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Australia forecasts hotter climate, longer bushfire season
2014-03-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Climate change has been blamed to play a crucial role in the summer's heat wave. The Australian report released on March 4 suggested the country will experience a longer bushfire season caused by the continual rising of greenhouse gases. This means a hotter weather with increased risks of extreme fire in bushlands. Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) released a study supporting the impact of climate change recently affecting...
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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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UK: Private equity firm snaps up footwear maker Hotter
2014-01-20 15:48:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Comfort foortwear firm Hotter, which claims to be the UK's largest shoe manufacturer, has been acquired by private equity firm Electra Private Equity in a deal rumoured to be worth GBP200m (US$328.5m).
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Australians to expect longer, hotter heat wave; Adelaide set to become world's hottest city
2014-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Adelaide has become the hottest city in the world with a temperature of 46 degrees Celsius caused by Australia's record-breaking heat wave. According to a report by the Climate Council, heat waves in the country will be hotter, longer and more frequent. The Climate Council's full report is set to be released in February but the organisation revealed its findings based on a study of heat waves in Australia between 1971 and 2008. The council points to climate change as the main factor behind...
Australian heatwaves getting hotter and longer, says Climate Council
2014-01-15 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Heatwaves in Australia are becoming more frequent, are increasing in intensity and are lasting longer, according to an interim report by the Climate Council. The report, which will be released in full in February, finds that climate change is having a key influence on a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971 and 2008. South-eastern Australia has baked in extreme temperatures this week, with...
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