Hank brings you the SciShow news of the week. Recent record high temperatures and other extreme weather events around the world are climate change in action; a new fossil of an ancient human ancestor; some disturbing discoveries about so-called “bog bodies;” and a correction of an error we made about the Kelvin scale in our episode about absolute zero.
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CITATIONS
http://www.weather.com/news/noaa-hottest-year-june-20120709
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/post/is-it-safe-to-blame-global-warming/2012/07/06/gJQAfsn3RW_blog.html
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
http://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2012-07/uotw-nas070612.php
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440312001501
