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2012 Signs of Climate Change Shadow UN Climate Meeting
World climate change negotiators faced warnings from a string of extreme weather events around the globe, showing urgent action on emission cuts is needed, as they opened new talks in Bangkok recently, reports Apilaporn Vechakij for Agence France Presse. The … Continue reading
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Record Summer Heat, Wildfires in Siberia
Forests and bog land in far eastern Russia have been burning since the beginning of June 2012, reports the National Atmospheric and Space Administration website. Contributing to these record fires have been the record temperatures of this past Siberian summer, … Continue reading
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Climate Change Got You Down? Take the Clean Energy Voting Pledge
“Whew, pass me another beer, bro. Man, this heat… and didja hear that food prices are going up soon, thanks to all that drought? What? You say there’s something I can do about it?” Yeah, Wilber, there is. It’s voting … Continue reading
Odds Are, Climate Change Is Happening – Study
The top climate scientist at the National Atmospheric and Space Administration, James Hansen, has produced a new study showing that the record-breaking type of heat hammering the US and the planet in recent years is normally so rare that its … Continue reading
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Record Colorado Wildfire Just the Beginning – Study
As the West has warmed and dried over the past 30 years, fire seasons have grown ever more apocalyptic with new records for damage and devastation, as the recent Colorado Waldo Canyon wildfire showed, reports Tom Yulsman at the Daily … Continue reading
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Extreme US Heat Fuels Extreme Thunderstorms
An intense heat wave broke hundreds of heat records in more than a dozen states on Friday, spawning one of the most damaging severe thunderstorm events seen in years, reports Andrew Freedman at Climate Central. At least 3 million Americans, … Continue reading
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High US Heat, and a Zombie Hurricane
Temperatures in the northeast US soared into the upper 90s and 100s late last week reports Associated Press at the Washington Post, sending heat stressed people into emergency rooms. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s maximum daily US temperature map, … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, East coast, environment, extreme heat, extreme weather, global warming, heat waves, hurricanes
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Pace of Global Warming Accelerating Dramatically in US
A new report published by Climate Central, The Heat is On, shows that the pace of global warming in the US has accelerated dramatically in the past 40 years. It coincided with the time when the effect of greenhouse gases … Continue reading
Climate Change Will Bring More, Bigger Wildfires Worldwide
A dry winter and warm dry spring this year left Colorado forests tinder dry, ripe for the wildfires now raging there, and we can expect more of the same everywhere under climate change, reports Nathanael Massey at ClimateWire. Although no … Continue reading
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As Congress Debates, New Major Heat Records Are Set – NOAA
Congress may be still debating the validity of global warming, despite the opinions of most climate scientists. In the meantime, however, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a stunning new climate report announcing four new major heat records, reports … Continue reading
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