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Extreme UK rains more likely with warming
2015-12-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Over this past weekend, a major storm swept across the U.K. and dumped torrential amounts of rain in some spots -- the more than 13 inches that fell in one location in northwest England even set a national 24-hour rainfall record. Just days later, a real-time analysis by scientists working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program has found that global warming has boosted the odds of such an extreme rainfall event in the region by about 40 percent -- a small, but clear, effect,...
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India Holds Up Farmers Plight from Extreme Weather for COP21 Delegates
2015-12-02 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "If you look at the submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs, the national commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030) by over 150 countries, most have announced mitigation-centric targets, whereas climate change is also about adaptation. India is among the few that has given a comprehensive INDC," Ashok Lavasa, a key official of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and part of its COP21 team at Paris, told IPS. A new report by Delhi-based non-profit...
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African Countries Feeling Exposed Extreme Weather Changes
2015-11-28 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Extreme weather conditions, an impact of climate change faced by African countries despite contributing the least global emissions, is attracting the attention of many as the clock ticks towards the start of the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21). Severe weather events are causing significant loss of life and livelihoods among communities in Africa. The situation is a major challenge to African governments given that the probability of occurrence of events is continuously...
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Extreme heatwaves may hit Europe in the short term
2015-11-27 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Regional climate projections for the two coming decades (2021-2040) suggest enhanced probability of heatwaves anywhere in Europe, which would be comparable or greater than the Russian heatwave in 2010 -- the worst since 1950 -- according to a JRC-led article published today in Environmental Research Letters. Using an improved heatwave index, the article also ranks the 10 record-breaking heatwaves that have struck the continent in the last 65 years. The findings are based on the use of the Heat Wave...
GM and US Army to demonstrate extreme off-road hydrogen fuel cell Chevrolet Colorado
2015-11-20 11:55:31| Green Car Congress
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