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California drought, high temperatures create worst conditions in 1,200 years: study

2014-12-05 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A combination of record high temperatures and sparse rainfall during California's three-year drought have produced the worst conditions in 1,200 years, according to a study accepted for publication by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The state has gone through numerous periods of dry weather, with as little or less rainfall as the past few years, but scientists looking at the cumulative effects of temperature, low precipitation and other factors said that it all adds up to the worst conditions...

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California Experiences Worst Drought in 1,200 Years

2014-12-05 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: While rain this week provided California with some relief from a long spell of high temperatures and dry weather, it scarcely made a dent in the states multi-year drought. And theyll hardly be encouraged by a new study, which says the drought is the worst in the region in 1,200 years. In the study published this week in the American Geophysical Unions Geophysical Research Letters, researchers Daniel Griffin, University of Minnesota assistant professor and Climate & Global Change fellow of the...

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Californias Drought Ranks Worst at Least 1,200 Years

2014-12-05 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Record rains fell in California this week. Theyre not enough to change the course of what scientists are now calling the regions worst drought in at least 1,200 years. Just how bad has Californias drought been? Modern measurements already showed its been drier than the 1930s dustbowl, worse than the historic droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. That's not all. New research going back further than the Viking conquests in Europe still can't find a drought as bad as this one. To go back that far,...

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Philippines worst hit by extreme weather in 2013

2014-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Philippines, Cambodia and India were the countries hardest hit by extreme weather events in 2013, according to a study unveiled on Tuesday (December 2) at U.N. talks in Lima on a global deal to limit climate change. The report by Germanwatch, a think-tank partly funded by the German government, said the Philippines suffered most because 6,300 people died when Typhoon Haiyan struck a year ago and caused $13 billion in damage. A new storm is now threatening the country. Overall, the study...

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