Natural Disasters Increase Due to Global Warming But EPA Sluggish - Politics

While greenhouse gases fluctuate naturally, industrial actions have contributed to its rising, which has caused global warming. In 50 years, earth's average temperature has risen at the fastest rate - the 10 hottest years on record are all after 1990.

These gases trap heat from the sun at Earth's surface, reducing the amount of heat radiated back into space. The Bush administration has not given importance to the urgency to curb greenhouse gases, but the recent findings that hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and the melting of the polar ice had been all as a result of the phenomenon have set it thinking.

10 states along with New York City and Washington, D.C. have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA, charging that new standards are not sufficient to contain emissions from power plants. More...