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Nighttime Heat Waves in Pacific Northwest Quadruple over Last 30 Years
2013-07-20 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The heat is turning up in the Pacific Northwest. Washington and Oregon have been documented undergoing a marked rise in nighttime heat waves. Nighttime heat waves -- defined by a three-day period where the daily low temperature is in the top one percent of highest temperatures recorded -- have more than quadrupled in the last 30 years, according to researchers at the University of Washington. According to the researchers, the region west of the Cascades saw only three nighttime heat waves between...
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Are the East Coast heat waves related to global warming?
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: The heat wave gripping much of the East Coast and Midwest has people wondering: Could this scorching weather have any link to global warming? Experts say it's hard to connect any single event with long-term trends. Still, heat waves "are expected to happen more often in the future," said Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center. "As the average temperature increases, these types of events become more frequent." The current heat wave is somewhat unusual in that it is...
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Hotter Nights in Northwest as Heat Waves Rise in the Region
2013-07-20 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: In Western Oregon and Washington, the number of heat waves at night is rising, a new study found. Researchers said that people living in these regions must consider buying a fan or an air conditioner as temperatures might soar in the last week of July. Night-time heat waves occur when the low temperature of the day falls within one percent of the record temperature for at least three consecutive nights. In July 2009, a heat wave in Seattle broke temperature records dating back to 1891. This...
Deadly Heat Waves Intensify as Summers Sizzle (Op-Ed)
2013-06-10 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo!News: No one ever should die from heat. But every year, about 650 Americans do -- a death toll greater than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and lightning combined. And, in a deadly harbinger of what is worse to come, a new study shows that heat deaths are on the rise. An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released this week reported that between June 30 and July 13 of last year -- the hottest year on record -- excessive heat killed 32 people in four states: Maryland, Ohio,...
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Killer Heat Waves and Floods Linked to Climate Change
2013-02-27 03:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Killer heat waves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals. Scientists in Germany say they have found how greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are helping to trap the jet stream, resulting in extraordinary weather such as the 2010 Pakistan flood and the 2011 heat wave in the United States. Human-driven climate change repeatedly disturbs the flow of atmospheric waves around the globe`s Northern hemisphere, said lead author Vladimir Petoukhov of...
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