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Is Warming Arctic Behind Our Heat Waves?
2015-03-16 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: That's at least according to a study recently published in the journal Science, which details how Arctic warming is essentially putting the brakes on atmospheric circulation in mid-latitudes, leaving North America and Europe with uncharacteristically strong heat waves. For instance, in 2003, west Europe was slammed with a wave that was associated with the deaths of nearly 70,000 people (heat stroke, wild fires, etc). In 2010, Russia was then affected by one that lasted a stunning six weeks, grave...
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Scientists warn of global warming threat to temperate rainforests
2015-03-13 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: If you Google "rainforest," you're almost assured to get a page of search results mostly about the tropics. Yet, another kind of rainforest also exists: temperate rainforests. Far less expansive than the tropical kind, temperate rainforests occur in isolated patches and strips around the world from the coasts of western North America and eastern Siberia, to throughout much of New Zealand and Tasmania. In a new study published recently in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, researchers warn...
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No, cosmic rays arent causing global warming
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Climate change contrarians have sought all sorts of explanations for why humans arent causing global warming, ranging from changes in solar activity to natural cycles in Earths own wobbly climate system. Another increasingly popular reason given is cosmic rays -- highly energetic particles from outer space sources that are constantly bombarding our planet. Scientists have long considered this argument to be baseless, and now a new study hammers that point home further. Changes in how many cosmic...
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Global warming messing with the jet stream and your weather
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Is the rapid melting of the Arctic paying us back for our greenhouse gas emissions by messing with the jet stream -- which carries weather through the northern hemisphere? And could that, in turn, explain recent breakouts of extremes all around the northern half of the world -- including recent snowfall in the east coast? Thats what Rutgers Universitys Jennifer Francis has argued in a series of papers going back to 2012 -- but there has been quite a lot of criticism. Several distinguished climate...
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Summer heat waves may be linked to Arctic warming
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Before the summer of 2010, Moscow had never recorded a triple-digit temperature, with records going back to 1879. But during a weeks-long heat wave that June and July, the city's temperatures soared well above normal, setting an all-time record high of 102°F on July 30. A new study suggests that Arctic warming could have helped trigger that epic heat wave. This map shows how much temperatures over Russia varied from normal between July 20-17, 2010, with redder colors showing much warmer than normal...
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