Heat Wave Making More Americans Believers on Climate Change, or ‘Global Warming’ “Global warming” is the colloquial term for what scientists and more knowledgable people call “climate change,” but the nomenclature is only part of the debate when it comes to man-made heating up of the Earth — a situation generally accepted by scientists, and an increasing number of Americans now that the country has been battered [...] Heat Wave Making More Americans Believers on Climate ... [News Source]

Is global warming to blame for record heat? So what's up with the U.S. weather this year, a warm winter, early droughts and a multistate "derecho" windstorm before July? Is global warming cooking our goose with extreme weather events, or not? Well, it's complicated. [News Source]

Worries about drowning come with heat in US as more people may be flocking to water. As heat across a big chunk of the U.S. drives people into pools and lakes to cool off, public health officials are worried about a heightened risk of drowning. [News Source]

Thermometer may rampage near record on Saturday. The heat wave that began more than a week ago already has set several records, including hottest day ever in June (104 degrees) and longest stretch of days over 95 degrees (nine and counting). Saturday may be the wave’s apex, but will it match the record of 106, set in 1918? [News Source]

As piped water dries up, city dwellers turn to carrying water in Zimbabwe. Samukeliso Tshuma, a 33-year old mother of four, lives in one of Bulaway’s teeming high density urban townships, but these days gets her water the same way rural dwellers do – from a borehole well. [News Source]

Extreme weather threatening water supply in Central Kentucky. As temperatures once again soared into the triple digits and the drought continued, the state Energy and Environment Cabinet on Friday announced a water shortage watch for 27 counties, including Fayette and surrounding counties, according to a news release. [News Source]

Heat wave: Midwest plain ‘out of whack’ as records shatter. It's not that the Midwest hasn't been extremely hot before, and it's not that it hasn't been incredibly dry. But it's unusual for a vast swath of the Midwest to be so very hot and so very dry for so very long -- particularly this early in the summer. [News Source]

Navy moves ahead on biofuels despite congressional ire. The Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $420 million effort to build refineries to make competitively-priced biofuels, despite anger in Congress over the price the Navy paid for alternative fuel to test a carrier strike group this month. [News Source]

Carbon tax winners: Clean-energy producers. Politics aside, various industries and some businesses have spent this week bemoaning the introduction of the carbon tax, but the flip side is that entrepreneurs in the renewable energy sector are excited by what the carbon price will bring. [News Source]

Worries about drowning come with heat in US as more people may be flocking to water. As heat across a big chunk of the U.S. drives people into pools and lakes to cool off, public health officials are worried about a heightened risk of drowning. [News Source]

Thermometer may rampage near record on Saturday. The heat wave that began more than a week ago already has set several records, including hottest day ever in June (104 degrees) and longest stretch of days over 95 degrees (nine and counting). Saturday may be the wave’s apex, but will it match the record of 106, set in 1918? [News Source]