7.28.2006
California Heatwave Death Toll at 132....and Rising
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Who can recall when California's Central Valley was as hot as...Mesopotamia?
A Berkeley professor of the Sumerian Language and Mythology (Dr. Kikawada) once compared Sumer to "Bakersfield" just a little bit hotter.
Now it has reached that level?
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