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Report eyes Pacific Northwest climate change threats
2013-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Summit Voice: Managers of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary say they`ll use a new report to try and prepare the resources they steward for the coming impacts of climate change, including increases in sea level; extreme weather events such as winds, waves, and storms; and coastal erosion from those events. The report also says the region may experience an increase in ocean acidity, rising water temperature, as well as more extreme weather patterns, including Pacific Northwest regional rainfall increases...
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Climate change affecting height intensity of global oceans waves
2013-04-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: A study by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has warned that the world's coastline beaches could experience swelling and intense levels and heights of pounding ocean waves due to climate change. Mark Hemer, CSIRO researcher and lead author of the study, said average annual wave heights could increase by as much as half a metre in coming decades as storm frequency and intensity in the Southern Ocean likewise increase. The heightened wave heights...
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Climate change, poor urban planning contributed to deadly Argentine flooding
2013-04-19 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Rain began to fall over the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires late at night April 1. By the next morning, rainfall records for the month had been broken and the city woke up to find its streets covered with water. Torrential rains dumped more than 6 inches of water on the city in less than two hours, according to reports from the Buenos Aires Central Observatory, killing eight people and leaving hundreds displaced. But the worst was yet to come. A 6-inch rain in less than two hours earlier...
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Climate change models fail to accurately simulate droughts
2013-04-18 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Most of my day job involves simulating the behavior of molecules like drugs and proteins using computer models. The field is more an art than a science, partially because the systems that are being modeled are too complex and ill-understood to succumb to exact solutions. Success often depends on experience and intuition gained by working on similar systems. That does not mean there are no correct predictions, but it does mean that surprises are more common than we think and that many phenomena are...
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China to Complete Climate Change Law Draft in Two Years
2013-04-18 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: China plans to draw on the experience of seven regional carbon markets as it drafts new national legislation in one or two years, according to the countrys lead climate negotiator. The nation, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases linked to global warming, will actively promote the legislation, Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman at the National Development and Reform Commission, said today in Beijing. Shanghai and Shenzhen are trying to set rules for carbon trading, providing expertise for the...
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