Daily Press: Do the roads and stores seem more crowded to you around Hampton Roads this year? Does it seem the weather is getting warmer? Are the two related? Yes. Last year the U.S. population topped 300 million, just 39 years after surpassing the 200 million mark. During those four decades Earth’s population doubled, increasing from 3 billion to over 6 billion. It is no coincidence that the rate of glacial melting in Greenland also doubled over the last decade; rapid global warming traces …