je.st
news
Tag: disasters
Half of Weather Disasters Linked to Climate Change
2015-11-05 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: From a deadly snowstorm in Nepal to a heat wave in Argentina that crashed power supplies, at least 14 extreme weather events last year bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists reported Thursday. Researchers examined 28 weather extremes on all seven continents to see if they were influenced by climate change or were just normal weather. Their conclusion: Half of them showed some role of climate change. "We hope that this will help people see...
Tags: change
half
weather
linked
Scientists Have Figured Out Which Natural Disasters We Can Blame on Climate Change
2015-11-05 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: Climate scientists are pretty good at figuring out the causes of long-term trends. We know that dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will make global temperatures rise over time. But pinning down the cause of any single weather event--a specific heat wave, hurricane, or drought--is much more challenging, since extreme things could still happen without global warming. That's why scientists are so reluctant to say that any particular event happened "because of" climate change. Nevertheless,...
Tags: change
natural
climate
scientists
Half million die decade of disasters in Asia Pacific
2015-10-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Asia Pacific region, the most disaster-prone part of the world, suffered 1,625 disasters in the decade through 2014, and needs to spend more on adapting to climate change and preparing for more extreme weather, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The region's disasters - 40 percent of the global total - claimed half a million lives over the decade, affected 1.4 billion people and caused $523 billion in economic damage, the 2015 U.N. Asia-Pacific Disaster Report said. The world body urged...
Scientists discover 41 global warming 'tipping points' that could trigger natural disasters
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: Scientists have discovered 41 global warming tipping points or places that could trigger natural disasters. They believe that these tipping points could cause a domino effect and increase the risk of climate change. A group of scientists has discovered specific places where abrupt changes in temperature could trigger the occurrence of natural disasters. These global warming "tipping points" are not found near any major city, but their contribution to climate change still threatens the planet....
Tags: global
points
natural
discover
Over 20 million affected by El Nio, urgent action needed to reduce impact of disasters
2015-10-02 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: In a year of unprecedented humanitarian need, El Nio is putting tens of millions of people at risk of drought and floods. CARE is scaling up life-saving assistance and urges governments to act now to reduce the impact of the disasters to come. The ongoing crises in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere have caused displacement and humanitarian needs on a scale never before recorded. Yet it is about to get worse. A global weather phenomenon known as El Nio is on its way, and its impact is predicted to...
Tags: of
action
needed
million
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] next »