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Scientists Warn to Expect More Weather Extremes
2015-05-28 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Torrential rains and widespread flooding in Texas have brought relief from a yearslong drought to many parts of the state. Such unpredictable and heavy rains are a big part of what climate scientists say that many Texans can expect in years to come. The relief has come at a great cost. The death toll from storms across the state and Oklahoma has reached at least 19, by some estimates, and the property damage is so extensive that Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has declared some 40 counties disaster areas....
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Study: Americans exposure heat extremes could rise six-fold by mid-century
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Vastly more Americans will be exposed to dangerous heat waves in future decades because of a combination of rising temperatures and rapid population growth in the South and West, scientists warned in a study published Monday. The risk of exposure to extreme heat could be as much as six times higher for the average U.S. citizens by the year 2070, compared with levels experienced in the last century, researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the City University of New York...
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Most Australians view climate change as already causing weather extremes: Ipsos
2015-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: A clear majority of Australians view global warming as already causing extreme weather events such as storms, droughts and floods and just 3 per cent say "there is no such thing as climate change", according to the findings in an Ipsos survey. Just over 60 per cent of the 1063 respondents in the report the eighth annual survey on the subject viewed climate change as behind extreme events, with similar numbers also linking the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef and rising sea levels to warming...
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New Studies Reveal Climate Extremes From Fire to Ice
2015-04-15 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate scientists don't just rely on computer models and contemporary observations to understand the intimate relationship between CO2 in the atmosphere and environmental conditions on Earth. They also look to the ancient past and two reports in recent days have made it clear how intimate that relationship is. One chronicles an episode 2.4 billion years in the past, when the entire planet was covered in a layer of ice hundreds of feet thick, oceans and all, while global average temperatures hovered...
Weakening of summer storm intensifies heat extremes
2015-03-14 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asian News International: A new study has revealed that summer storm weakening leads to more persistent heat extremes. Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggested that storm activity in large parts of the US, Europe and Russia significantly calmed down during summers over the past decades, but this is no good news. The weakening of strong winds associated with the jetstream and weather systems prolongs and hence intensifies heat extremes like the one in Russia in 2010 which caused devastating...
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