Heatwave that killed thousands linked to pollution

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Heatwave that killed thousands linked to pollution

VICKY COLLINS, Environment Correspondent December 02 2004




Copyright © 2004 Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited. All Rights Reserved
METEOROLOGISTS have for the first time linked climate change to the 2003 heatwave believed to have caused more than 27,000 deaths in Europe.
The Met Office has reported that the temperatures were the highest in the continent for more than 500 years and were highly likely to be connected to human-derived pollution, particularly the use of fossil fuels.
The research, published in Nature magazine, warned that heatwaves, possibly worse than that of 2003, could strike every other year by 2050. The risk has more than doubled

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More evidence we are killing our planet and therefore ourselves!!!

[chookie]

1. Don't expect the people in power to be upset

After all, these ARE the End Times, and the Good Book tells of famine and plague and wars and rumors of war -- maybe the fundie apologetics are rationalizing this as "liberal sin" slowly raising the temperature of the earth to the temperature of HELL!

As Senator Rick Santorum says -- who can predict we will be here in a 100 years?

Besides, in the mean time -- people like Dick Cheney are making a FORTUNE while we destroy our planet for Jesus's return, so, if Armageddon comes or does not come (again), Win/Win for Republicans.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1036358

Thanks!

VolcanoJen
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