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Note: The following text is a quote: American Forces Press Service Navy Task Force Assesses Changing Climate Special to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 31, 2009 – Rapidly diminishing sea ice, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, increased storm severity -- all are possible consequences of a climate that mounting evidence suggests is changing significantly. As the scientific community works to understand the changing climate, the chief of naval operations has created a task force, headed by Rear Adm. David Titley, the Navy's senior oceanographer, to better understand and evaluate its implications for maritime security. “Task Force Climate Change was...

Due to demand, US farmers are growing more corn than they have since WWII. Now, researchers are looking at all those green fields and their possible effect on local weather patterns. Fred Bumb has been growing corn for nearly 60 years in the bottomlands of Vanderburgh County. Bumb credits good weather with this year's strong crop, "There's so many things about farming that you have to depend on, such as the good lord and the weather." How the weather affects crops is obvious, but new research from a Canadian climatologist shows the opposite may also be true. The explosive growth...