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Study Suggests Key Role for Warming in Extreme Weather
2015-06-23 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: When massive storms inundate coastlines or a veritable snowpocalypse keeps a city buried for days, the first question on many minds is: Was climate change to blame? It may play more of a role than previous studies have suggested, according to scientists who advocate a different approach to searching for the fingerprints of warming in extreme weather. In a new study detailed in the journal Nature Climate Change, these scientists suggest that if investigations focus on the well-known and robust...
Global Warming Could Undo 50 Years Health Gains
2015-06-23 16:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The changing climate stands to overturn nearly half a century of gains in human longevity and well-being, but aggressive action to cut carbon could save lives and be a net benefit for humanity. Thats the message in a special publication today from The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal. The report from the Commission on Health and Climate Change lays out the health impacts of a warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse....
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Unnatural Disaster: How Warming Helped Cause India Catastrophic Flood
2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Two years ago this month, a flood devastated the Himalayan village of Kedarnath, India, the destination of half a million Hindu pilgrims annually. The town sits 11,500 feet up in a tight valley. Sharp, snowy peaks tower on three sides and a stone temple sits at one end. The flood which occurred on June 17, 2013 was Indias worst disaster in a decade. Several thousand people drowned. The deluge tore apart dozens of bridges, swept away miles of paved roads, and carried off herds of livestock. ...
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New study links global warming to Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events
2015-06-22 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One of the hottest areas of climate research these days is on the potential connections between human emissions, global warming, and extreme weather. Will global warming make extreme weather more common or less common? More severe or less severe? New research, just published today in Nature Climate Change helps to answer that question by approaching the problem in a novel way. In short yes, human emissions of greenhouse gases have made certain particular weather events more severe. Lets investigate...
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To Increase Disaster Aid, Do Not Mention Global Warming
2015-06-22 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Charities looking for donations after a natural disaster may want to avoid linking the disaster to climate change, a study from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, suggests. Researchers found that climate change skeptics are more likely to justify withholding aid if a drought, typhoon or flood is attributed to climate change than if appeals for aid do not mention the phenomenon. "What our work suggests is that when a disaster occurs and organizations are appealing to the public for aid,...
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