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Atlantic Ocean warming linked to Pacific trade winds

2014-08-10 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: New research has found rapid warming of the Atlantic Ocean, likely caused by global warming, has turbocharged Pacific Equatorial trade winds. Currently the winds are at a level never before seen on observed records, which extend back to the 1860s. The increase in these winds has caused eastern tropical Pacific cooling, amplified the Californian drought, accelerated sea level rise three times faster than the global average in the Western Pacific and has slowed the rise of global average surface...

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Warming of Atlantic Ocean dramatically increased Pacific winds study

2014-08-04 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: The rapid warming of the worlds oceans, caused by climate change, is increasing record-breaking levels of Pacific Equatorial trade winds, new research has found. Scientists from University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Hawaii have shed some light on the forces at work behind Pacific trade wind, which are currently at their highest level ever recorded. These high trade winds have a global impact. They have been blamed for intensifying the severe droughts in California and...

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Wildfires Intensify in Pacific Northwest as Winds Rise

2014-07-18 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: More than two dozen wildfires in Oregon and Washington, sparked by lightning strikes last weekend and spurred by hot, dry conditions and strong winds, are expected to intensify Friday. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and about 1,000 homes have been threatened as more than 300,000 acres burn. "We're going to have another windy day today, so we expect more fire growth, but we're doing the best we can to contain them," says Ken Frederick, a spokesperson with the National Interagency Fire Center...

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Intensifying summer winds could impact sea life off Marin coast

2014-07-13 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Summer winds are intensifying along the Marin Coast and climate change is a likely cause, a new study says. The winds, which blow parallel to the shore and draw cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean to the surface in a process known as "upwelling," have increased over the last 60 years in three out of five regions of the world, including the California Coast according to an analysis published earlier this month in the journal Science. At this point "we don't know what the implications...

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