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Wetter winters may pollute UK rivers, scientists warn
2014-03-24 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Intense winter rainfalls might cause more agricultural chemicals to be washed away into waterways, polluting rivers and encouraging the growth of algae, according to UK academics. Researchers from English and Welsh universities have suggested that if British winters continue to be mild and wet, much like the winter that has just ended, fertilisers and other soil chemicals from agricultural land will end up in waterways, with serious consequences. Professor Phil Haygarth, the coordinator of...
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Lord Sterns climate change warning: warmer and wetter UK not a coincidence
2014-02-14 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The record-breaking weather and severe flooding currently affecting many areas of the UK are part of an escalating trend, a leading economist and expert on climate change has warned. Writing for the Guardian Lord Stern, the chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, describes the possible consequences of ignoring this pattern. Four of the five wettest years recorded in the UK have occurred from the year 2000 onwards. Over...
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Melting Arctic sea ice means its only going to get wetter for northern Europe
2013-10-29 01:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The unprecedented run of wet summer weather in recent years could be due in part to the melting sea ice in the Arctic, which appears to be affecting the movement of high-altitude winds over Britain, a study has found. Scientists believe they have discovered a causal link between the loss of Arctic sea ice in summer months and variations in the jet stream that have brought a series of very wet summers to Britain and northern Europe. The six summers from 2007 to 2012 were all wetter than average...
Ireland set for warmer, drier summers and wetter winters
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Ireland will become a balmier place as a result of climate change but the summertime benefits will come at a cost. The warmer, drier summers will be followed by wetter autumns and winters with floods an almost certainty, according to new climate research released last night. International effortMet Éireann co-ordinated a major international study looking specifically at how climate change would alter the picture here. It draws on its own data sets collected over decades but also on expertise available...
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Our Hotter, Wetter, More Violent Future
2013-08-01 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Earths atmosphere seems to have found a way to get back at the human race. For almost three centuries, we humans have been filling the air with carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. Now, it turns out, the climate change these emissions have wrought is turning people against one another. So says a review, published today, of 60 studies on how climate change helps spark conflict throughout the world. The researchers found a surprisingly close link between climate change and civil...
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