je.st
news
Tag: worse
Does Climate Change Mean Worse Flu Seasons?
2013-02-04 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HealthDay: Mild winters where few people catch the flu tend to be followed by serious flu outbreaks the next year, a new study finds, suggesting that global warming could mean harsher flu seasons ahead. That, at least, is the theory. The study, which appeared Jan. 28 in the journal PLoS Currents: Influenza, shows a correlation between warm U.S. winters and more flu misery the following winter. "But correlation doesn't mean causation," said lead researcher Sherry Towers, a research professor at Arizona State...
Tags: change
worse
climate
seasons
United Kingdom: Economist Stern: 'I Got It Wrong on Climate ChangeIt's Far, Far Worse'
2013-01-27 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Lord Nicholas Stern, the widely respected author of a landmark 2006 government-commissioned report on global warmings effect on the world economy, says he should have been more blunt about the dangers posed by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Stern said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects...
Tags: united
kingdom
united kingdom
wrong
Floods hit UK, with worse weather on the way
2013-01-27 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Homes were flooded, motorists stranded and travel disrupted as pelting rain combined with melted snow to cause problems across parts of the UK over the weekend but much more severe weather could be on the way. The worst of the flooding over the weekend was to be found in parts of the south-west of England, the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales, where hundreds of flood warnings and alerts were put in place. However, harder rain, plus some gale force winds, are on the way, raising concerns that...
I Got it Wrong on Climate Changeit's Far, Far Worse
2013-01-27 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: Nicholas Stern, the author of a 2006 report commissioned by the British government on climate change that has been used as a reference ever since, says he now realizes he "underestimated the risks' of rising temperatures. In an interview with the Guardian, Stern, who is one of the world's leading environmental economists, says that had he known then what he knows now, he would have been "a bit more blunt' about the risks that climate change poses to the economy. Stern, who heads up the Grantham...
United Kingdom: Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change it's far, far worse'
2013-01-26 21:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Lord Stern, author of the government-commissioned review on climate change that became the reference work for politicians and green campaigners, now says he underestimated the risks, and should have been more "blunt" about the threat posed to the economy by rising temperatures. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Stern, who is now a crossbench peer, said: "Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected,...
Sites : [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] next »