Everyone has heard — especially after last summer — how human use of fossil fuels to produce energy will increase the frequency and severity of killer heat waves. (cato.org)
US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase. (climatenewsnetwork.net)
A U.N. panel of climate scientists predicts that a build - up of planet - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, mainly from human use of fossil fuels, will cause ever more droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels. (scientificamerican.com)