
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Posted: 3/28/2012 7:48:49 PM EST
Joe Perry (L-R), Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer, and Tom Hamilton of the band Aerosmith answer questions during an announcement of their Global Warming Tour in Los Angeles on March 28, 2012. REUTERS/Phil McCarten
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Posted: 3/28/2012 5:55:47 PM EST
FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, people enjoy the warm weather near the Washington Monument in Washington. Extreme storms, droughts and heat waves are getting so much worse because global warming that the world has to prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disaster, an international panel of experts says. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2012 5:55:47 PM EST
FILE - In this July 18, 2008 file photo, newly built houses made of light materials for Cyclone Nagris victimsare reflected in the water in this file photo of July 18, 2008 in an area outside of Yangon, Myanmar. Extreme storms, droughts and heat waves are getting so much worse because global warming that the world has to prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disaster, an international panel of experts says. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 3/28/2012 5:55:47 PM EST
FILE - This Nov. 24, 2007 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, shows an aerial view of shows temporary shelters and damage to a village and infrastructure following Cyclone Sidr, which swept into southern Bangladesh Nov. 15, as seen from a U.S.Marine Corps aid helicopter. Extreme storms, droughts and heat waves are getting so much worse because global warming that the world has to prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disaster, an international panel of experts says. (AP Photo/Navy-Marine Corps, Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe, File)
