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Climate change to bring more drought, wildfires to region, expert warns
2013-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fox 5: Political leaders around San Diego will have to prepare for multiple climate change impacts in the future, beyond the expected rising sea levels, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography told members of the San Diego City Councils Natural Resources and Culture Committee. Among the impacts outlined by Professor Ralph Keeling Wednesday were a higher demand for water due to warmer temperatures, a mountain snowpack that melts faster, greater numbers of wildfires and migration of animal...
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How wildfires are threatening the West
2013-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Rolling Stone: It was the sound of her neighbors' propane tanks exploding that convinced Nancy Myers she had run out of time. Twenty minutes earlier, the 57-year-old potter had been standing with some friends on a rock-strewn hillside above the village of Yarnell, Arizona, on a hot Sunday afternoon, watching the red coil of flames unspool in the distance, certain that everything was going to be OK despite the "prepare to evacuate" order issued by the county sheriff's office earlier that day. "Then the storm came...
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Recent Devastating Wildfires Could Be Result Of Climate Change
2013-08-02 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: The larger, more destructive wildfires devastating some regions of the western US could be fueled by climate change, according to new research appearing in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. These erratic fires are more difficult to contain, as well as more dangerous to people living in the area and likely to cause catastrophic damage, lead author and Michigan State University assistant professor of geography Lifeng Luo and his colleagues said. Furthermore, they predict the...
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Wildfires top Californians climate-change fears, survey shows
2013-08-01 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press-Enterprise: California residents No. 1 fear about climate change is that it will cause more severe wildfires, according to a survey released Wednesday, July 31. A majority of residents also say state government should act right away to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rather than wait until the economy improves, found the report by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group based in San Francisco. The survey of 2,103 adults was conducted statewide from July 9-23, a period...
Wildfires from Eastern Washington bring smoke and haze to the area
2013-08-01 03:15:44| Waste Management - Topix.net
Despite the fact that fires continue to burn in our region, our air quality is most being impacted by the wildfires that are burning farther away.
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