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Severe Weather in the Middle East - Another Result of a Changing Climate?

2013-01-12 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Severe weather is pummeling the Middle East. Latest reports puts the death toll at dozens. Im fresh back from a trip to my family's two homesteads: the USA, where we toured New Jersey's hurricane-battered shoreline, and the UK, where new lakes of rainwater cover Cotswolds' fields and the British Meteorological Office declared the highest annual precipitation since they began keeping records. An exceptional spate of extreme weather events? Or is this climate change? (I'll duck under my keyboard so...

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US study warns of extreme heat, more severe storms

2013-01-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A government report warned the United States could face more frequent severe weather including heat waves and storms for decades to come as temperatures rise far beyond levels being planned for. The draft Third National Climate Assessment, a scientific study legally mandated to advise US policymakers, made few bones that carbon emissions have been causing climate change -- a source of controversy among some lawmakers. "Evidence for climate change abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the...

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Aussie Heatwave Nears 122°F; Severe Fire Threat Declared

2013-01-10 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Australia is bracing for more potentially dangerous fires, with temperatures on Friday predicted to soar close to 50°C, or 122°F, in the center of the continent and up to 46°C (115°F) in parts of heavily populated New South Wales. The return of the scorching heat follows two days of relative cool, during which fire crews tackled more than 100 blazes still burning in New South Wales and Victoria, and built containment lines for more outbreaks. "We are entering a very challenging fire weather...

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