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ATLANTA -- A line of quick-moving severe thunderstorms hit the Metro Atlanta area before daybreak Tuesday, blowing trees onto homes and causing widespread power outages.

More than 150 companies including Airbus, Coca-Cola and IKEA pledged on Friday to reduce the carbon burden of their operations in a voluntary pact urging governments to do more to confront climate change. Drugmakers Novartis and Pfizer, mining giants Anglo American and Rio Tinto, and the luxury goods specialist LVMH were among the 153 firms who committed themselves to greater energy efficiency.

Report says sea levels may rise by several meters by 2100. A group of US scientists have warned that a UN panel on climate change underestimated the scale of sea-level increases this century resulting from global warming.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon.

Rising rivers wiped out an Iowa railroad bridge Tuesday, flooded Illinois farmland and forced residents along the Mississippi River to prepare for what could be the worst flooding in 15 years.

Heavy storms continued to wreak havoc from the Midwest to the East Coast on Sunday, forcing evacuations and threatening levees as lakes and rivers swelled.

Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries.

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

The news article is a partial list of wildfires in Ca. Locally, in Lake County, the rainy season ended in mid Feb. It usually goes to mid May. In addition, there have been unusually frequent high winds contributing to drying things out. The air around here looks like a bad day in LA in the late 60s. A rough wildfire season ahead.