<![CDATA[io9: Western Us]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Western Us]]> http://io9.com/tag/western us http://io9.com/tag/western us <![CDATA[Western U.S. Cooked by Climate Change Sooner than the Rest of the World]]> Over the past five years, the western United States endured temperature increases that caused droughts, deadly heat waves, mass death of trees, and insect infestations. Now a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization demonstrates why: the U.S. West has experienced an average temperature increase that is 70 percent greater than the world as a whole. The warming is directly related to greenhouse gas emissions. More »
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