(Los Angeles) Hot, muggy weather is gripping the Southland, but brave runners are still taking on the Disneyland half-marathon. Dave Mecham reports.
(Los Angeles) Hot, muggy weather is gripping the Southland, but brave runners are still taking on the Disneyland half-marathon. Dave Mecham reports.
Hundreds of people packed a Fresno catholic church today where U.S. Army Corporal Nathan Hubbard was honored. He died last week in a helicopter crash in Iraq and is the second son from the Hubbard family to be killed while serving in Iraq. (Aug. 31)
Global warming
Global average air temperature near Earth's surface rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations,"[1] which leads to warming of the surface and lower atmosphere by increasing the greenhouse effect. Other phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes have probably had a warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950, but a cooling effect since 1950.[1] These conclusions have been endorsed by at least 20 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the G8 states. Some scientists disagree with parts of this conclusion as does the American Association of Petroleum Geologists,[2] but no other scientific societies disagree.
