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Winterlike temperatures that pushed into the northern Plains through the middle of this week will continue charging south and east into the weekend. The first push of cold air arrived in the northern Plains on Wednesday into Wednesday night. Temperatures dropped into the single digits from Montana to the Dakotas and into northern Iowa throughout Wednesday night. Cold continued to infiltrate the the country, spreading through the middle Mississippi River Valley and the Midwest. Arctic blast satellite image The NOAA-20 satellite's VIIRS instrument captured this image of a major cold front sweeping across the continental U.S. on November 8, 2019....

While Hurricane Irma hit Florida as a ferocious category 4 storm last month, the sunshine state has withstood much stronger storms in the past. According to new research, category 5 hurricanes may have slammed Florida repeatedly 12,000 years ago, during a climatic shift called The Younger Dryas. While there were hurricane-suppressing cooler sea surface temperatures at the time, these conditions were outweighed by slowed ocean circulation - which plays a powerful role when it comes to generating hurricanes. The study, published in the journal Geology, involved analyzing turbidites: a type of undersea landslide deposit that can provide a record for...

Green Corruption: The Environmental Protection Agency is giving funds to charitable organizations to attack GOP members of Congress. Did you know telling the truth about climate change causes childhood asthma? We have heard the litany of horrors that climate change is said to bring about — retreating glaciers, rising sea levels, drought and flooding, disease and famine. Now we are told that fighting the EPA's power grab to regulate greenhouse gases will lead to an increase in childhood asthma. The American Lung Association, considered one of America's most credible and worthy charities, has placed four billboards in Michigan's 6th Congressional...

On Saturday, March 28, the world was supposed to show its solidarity in fighting global warming by turning off electrical appliances between the hours of 8 and 9 p.m., local time. This did not happen at former vice-president Al Gore’s household, where lights blazed both indoors and out for the entire hour. This failure to participate by the world’s foremost global warming guru stirred consternation among “Greens” around the planet. “It sets a bad example when your leader exempts himself from the demonstration,” said Environmental Defense Fund member, Eve Pureheart. “What will the self-serving enemies of the Earth make of...