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Climate study finds humans had a hand in some extreme weather
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A new report finds evidence that human-induced climate change played some role in last years U.S. heat waves and several other 2012 extreme weather events worldwide. The study released Thursday, written by scientists from 11 nations and edited by U.S. and British federal scientists, explored 12 extreme weather events and found some human influence in about half of them. The report shows that the effects of natural weather and climate fluctuations played a key role in the intensity and evolution...
Summer 2012's Extreme Heat Expected To Repeat Due To Greenhouse Gas
2013-09-06 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Last July was the hottest month in the history of US weather record keeping, but it may not hold that title for long, researchers from Stanford University claim in a recently-published report. According to Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the California institution, and research assistant Martin Scherer, extreme weather is more than four times more likely to occur now than it was during the pre-industrial era. In research that was part of a larger...
Study says climate change exacerbated half of recent extreme weather events
2013-09-05 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Half of last year's extreme weather including the triple-digit temperatures of America's July heatwave were due in part to climate change, new research said on Thursday. The study, edited by scientists from Noaa and the UK Met Office, detected the fingerprints of climate change on about half of the 12 most extreme weather events of 2012. The researchers said climate change helped raise the temperatures during the run of 100F days in last year's American heat wave; drove the record loss...
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Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus to be Featured on HGTV's Extreme Homes
2013-09-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Thomson Brings Virginia Tech's Award Winning and Energy-Optimizing "Smart House" to Life<br /> <br /> WOOD DALE, IL – Virginia Tech University's Lumenhaus, an 800 square foot energy-optimized and sustainable "smart" home that was the first place winner of the 2010 Solar Decathlon Europe, is slated to be featured on the September 20, 2013, episode of HGTV's Extreme Homes television show. Lumenhaus leverages an active system of motion controls from Thomson and Kollmorgen to minimize the ...This story is related to the following:Mechanical Power TransmissionMotorized Shades | Linear Motion Systems | Actuators | Motion Control Systems | Control Systems
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Africa: Extreme Weather and Extreme Emissions Beckon Extremely Committed Climate Activists
2013-09-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pambazuka: There is ample evidence from around the world of extreme weather conditions arising from the devastating effects of climate change. But there is still plenty of denial among those who design and implement environmentally sensitive projects The northern hemisphere summer has just peaked and though the torrid heat is now ebbing, it is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated. The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a notoriously...
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