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Climate Change Boosted Australia's 2010 Floods
2015-11-21 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: For the first time, researchers have linked the catastrophic floods in Australia in the summer of 2010 with global warming. And they warn that the double hazard of long-term ocean warming and rising atmospheric temperatures makes the risk of extreme rainfall greater in years to come. In 2010, during a natural cyclic Pacific phenomenon called La Nia, sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific were high, and the air became saturated with moisture. When the clouds billowed...
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Fires smoulder and floods soak Sumatra as RSPO calls for palm oil reform
2015-11-19 19:06:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Recent rain has brought a marked improvement to air pollution levels in most parts of the archipelago but localized spikes in wildfires continue to threaten air quality. The International Red Cross is implementing a three-month emergency response plan through January next year. An RSPO official calls on palm oil companies to make public all concession maps and plans for development on those concessions. The Indonesian military said on Thursday conditions in South Sumatra had improved but...
Climate change and La Nia may bring severe floods to Australia
2015-11-16 14:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Queensland could face devastating floods rivalling those seen in 2010-11 in just a year`s time, as the effects of climate change and an impending La Nia weather event combine. La Nia brings warm water to the ocean around Queensland, and with it comes rain. Fresh research now shows that the effects of climate change made the flood-causing rains three times more likely that year. In 2010-11, Queensland suffered some of its worst flooding in a century. Some 35 people were killed, and so much...
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As floods hit, Pakistans Kalasha people fear for their way of life
2015-11-09 10:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For Akram Hussain, unprecedented monsoon floods that drenched his Hindu Kush mountain valley this year were a danger to more than just homes and crops. His 4,000-strong Kalasha people, who live in three remote valleys in north-west Pakistan, preserve an ancient way of life, including animist beliefs at odds with Pakistans dominant Islamic state religion. That has led to threats by the Taliban, who call them kafirs, or non-believers. Outsiders, looking for arable land, also have increasingly...
Two missing after Texas floods as storms move east through state
2015-10-31 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Another round of storms and strong winds was moving east across Texas on Saturday, and two people were missing from earlier flash floods in the Austin area. In the Houston area, an official said a tornado has been reported in southern Harris County, and officials were checking on any possible damage there. Francisco Sanchez of the Harris County Office of Emergency Management said four to seven inches of rain has fallen since Friday night and more was expected. He said many locations had high...
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