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Extreme weather: ‘the new normal’
Posted by Seattle Times: Julie Cart and Hailey Branson-Potts on August 26th, 2011
Seattle Times: Oklahomans are used to cruel climate. Frigid winters and searing summers, often made more unbearable by scouring winds. Yet, it's been a year of whipsaw weather, even by Oklahoma standards.
February was so cold - the wind chill made the temperature feel like 16 below zero - that Tim Gillard installed a door in the long hallway of his home in the small farming town of Marshall, walling off three rooms to heat the rest of the house more affordably. In this summer's relentless heat, his family huddles...
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Longer, hotter heat waves in store for California
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 26th, 2011
Central Valley Business Times: California can expect more frequent and more dangerous heat waves in the coming decades, the result of global warming, according to a new climate-modeling study commissioned by the California Air Resources Board.
Researchers using a new, more comprehensive weather-modeling method have found that the incidence of prolonged hot spells – those lasting 10 or more days -- could rise by a factor of two to ten by the 2090s, depending on the region, CARB says Friday.
“Along with reducing our climate-warming...
Philippines: The looming water crisis
Posted by Journal: None Given on August 26th, 2011
Journal: HISTORY is replete with dramas that caused nations and empires to perish. Yet today, the very existence of our civilization is threatened and no one seems to pay much attention to this fact.
Not the UNFCCC and all the Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) and REDD+ that are being pushed to lower emissions in developing countries.
Why all the fuzz on low carbon economies? Why don’t we just take the bull by the horn and have the polluters lower their Greenhouse gases (GHG) and restore the CO2 level...
Link between climate change and conflict
Posted by Radio Australia: None Given on August 26th, 2011
Radio Australia: It's an age old question; what causes conflict. and what starts a war?
It's a big question .. and one that - perhaps surprisingly - climate scientists have been studying. New research at Columbia University in New York has found a link between civil war and unusually hot and dry conditions in tropical countries.
i>Presenter: Cathy Harper
Speakers: Solomon Hsiang, Colombia University; Mahendra Kumar, director of the Centre of Climate Change at the University of Fiji; Andy Solow, Woods Hole...