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Extreme weather comes to Congress and the nation
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: As the second Arctic blast in two weeks began to cover the South with a blanket of ice and snow, more politicians were beginning to wonder what governments can't do to better protect citizens against unusual weather. Yesterday morning at a Washington, D.C., hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) indicated he might not believe in climate change. But that didn't stop him from supporting efforts to cool down the construction of coastal homes in a period when more of them are at risk from storms and rising...
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Climate central meteorologist talks extreme weather
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Uncommon winter weather is striking the Deep South, and the Northeast is being buried in more than a foot of snow in some places. It seems like it's the winter that never quits. Yet at the same time, California is seeing record highs and the Sochi Winter Olympics are seeing warm weather that is turning snow there into slush. Climate Central Meteorologist Bernadette Woods-Placky appeared on Al Jazeera America and Baltimore TV station Fox 45 to talk about the connection between this unusual weather...
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Senator Warns Extreme Weather New Norm
2014-02-12 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: As another fierce winter storm swept through the Southeast and was set to engulf the nation`s capital later in the week, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing Wednesday morning to discuss how to better prepare the nation for extreme weather events. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office offered testimony on their departments' efforts to boost the resilience of critical infrastructure in the face of...
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Failure to prepare for extreme weather costs billions
2014-02-12 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit Free Press: Failing to prepare for extreme weather events has cost the United States $1.15 trillion in economic losses from 1980 to 2010 and could cost another trillion in coming years, a Department of Homeland Security official told a Senate panel Wednesday. "According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, future impacts of climate change project national economic losses on the order of $1.2 trillion through 2050," said David Heyman, DHS' assistant secretary for policy. Wednesday's Senate Homeland...
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Farmer alters crop rotation, drainage to cut weather extreme risks
2014-02-07 21:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Opts out of continuous corn The combination of weather extremes and disease and insect pressure have been especially hard on continuous corn, which took a 40-bushel per acre yield hit in 2010, 2011 and 2012 compared to rotated corn. For me the answer was to go back to a 50:50 corn-bean rotation, says Gary Niemeyer. It had been 85:15. read more
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