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Human activities trigger extreme weather?

2013-02-26 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

United Press International: Man-made climate changes could be responsible for severe regional weather extremes in recent years, German researchers say. Significant weather events such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in Russia 2010 coinciding with the unprecedented Pakistan flood could have a common physical cause, scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said. Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they suggest human-caused climate change...

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KGW.com: Portland Police Activities League may close, 2/13/13

2013-02-13 22:30:41| PortlandOnline

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Warming Effect of Urban Activities Felt Widely

2013-02-11 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: You dont have to live in a city or even near one for urban activities to affect your weather, according to a new study. Researchers using a computer model of the atmosphere found that activities from urban areas can warm the air as far as 1,000 miles away. In some areas, that increase was as much as 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperature changes were caused by human behavior in cities, like heating buildings and powering vehicles, rather than natural heat that was captured...

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