U.S. News and World Report: The director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Climate Change Program said Wednesday that global warming will cause an increase in the number of "miserable days" over the next several years.
William Hohenstein said that the "misery index," a measure of temperature and humidity, will continue to get higher in many parts of the country, especially the southwest. He said the number of days with temperatures above100 degrees will increase. With it, farmers might face increasingly difficult...