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Report urges extreme weather superfund in wake of Sandy
2013-10-07 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Escalating costs from weather disasters like superstorm Sandy and the recent Colorado floods show the need for a new national disaster relief and preparation fund, paid for with new revenue including a levy on atmospheric carbon emissions, according to a new report by the New Jersey-based nonprofit group U.S. Strong. Sandy cost the American economy about $70 billion, with more than half of that in New Jersey, where uninsured losses and unmet needs are estimated to be between $8 billion and $13...
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Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
2013-09-27 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of the night, but it was still flowing about 100 times bigger than it usually does in September. A huge tree raged along in the floodwaters, smacked up against the bridge with a cracking sound, and then disappeared under the bridge. Spectators oohed and aaheda couple dozen of us were watching,...
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Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change
2013-09-09 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: No evidence has linked extreme weather events to climate change, until now. New research suggests devastating floods, droughts and storms were exacerbated by human-induced climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels in our cars, factories and homes. The new report, released by British and American climate agencies, analyzes a dozen extreme weather events which occurred worldwide in 2012. "What they find is [with] about half of the events," said Thomas Karl, director of the NOAA National...
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Climate Change Influenced 2012's Extreme Weather, Report Finds
2013-09-09 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Man-made climate change contributed to some of 2012's most extreme weather, including the spring and summer heat waves that baked parts of the United States and Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal communities along the eastern coast of the country, according to a new report. The study, which includes research from 18 different teams from around the world, examined 12 extreme weather events from last year and found that human-caused global warming increased the likelihood of half of the incidents,...
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Scientists link extreme weather to man-made climate change
2013-09-08 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Man-made climate change may have contributed to half of the extreme weather events of 2012, scientists said in a new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The report (PDF), published Friday by scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is based on studies of about a dozen extreme weather events from around the world in 2012 -- from northern Europes unusually wet summer to Hurricane Sandy. The scientists were aiming to answer the...
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