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June 27, 2009

USDA to revise map showing rising temps in U.S.

My fellow Sun blogger Susan Reimer has an entry today on Garden Variety about a map that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has put together on rising U.S. temperatures.

USDA plans to revise the map, divided into zones, that show temperatures rising across the country. It should be ready by fall. But you can see an interactive version of the existing map on the Arbor Day Foundation Web site now. It show changes in temperatures from 1990 to 2006.

A coincidence that news of an update comes around the same time the House passes a major energy bill with a cap-and-trade plan to control emissions of climate warming gasses?

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Meredith Cohn has been a reporter for more than 18 years and has covered a variety of subjects, from airlines and agriculture to politics and health and fitness. She's gained an appreciation for the environment as a biker, runner and dog walker. She also hopes this blog means coworkers will stop staring when she carries home recyclables from the office.

Tim Wheeler reports on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, he has focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, he's crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. He loves seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. He hopes to share some here.

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