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Australian heatwaves getting hotter and longer, says Climate Council
2014-01-15 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Heatwaves in Australia are becoming more frequent, are increasing in intensity and are lasting longer, according to an interim report by the Climate Council. The report, which will be released in full in February, finds that climate change is having a key influence on a trend that has seen the number of hot days in Australia double and the duration and frequency of heatwaves increase in the period between 1971 and 2008. South-eastern Australia has baked in extreme temperatures this week, with...
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Climate Council warns Australia brace for more raging bushfires, longer heatwaves
2013-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The Climate Council has warned Australia to prepare for more frequent and intense bushfires. The council, which was formerly funded by the Australian government before Prime Minister Tony Abbott scrapped the body, will release its report concerning the risks of bushfires. The Climate Council's chief Tim Flannery said that although bushfires in Australia are nothing new, there was a growing possibility that more will happen in the future. Mr Flannery said climate change will increase the risk of...
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Arctic thaw tied to European, U.S. heatwaves and downpours - study
2013-12-08 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A thaw of Arctic ice and snow is linked to worsening summer heatwaves and downpours thousands of miles south in Europe, the United States and other areas, underlying the scale of the threat posed by global warming, scientists said on Sunday. Their report, which was dismissed as inconclusive by some other experts, warned of increasingly extreme weather across "much of North America and Eurasia where billions of people will be affected". The study is part of a drive to work out how climate change...
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Climate change to trigger frequent, severe heatwaves
2013-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heatwaves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere, a new study has warned. Extreme heat waves such as those that hit the US in 2012 and Australia in 2009 dubbed three-sigma events by the researchers are projected to cover double the amount of global land by 2020 and quadruple by 2040, researchers said. Meanwhile, more-severe summer heat waves classified as five-sigma events will...
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Expect More Crippling Heatwaves By 2020
2013-08-15 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Stand by for extreme weather. Prepare for heat waves on a scale that was once unprecedented. For once, there is no if in the forecast. Even if governments abandon fossil fuels everywhere, immediately and invest only in green energy, there will be new record temperatures. European climate scientists say the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere mean it is inevitable that far more parts of the world will experience more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years. The greenhouse...
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