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Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Means Scorching US Summers
2013-12-08 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Thirty years of shrinking Arctic sea ice has boosted extreme summer weather, including heat waves and drought, in the United States and elsewhere, according to a study published today (Dec. 8) in the journal Nature Climate Change. The new study -- based on satellite tracking of sea ice, snow cover and weather trends since 1979 -- links the Arctic's warming climate to shifting weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere's midlatitudes. "The results of our new study provide further support and...
Hotter summers mean more health risks in urban heat islands
2013-10-02 15:35:48| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: On hot summer days, 74-year-old HelenRuth Stephens doesn`t dare leave her apartment. Not to get the mail or take out the trash. "You don`t do it because you`ll be breathless by the time you get back," she says. She suffers from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Both affect her lungs. Hot weather drains her energy, she says, and makes it hard for her to breathe. Stephens is the type of person public health officials worry about as they`re preparing for climate change. That`s...
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Ireland set for warmer, drier summers and wetter winters
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Ireland will become a balmier place as a result of climate change but the summertime benefits will come at a cost. The warmer, drier summers will be followed by wetter autumns and winters with floods an almost certainty, according to new climate research released last night. International effortMet Éireann co-ordinated a major international study looking specifically at how climate change would alter the picture here. It draws on its own data sets collected over decades but also on expertise available...
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US shares rise on Summers withdrawal
2013-09-16 17:18:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Shares in the US and elsewhere are boosted by the news that former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn his candidacy to be head of the US central bank.
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Summers pulls out of US Fed race
2013-09-15 23:28:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdraws his candidacy to succeed Ben Bernanke as head of the US central bank, the Federal Reserve.
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