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Scorching Hot Southwest Is Climate Change In Action
2016-06-21 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Scientists say if we keep burning fossil fuels at the same rate, pretty soon "what we think of as extreme summer heat" will become "typical." Deadly, record-breaking heat and wildfires sweeping across the Southwestern U.S. are a clear sign of manmade climate change at work, scientists say. Triple-digit temperatures began scorching Nevada, California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico early this week. Some of the most intense heat was recorded throughout Arizona, where four hikers died in separate...
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Wildfires broke record in 2015 - scorching an area seven times the size of Toronto
2016-01-11 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Wildfires scorched a record amount of Canadas national parks last year the latest in a number of long, hot summers that have almost entirely depleted Parks Canadas firefighting reserve. We had a very busy fire year, said director of fire management Jeff Weir. We had more wildfires than normal and those fires burned larger areas than normal. The agencys annual fire report recorded 122 wildfires in 2015 that burned through 4,600 square kilometres seven times the area of the city of Toronto....
Even after a scorching September, this October wasnt just any hottest month ever
2015-11-18 16:41:29| Extremetech
This October was the latest month to set multiple temperature records -- including one record for temperature records.
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Scorching UK summers to become commonplace, says study
2015-07-06 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scorching summers are likely to become common in the UK by the end of the century while winters turn wetter and less chilly, according to new research. Met Office researchers carried out a new analysis of long-range climate projections for the UK based on 30 year averages. It reveals that the chances of very cold British winters or soggy summers dwindle as the world warms, but could still occur in individual years. The lead scientist, Dr David Sexton, and head of scenarios development at the...
Australia scorching 2013 heat record was virtually impossible without global warming
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Afterwards after the blistering heat and the bushfires they would call it the Angry Summer. But whatever the description, the Australian summer of 2012-2013 provided a terrifying preview of a world under climate change. According to the countrys Bureau of Meteorology, a devastating heat wave in late 2012-early 2013 saw records set in every State and Territory the nationally averaged daily temperature rose to levels never previously observed, and did this for an extended period. What...
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