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Even with no El Nino, 2014 warmest year on record
2015-01-18 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It was no surprise, but on Friday both NASA and NOAA announced that last year-2014-was the warmest on record. The year bested out both previous record holders, 2005 and 2010. According to NOAA, 2014 was 0.69 degrees Celsius (1.24 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th century average. The Earth is warming rapidly due to greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas, but also from deforestation and industrialized agriculture. In just over a hundred years, the planet...
El Nino likely to head to an end over spring: Japan weather bureau
2015-01-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan's weather bureau said on Friday the El Nino weather pattern, often linked to both heavy rainfall and drought, is continuing but added that the phenomena could end over spring. The Japan Meteorological Agency forecast said the El Nino, which emerged during last summer for the first time in five years, was already starting to ease. The El Nino weather pattern - a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific - can trigger drought in Southeast Asia and Australia, and floods in South...
Parts of Pacific Ocean close to El Nino thresholds: Australia weather bureau
2014-12-16 05:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific Ocean have exceeded El Nino thresholds for several weeks and there is a greater than 70 percent chance of the weather pattern emerging, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The BOM had earlier projected at least a 70 percent chance of El Nino arriving by February 2015. The weather event occurs every four to 12 years and can trigger drought in some parts of the world while causing flooding in others. "Typically, after the ocean...
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Farmers face water restrictions as El Nino develops
2014-12-03 04:03:12| Food - Topix.net
New Zealand farmers are facing summer water restrictions in some regions as an El Nino weather pattern develops, hitting dairy farmers already feeling the effects of plunging milk prices. An El Nino pattern that leads to dry conditions on the east coast of the North and South Islands may be imminent, according to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
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Taiwan's real estate market sees El Nino effect
2014-09-08 03:24:29| Real Estate - Topix.net
The El Nino phenomenon has impacted Taiwan's real estate market this summer, as housing sales underperformed in Tamsui District and Keelung City, while sales picked up in Jiaosi, Yilan County, said Shih Shuan-chieh , the chief editor of My Housing magazine . Tamsui District, a coastal district frequented by tourists in New Taipei City, tends to attract more buyers, many of whom are from out of town, in the summertime.
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