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Report: Climate change triggers extreme weather
2013-01-11 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Human activities play a primary role in causing climate change, and evidence is mounting that those changes will lead to more frequent extreme weather events, according to a major draft report released Friday. The draft of the third National Climate Assessment comes as the Northeast continues to recover from devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said 2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States. The...
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Times Closes Environment Desk on Same Day 'Extreme Weather' Hits Front Page
2013-01-11 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Wire: Talk about mixed signals. On the very morning The New York Times signaled its plans to reassign its nine environment desk journalists to other sections, the paper ran a chilling photo of "extreme weather" above the fold on A1. No one got fired, but Times managing editor Dean Baquet tells InsideClimate New's Katherine Bagley that the dedicated environment desk will fold over the next few weeks. "We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage," Baquet assures, saying that environment stories...
Extreme Weather Grows in Frequency and Intensity Around World
2013-01-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace. Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting that the traffic lights recently stopped...
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Did climate change play role in 2012 extreme weather?
2013-01-10 18:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: Every Thursday, MPR meteorologist Paul Huttner joins The Daily Circuit to talk about the latest research on our changing climate and the consequences that we're seeing here in Minnesota and worldwide. This week on Climate Cast, we discussed the role climate change may have played in Hurricane Sandy and the drought, and looked at some of the most extreme Minnesota weather events in 2012. Here is an edited transcript of the conversation: Kerri Miller: I'm going to play a little tape here to...
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NOAA: 2012 hottest & 2nd-most extreme year on record
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma It's official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just...
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