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What's Behind the Heat Wave: Climate Change or Weather?
2013-07-01 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The American Southwest is broiling in triple-digit temperatures for the fourth consecutive day as a result of a record-breaking heat wave that is smothering the region. In Death Valley, California, the temperature reached 128° Fahrenheit (53° Celsius) on Sundayjust a few degrees shy of the July 10, 1913, record of 134° Fahrenheit (57° Celsius). The heat wave has also been partly blamed for a wildfire that killed 19 firefighters on Sunday in Yarnell Hill, Arizona. So what's behind the heat...
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