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Climate change will increase extreme rainfall; drought, NASA says
2013-05-06 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GlobalPost: A new report by the US space agency NASA says that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future. Enlarge Indian commuters make their way during a downpour in Amritsar on July 27, 2009. NASA scientists claim in a new study that temperate regions will experience more drought while the tropics more extreme rains in the future due to climate change. (Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images) What do you think? Climate change will increase extreme rainfall...
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Extreme weather is making Americans climate-change believers, study finds
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: A year of strange and often devastating weather that included extreme hurricanes, drought and wildfires appears to have increased the number of Americans who want government action on climate change, a new study shows. Unfortunately, researchers say, this higher level of global-warming awareness is not translating into political action. Mother Nature has been pretty busy teaching Americans and Canadians and people from round the world about climate change through extreme weather over the past...
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Americans Increasingly Blaming Extreme Weather On Climate Change
2013-05-03 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A new report from Yale University has shown new insight into how Americans currently perceive major weather events with respect to climate change. According to the report, 58 percent of Americans see a correlation between modern changes in the weather and climate on a global scale. "People are beginning to recognize a pattern of extreme weather across the country and are themselves saying 'Aha, I wonder if climate change has something to do with that,`" Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale...
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Over half of Americans link extreme weather to climate change, report says
2013-05-01 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Six months after Superstorm Sandy killed dozens of people and caused an estimated $50 billion in damage on the East Coast, a majority -- 58 percent -- of Americans see a connection between recent changes in the weather and global climate change, according to a new report. "People are beginning to recognize a pattern of extreme weather across the country and are themselves saying 'Aha, I wonder if climate change has something to do with that,'" Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project...
Most Americans Blame Global Warming for Extreme Weather
2013-05-01 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: More than half of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the United States, according to a new nationally representative survey that measures the pulse of American sentiment on climate change. The newly released study shows that about two out of three Americans say weather in the country has worsened over the past several years, with only one in 10 saying the weather has been improving. Americans also have strong views about the link between global warming and extreme weather....
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