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Curvy Jet Stream Creates Winter Weather Extremes in North America
2014-04-16 18:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Last winter was a rough one for many North Americans, with polar vortexes bringing Arctic temperatures as far south as Florida. Meanwhile, residents on the continent's west enjoyed a relatively mild winter. According to new research this weather pattern, brought on by a "curvy" jet stream, has become more pronounced in the last 4,000 years and may become more so as the climate gets warmer. Writing in the journal Nature Communications, a team of scientists including University of Utah geochemist...
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Gaia visionary advocates city living to sit out worst extremes of climate change
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: People should give up on the English dream of a house and garden in the countryside and retreat into mega-cities to sit out the worst extremes of climate change, environmental guru James Lovelock said yesterday. Dr Lovelock, famed for his Gaia theory of the Earth as a self-regulating organism, says humanity should take inspiration from termites who build giant nests with air-conditioning towers to regulate the temperature. He cited Singapore as an example of a place where people had found a...
Weather extremes 'consistent' with man-made climate change: UN
2014-03-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The Philippines' devastating Typhoon Haiyan and drought in Australia are among recent weather extremes consistent with man-made climate change, the UN's weather agency said Monday. "Many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human-induced climate change," Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the World Meterological Organization (WMO), said as he released his agency's annual climate report. "We saw heavier precipitation, more intense heat, and...
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Hotter Extremes Belie Warming 'Pause'
2014-03-02 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: If global warming has paused, nobody told the thermometer. Although global average temperature rises have not kept pace with greenhouse gas emissions in the last decade, the mercury has been higher than ever for longer than ever over increasingly larger areas of land, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change. Sonia Seneviratne from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and colleagues in Australia and Canada chose not to look at averages but at extremes of temperature. The...
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Heat extremes increase despite global warming hiatus: scientists
2014-02-26 09:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hot weather extremes have increased around the world in the past 15 years despite a slowdown in the overall pace of global warming, a study showed on Wednesday. Heat extremes are among the damaging impacts of climate change as they can raise death rates, especially among the elderly, damage food crops and strain everything from water to energy supplies. "Observational data show a continued increase of hot extremes over land during the so-called global warming hiatus," scientists in Switzerland,...
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