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Boulder NCAR scientist says climate change worsens Northeast storm
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: Climate change will likely add to the final snowfall totals from the monster winter storm lashing the Northeast by 5 to 10 percent, according to a leading expert on climate change at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR, said Friday that snowfall totals from the storm are being influenced by both warmer air temperatures, leading to the atmosphere retaining more moisture, and a 1-degree increase in...
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Top climate scientist denounces billionaires over funding for climate-sceptic organisations
2013-01-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: A climate scientist who says he has been subjected to a vitriolic hate campaign has denounced the way that American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations that have attacked him. Professor Michael Mann of Pennsylvania University, who has been targeted by climate-change sceptics for his work on global temperature records, said it was wrong for wealthy individuals such as the oil billionaire Charles Koch to surreptitiously finance the counter-movement...
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Top Australian climate scientist: Heat wave encroaching on entirely new territory
2013-01-12 13:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Australia`s top government-appointed climate commissioner says this week`s heat wave is occurring amid record-breaking weather around the world. "This has been a landmark event for me," professor Tim Flannery told Climate Desk from his home in Melbourne. "When you start breaking records, and you do it consistently, and you see it over and over again, that is a good indication there`s a shift underway - this is not just within the normal variation of things." Flannery is perhaps best known in the...
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