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Europe record hot year at least 35 times more likely by climate change
2014-12-17 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: This year is on track to be the warmest ever recorded in Europe, and greenhouse gas emissions played a major role, according to new research. Scientists have analysed centuries of temperature records to conclude that this years warmth was made at least 35 times more likely because of climate change. In the UK, this years weather included an unusually warm beginning to autumn, with hot sunny days continuing into late October. A team of researchers at Oxford found that the odds of such a warm...
Climate change: global pressure will make Australia do more, says Cameron
2014-12-17 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global pressure will force Australia to do more on climate change, Britains prime minister, David Cameron, has predicted. Cameron told a committee of British MPs in London he sensed the Australian government recognised it did not want to be the international back marker on the issue. Look, its a sovereign country. It has to make its own decisions. There has obviously been a very big debate in Australia about carbon taxes and prices and all the rest of it, Cameron said as he gave evidence...
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SAP System Change Log 12/15/14
2014-12-16 18:30:10| PortlandOnline
Excel Document, 414kbCategory: SAP System Change Log
Climate change could leave cities more in the dark
2014-12-15 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in future storms. Johns Hopkins engineers created a computer model to predict the increasing vulnerability to hurricanes of power grids in major cities on or relatively near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. They factored historic hurricane information in with plausible scenarios for future storm behavior, given...
This doomed Alaskan village shows just how unprepared we are for climate change
2014-12-15 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It`s a Wednesday morning in late August, the first day of classes at the Shishmaref School. The doors of the pale blue building haven`t opened yet, and the new principal is hurriedly buttering toast in the kitchen for the students breakfasts. Teachers are scrambling to make last-minute adjustments to their classrooms, while anxious kids, ranging from pre-K students through high schoolers, wait on the porch, their jackets zipped against the chill of the early-morning air. It`s all so incredibly normal,...
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