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New Report Connects 2012 Extreme Weather Events to Human-Caused Climate Change
2013-09-06 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: As extreme weather events like wildfires, heat waves, downpours, and droughts continue to make headlines in the United States and around the world, many have wondered what their connection is to climate change. A new report sheds some light, firmly drawing correlations between several extreme weather events in 2012 and human-induced warming. In a report published yesterday in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Africa: Extreme Weather and Extreme Emissions Beckon Extremely Committed Climate Activists
2013-09-04 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pambazuka: There is ample evidence from around the world of extreme weather conditions arising from the devastating effects of climate change. But there is still plenty of denial among those who design and implement environmentally sensitive projects The northern hemisphere summer has just peaked and though the torrid heat is now ebbing, it is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated. The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a notoriously...
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More extreme weather expected due to climate change
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Climate change is a major contributor to the widespread heat waves across the globe this year and will cause more extreme weather in the future if the issue remains unresolved, a US expert on climate change has warned. A multitude of cities around the northern hemisphere have been sweating in an unusually hot summer this year, including Shanghai, Paris and Los Angeles. The sweltering heat, often accompanied by droughts and floods, brought about losses in lives and properties. One fundamental cause...
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Extreme weather bears down on rice
2013-08-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: Drought, heat, heavy rain and floods in China's major rice-growing regions are likely to cut the country's harvest and increase reliance on imports, industry experts have forecast. An ongoing drought has harmed rice crops in Central and East China's major rice-growing regions such as Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. Meanwhile, heavy rain and floods have hit Heilongjiang province in Northeast China. In addition, a heat wave has scorched 13 provincial-level areas and left about 6 million people...
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Scientists warn about extreme weather due to climate change
2013-08-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
VietNamNet Bridge: Nine communicable diseases relating to the climate change have been found in Vietnam recently, according to the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environment under the Ministry of Health. Flooding is getting serious in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City. The nine diseases include A/H1N1 influenza, A/H5N1 influenza, dengue fever, malaria, cholera, typhoid, diarrhea, viral encephalitis and acute respiratory virus (SARS). Do Thanh from the Ministry of Heath said Vietnam is a tropical country...
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