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Environment / Global Warming

Why Is Our Weather So Wild?

The evidence increasingly points to global warming as the culprit. And if you think mother nature's shifts from one extreme to another are bad now, brace yourself for the future

From the June 2000 issue; published online June 1, 2000


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