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Climate Change Influenced 2012's Extreme Weather, Report Finds
2013-09-09 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Man-made climate change contributed to some of 2012's most extreme weather, including the spring and summer heat waves that baked parts of the United States and Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal communities along the eastern coast of the country, according to a new report. The study, which includes research from 18 different teams from around the world, examined 12 extreme weather events from last year and found that human-caused global warming increased the likelihood of half of the incidents,...
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Climate change played a role in half of 2012's extreme weather events study
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: New research released yesterday links human-caused climate change to six of 12 extreme weather events from 2012, including summer heat waves in the United States and storm surges from Superstorm Sandy. Teams of scientists from around the world examined the causes behind extreme weather events on five continents and in the Arctic. Their results were published as a special report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. One of the stronger linkages between global warming and severe...
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Climate Change May Have Impacted Half of 2012's Extreme Weather
2013-09-06 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wired: 2012 was a rough year around the globe, and not for any of the Planet X/Mayan calendar doomsday reasons people feared. Instead, it was a year of extreme weather: drought and heat waves in the United States; record rainfall in the United Kingdom; unusually heavy rains in Kenya, Somalia, Japan, and Australia; drought in Spain; floods in China. And of course there was Superstorm Sandy. One of the first questions asked in the wake of such an extreme weather event is: Is this due to climate change?...
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Summer 2012's Extreme Heat Expected To Repeat Due To Greenhouse Gas
2013-09-06 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Last July was the hottest month in the history of US weather record keeping, but it may not hold that title for long, researchers from Stanford University claim in a recently-published report. According to Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the California institution, and research assistant Martin Scherer, extreme weather is more than four times more likely to occur now than it was during the pre-industrial era. In research that was part of a larger...
Scientists Look Into Reasons For 2012's Dramatic Weather
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Scientists looking back on last year's extreme weather events conclude that human-induced climate change didn't cause any of the events, but appears to have made some of them worse. The results are published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
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