Remember last winter when blizzards hit Washington D.C. and the East Coast? Climate change deniers had a field day asking, "What global warming?" Now, in the midst of a 100 year heat wave on the East Coast, Stanford University researchers have published a new study concluding that such heat waves in both the Eastern and the Western U.S. will be frighteningly commonplace in future decades -- as much as four to five times more prevalent than in the past.
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