EurekAlert: In the coming decades, climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health. Intense rainstorms and floods will become more common, and existing risks to the Great Lakes will be exacerbated.
Those are some of the conclusions contained in the Midwest chapter of a draft report released last week by the federal government that assesses the key impacts of climate change on every region in the country and analyzes......
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Climate change to profoundly affect the Midwest in coming decades
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 18th, 2013
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