Heat Wave, Cato, and Big Coal
Satellite photo of fires on Earth
2006 July 26
Homeless Dying with No Escape from Record Heat
July 27
In Phoenix, Arizona, where the temperature regularly tops 100 …
California struggles with heat wave
July 26, 2006
56 possible heat-related deaths reported in California
Power Outage Sends Guard to St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Jul. 20, 2006
The heat wave has been blamed for at least 18 deaths across the
country in the last week.
Europe’s Heat Wave Claims Five More Lives
July 18, 2006
Utilities Pay Scientist Ally on Warming
Coal-burning utilities are contributing money to one of the few
remaining climate scientists openly critical of the broad consensus
that fossil fuel emissions are intensifying global warming. The
critic, Patrick J. Michaels, is a professor of environmental sciences
at the University of Virginia, a senior fellow at the libertarian
Cato Institute and Virginia’s state climatologist.