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Australia PM: Climate Change Not Causing Wildfires
2013-10-25 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season. "That is complete hogwash," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told News Corp. Australian newspapers in an interview published on Friday. "They are desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause," he said, referring to people who link the fires to global warming and who criticize his government's...
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We could detect wildfires faster by using satellites
2013-10-24 00:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Rim Fire, one of the biggest blazes in California`s history, came to officials` attention only after somebody noticed a column of smoke. At a time when satellite technology is so powerful and pervasive that you can check your gutters for leaf litter using Google Earth, why are we still relying on human eyes to detect wildfires? That`s what a team of researchers from California and Wisconsin would like to know. Writing in the journal Remote Sensing, they describe a satellite-based system...
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Berkeley scientists devise satellite-based early warning system for wildfires
2013-10-23 22:25:19| Extremetech
As human civilization continues to creep into what was once remote wilderness, the impact of wildfires is becoming more severe. The solution may be a satellite-based early warning system called FUEGO (Spanish for fire) being developed at UC Berkeley.
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Australia, UN spar over wildfires & climate change
2013-10-23 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's prime minister accused the U.N.'s climate change chief on Wednesday of "talking through her hat" when she drew a link between wildfires raging in his country and global warming. Firefighters were battling about 60 fires burning across New South Wales state, with strong winds fanning blazes in the Blue Mountains, a major commuter area of small towns west of Sydney. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N.'s Bonn-based Climate Change Secretariat, told CNN earlier this week that there...
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Why Australia's wildfires are so bad
2013-10-23 16:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A dry, warm winter set the stage for dozens of wildfires currently threatening populated areas in New South Wales, Australia. The fires have destroyed hundreds of homes and sent smoke and ash into the air over Sydney. The region, which is now entering summer, also experienced hundreds of fires this January during a catastrophic heat wave. The past three months have been among the driest 10 percent on record in New South Wales (NSW), said Todd Lane, a meteorologist at the University of Melbourne....
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