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U.S. to pledge $3 billion to help developing countries adapt to global warming
2014-11-14 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: In its second major international climate policy announcement of the week, the Obama administration is expected to declare as early as Friday that it intends to provide $3 billion over the course of four years to help developing countries adapt to global warming impacts and transition to renewable energy technologies. President Obama is expected to make the announcement at the start of the G20 meeting in Brisbane, Australia, raising the pressure on other G20 leaders to follow through with their...
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Global warming will bring more U.S. lightning strikes
2014-11-14 15:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A 50 percent increase in the number of lightning strikes within the United States can be expected by 2100 if temperatures continue to rise due to greenhouse gas emissions, a new study claims. Researchers found a 12 percent increase in lightning activity for every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in the atmosphere, according to the study, published on Nov. 13 in the journal Science. Without emissions cuts, scientists expect this century to end with global temperatures that are...
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Lightning May Increase with Global Warming
2014-11-13 20:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: While severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes typically only hit particular areas of the globe, lightning can strike anywhere. And it does, a lot. A bolt of lightning flashes through the sky and hits the ground somewhere around the world about 100 times every second. That's 8 million lightning strikes in a single day -- yes, you read that right: just one day. Now, a new study finds that lightning strikes could flash through the sky even more often than that as the planet warms, at least over...
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Warming world means a hike in US lightning strikes
2014-11-13 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Golfers beware. Expect more lightning bolts as the world warms up. We already know that climate change is increasing the likelihood of storms, tornadoes and heatwaves. Now, a model of how climate change will affect lightning patterns in the US predicts that for every 1°C of global warming, lightning strikes will increase by 12 per cent. Currently, there are about 25 million lightning strikes each year in the US. These ignite half of the wildfires that break out and kill approximately 100 people...
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Scientists: US-China pact won't slow warming much
2014-11-13 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Don't expect the landmark U.S.-China climate change agreement to nudge the world's rising thermostat downward much on its own, scientists say. While they hail it as a start, experts who study heat-trapping carbon dioxide don't see the deal, announced Wednesday in Beijing, making significant progress without other countries joining in. The math shows that even with the agreement, the globe is still rushing toward another 2-degree temperature rise -- a level that world leaders have pledged to...
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