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Yosemite wildfire could worsen as firefighters brace for strong winds
2013-08-25 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Firefighters braced for strong winds that could push a raging wildfire further into the north-west edge of Yosemite national park, threatening thousands of rural homes. The massive blaze was also burning Sunday in the vicinity of two groves of giant sequoias that are unique the region, prompting park employees to take extra precautions of clearing brush and setting sprinklers. The towering trees, which grow only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and are among the largest and oldest...
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California Wildfire Season Likely To Get Worse When Santa Ana Winds Arrive
2013-08-10 07:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: California truly is the Golden State this summer -- golden brown -- and that has fire officials worried heading into the peak of the wildfire season. It's still weeks before the fire-fanning Santa Ana winds usually arrive and already it's been a brutal fire season, with nearly twice as many acres burned statewide from a year ago, including 19,000 scorched this week in a blaze still raging in the mountains 90 miles east of Los Angeles. That fire, burning nearly 30 square miles, was almost half...
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Slight Global Warming May Come From Ozone Winds
2013-08-09 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
redOrbit: Laypeople tend to mix up the ozone hole and global warming. The popular belief is that the hole is a major cause of the worlds increasing average temperature. On the other hand, scientists have long attributed the ozone shortage in the hole to a small cooling trend. A new computer model study, led by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, suggests that there might be a slight warming influence from the ozone hole. The influence is due to the holes effect on winds, however, not temperatures. The...
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Hurricane-force winds tangle Tulsa
2013-07-25 17:00:02| Energy - Topix.net
More than 62,000 customers were still without power on Wednesday evening in the Tulsa area.
Winds of change: challenging the UK publics perception of onshore wind turbines
2013-07-09 13:00:00| Power Technology
Public support for onshore wind in the UK is supposedly at a record high, so why is the government offering financial inducements to persuade communities to host wind farms? Julian Turner reports on the campaign to incentivise wind energy and asks wh
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