Democracy Now! July 3, 2012

July 03, 2012 from Democracy Now! via Creative Commons License BY-NC-ND

The past two weeks have witnessed the worst forest fires in Colorado history, a deadly Mid-Atlantic storm, and a record-shattering heatwave on the East Coast. Democracy Now! discusses how these extreme events fit into the model of changing weather patterns long predicted by climate change scientists. And delegates from 190 countries have gathered at the United Nations to begin talks on the first-ever global agreement regulating the arms trade. Plus headlines, and more.

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Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Cli... Explore this topic

Extreme weather

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution: Extreme wea... Explore this topic

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, initially created by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. The agency's primary purpose is to coordinat... Explore this topic

Public sector

The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector or the government sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, ownership, sale, provision, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether nat... Explore this topic

Wildfire

Pożary są jednym ze zjawisk zachodzących w lasach. Z punktu widzenia gospodarki leśnej zaliczane są do najpoważniejszych niebezpieczeństw zagrażających lasom. Corocznie na świecie notuje się blisko 2000 pożarów. Pożary lasów dzieli się na następujące kategorie: ⁕pożary ziemne ... Explore this topic

Heat wave

A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity. While definitions vary, a heat wave is measured relative to the usual weather in the area and relative to normal temperatures for the season. Temperatures that people from ... Explore this topic

Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist and author. His books include: Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, a survey of the rise of the prison industrial complex from the Nixon through Reagan Eras and into the present; The Soft Cage: Sur... Explore this topic

Tropical cyclone

The Tropical Cyclone type holds all hurricanes, typhoons, tropical storms and other 'warm core' storm systems. A tropical cyclone is a storm system fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in... Explore this topic

United States Environmental Protection Agency

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA was proposed by Preside... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The lower forty-eight contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in central North America between Canada... Explore this topic

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