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United Kingdom: Why our turbulent weather is getting even harder to predict

2013-04-07 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Britain's weather excelled itself last week. It produced an Easter Sunday that was the coldest on record in the UK. Temperatures stuck below zero in many regions; freezing conditions continued to disrupt transport; and experts warned of increasing threats to animals and birds already struggling to survive loss of habitat and climate change. The start of British Summer Time last Sunday night was marked in Braemar by temperatures that fell to -11C. For good measure, an unappetising April looks likely...

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New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades

2013-04-01 01:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening," or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 50 percent over the next few decades. The researchers also show that this dramatic greening will accelerate climate warming at a rate greater than previously expected. "Such widespread redistribution of Arctic vegetation...

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Ocean Heat Can Predict Malaria Outbreaks in India

2013-03-10 13:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: Health officials may have a new way to anticipate malaria epidemics in north-west India. All they have to do is check the sea surface temperatures in the tropical south Atlantic, off the coast of western Africa. If the water is colder than normal in July, then prepare for an epidemic of the Anopheles mosquito and its little Plasmodium parasite four months later in Kutch and the Thar Desert of India. Research shows if the water is colder than normal in July, then prepare for an epidemic of the...

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Industrial Internet Solution Helps Utilities Predict and Prevent Electrical Grid Outages

2013-02-27 04:59:00| Transmission & Distribution World

Grid IQ Insight, a new power management system from GE Digital Energys Industrial Internet portfolio, is a platform that consolidates data from a broad mix of sources including existing grid management systems, smart meters and other intelligent grid power equipment, sensors, weather monitoring and even unstructured social media content from sources like Facebook or Twitter.

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