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Global Warming Hiatus Tied to Cooler Temperatures in Pacific Ocean: A Study
2013-08-28 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A team of researchers believe they have identified the cause behind the much-cited slowdown in global warming that has taken place over the last decade and a half or so, pointing to cooler temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean as the likely cause. Between 1950 and 2000, global temperatures rose at a rate of 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade, according to NOAA. Since then, however, this rate has dropped to roughly 0.05 degrees Celsius, Raw Story reports. This so-called "global warming hiatus"...
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Is the Pacific Ocean Responsible for a Pause in Global Warming?
2013-08-28 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: From the 1940s through the 1970s there was no major warming trend in the average surface temperature of Earth. At the same time, the tropical Pacific Ocean, which is responsible for the weather patterns known as El Nio and La Nia that can swing global average temperatures by as much as 0.3 degree Celsius, was anomalously cold. For the past decade or so the tropical Pacific has again gone cold--more Nia than Nio--and a new study suggests that the phenomenon may explain the recent "pause" in global...
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Study Ties Global Warming Hiatus to Pacific Cooldown
2013-08-28 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scientists probing the mystery of the so-called "global warming hiatus" may have made a breakthrough. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a persistent area of unusually cool sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean could explain why, despite ever-increasing amounts of manmade greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global average surface temperatures have increased at a slower rate during the past 15 years. By running sophisticated computer models that...
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Environmental group wants to name hurricanes for global warming 'deniers'
2013-08-27 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The environmental group 350.org has launched a new campaign called Climate Name Change that proposes to revise to how hurricanes are named: call them, the groups says, after policymakers who say that humans are not to blame for global warming. This will save the Katrinas and Sandys of the world from the injustice of having their names attached to major disaster, the group says. And, as a bonus, it will produce some peculiar weather reports. Rick Perry leaves trail of death, scrolls a line...
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Silicon Valley water district moves to join global warming divestment movement
2013-08-27 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Jose Mercury News: In the 1980s, hundreds of American cities, states and universities sold their investments in South African companies as part of a protest against that country's former apartheid government. Now, environmental groups are trying to duplicate that effort, but with global warming polluters in the role of villain. And, just as with South African divestment a generation ago, the Bay Area is at the head of the parade again, prompting cheers from environmentalists and jeers from skeptics who say the whole...
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