Climate Central: It's already March, but the country is still recovering from last year's extreme weather and climate events. As the hottest year on record in the U.S., 2012 brought intense drought across the Midwest and Great Plains, record wildfires in the West, and Hurricane Sandy's path of destruction to the East Coast.
But if you thought 2012 was hot, just wait a few years. Within the coming decades, years like 2012 may become simply "average.' And if we keep emitting CO2 at the current rate, it won't be...