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Australia fights hundreds of fires, heat
2013-01-12 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Firefighters battled roaring blazes in extreme hot weather Saturday as hundreds of wildfires blackened parts of southeastern Australia, officials said. The danger was said to be serious in Victoria and Tasmania but New South Wales has so far had the worst of the fires, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported. Firefighters worked through the night to combat more than 100 bush fires in that state as hot, gusty conditions are forecast for Sunday. More than 100 firefighters were working a...
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Climate change report: Seas rising, heat waves ahead
2013-01-11 23:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Climate change is already affecting how Americans live and work, and evidence is mounting that the burning of fossil fuels has roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat waves, the Obama administration said Friday. "Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glacier and Arctic Sea ice are melting," says a draft of the third federal Climate Assessment Report, compiled by more than 240 scientists for a federal advisory committee. "These changes are part of the pattern of global...
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Wildfires across Australia and the US's hottest year on record: the heat that's making history
2013-01-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Confused? You have every right to be. On just one day this week, it was reported that the heatwave that has lit wildfires across Australia is so unprecedented that two new colours have had to be added to weather forecasting maps; that 2012 had been by far the hottest year on record in the United States; that the blue-chip World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the world's most urgent dangers; and that, nevertheless, the Met Office had concluded that global warming had stalled....
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Roads melt, gas evaporates in Australia's unprecedented heat wave
2013-01-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Australia has been experiencing a record setting heat wave. Melissa Block speaks with Dr. Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre in Australia, about why this is happening, and how Australians are coping. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: All over Australia - Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney, Wagga Wagga - it's been an extremely hot summer and it's expected to get hotter. The continent is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave. Roads have melted...
Epic heat, wildfires are scorching Australian landscape
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: An exceptional heat wave and associated spate of wildfires have scorched the Australian landscape during the past two weeks, with Monday ranking as Australia's hottest day on record. According to the Associated Press and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the national average temperature on Monday was a sizzling 104.6°F. That eclipsed the previous mark of 104.3°F set in 1972. Temperatures were so hot this week that BOM meteorologists had to add two new colors to their weather maps, with...
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