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UN: drought in Central America has pushed 2.5m people into food insecurity
2014-12-12 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A drawn-out drought in Central America has pushed 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador into food insecurity, the UN warned Friday. The drought in the three countries is turning into a creeping humanitarian crisis, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UNs humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva. Subsistence farmers, farm labourers and low-income families were especially at risk, with young children and pregnant women considered the most vulnerable, he said. A full...
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California's Drought: Don't Blame Climate Change, NOAA
2014-12-11 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The NOAA has just released a new report on the historic drought that has been affecting California for the last three years. Stunningly, investigators are saying that human-driven climate change is not to blame, and it is instead the consequence of natural phenomena. That comes as a big surprise, even for experts, as the ongoing drought was recently revealed to be the worst the region has seen in more than a millennium, with 2014's summer being the driest seen in a whopping 1,200 years. So...
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Study: Causes of California drought natural, not man-made
2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists. "It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," said Richard Seager, the report's lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear...
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California drought: Natural patterns, not human-caused climate change, federal study finds
2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: Natural patterns, not human-caused climate change, produced one of California's worst droughts, researchers have concluded. An atmospheric ridge over the North Pacific, which limited rain and snowfall over the past three years, was "due to natural variations of ocean systems, with sea surface temperatures largely responsible," said Richard Seager, lead author of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-sponsored study, in a Monday news conference. The conditions that led to the drought,...
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California Drought Is Said to Have Natural Cause
2014-12-09 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Scientists who have analyzed Californias extreme drought have concluded that it is a result of natural climate variability over the past three years and that climate change caused by humans has played little role. The analysis, in a report prepared for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and released Monday, found that the main driver behind the drought was patterns of water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. They increased the likelihood that ridges of high-pressure air would form...
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