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Aug. 12 (UNION-TRIBUNE): Increasing temperatures will transform California, threatening some of its most valuable resources in coming decades. That’s the primary message of a new state publication that summarizes 17 scientific studies examining how global warming is expected to play out in California.

There is a lot of hype about global warming and July being the second-warmest for the United States. According to the government there were more than 2,300 daily high-temperature records set in July around the country.

Although the measure of humans’ impact on global warming isn’t precisely known, scientific evidence makes it abundantly clear that human activity is the main cause of warming over the past several decades (“Heated debate,” Editorial, Thursday).

THE British grouse shooting season, which begins this weekend, is contributing to global warming, an ecology specialist told the latest edition of New Scientist magazine today.

Global temperature rises could mean vineyards in northern Europe — even Maine.