http://www.radio4all.net/program/61469Podcast for Program: Fiddling While the Planet BurnsSat, 14 Jul 2012 18:30:03 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/61469June temperatures in the United States were the 14th warmest on record. A searing heat wave toward the end of the month broke or tied over 170 records in cities across America. 56 percent of the continental U.S. is now under drought conditions, with 1.3 million acres destroyed by wildfires - a tinderbox. At month's end, tropical storm Debby dumped record-breaking rainfall on Florida, while a severe storm cut a 600-mile swath from Illinois to Virginia, knocking out power for 3.4 million households. And that's just for June. The last twelve months were the warmest since record keeping began in 1895. A recent article published by the American Meteorological Society makes an explicit link between documented extreme weather events in 2011 and climate change. Meanwhile, back in the US Congress, Senator Jim Inhofe took the podium on Wednesday to denounce global warming as a hoax, again. With Mark Hertsgaard, independent journalist and author of "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth." Sounds Of Dissent radioSat, 14 Jul 2012 18:30:03 +0000