World Resources Institute: Temperatures hit an unseasonably warm 61°F in Washington D.C. earlier this week. The Middle East is blanketed in record rainfall and rare heavy snowfall, ending a nearly decade-long drought. Australia witnessed its hottest day on record this past week, stoking wildfires. And China is experiencing a bitterly cold winter, where temperatures are the lowesttheyve been in almost three decades. Were only two weeks into 2013, and already we are getting a reminder of the extreme year we just emerged from....