Extreme weather just might encourage us to get our act together on global warming

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What if extreme weather events could be attributed to human-induced climate change with confidence?

Much has been written about our incredible psychological ability to ignore or gloss over the threat of climate change. According to Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, "the gap between what we know...

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