News Earth Day 2019: High temperatures, rising waters, wild weather – who is to blame? We are. April 21, 2019 Doyle Rice and Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Comments Off on Earth Day 2019: High temperatures, rising waters, wild weather – who is to blame? We are. Climate change is real and increasingly a part of our daily lives. Here are the latest scientific facts on this human-caused shift to weather systems.