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Our region's extreme weather is the new normal, for a while
2013-07-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hartford Courant: In a year that brought Connecticut the unlikely chaos of storm Sandy, severe flooding, a blizzard and - most recently - three tornadoes in one day and a fourth a week later, it turns out the weather's unpredictability is now predictable. Extreme weather has become the new normal: the vicious storms Irene and Sandy, which caused flooding and devastation; the weekend blizzard in February that barricaded people in their homes and left more than 3 feet of snow in some towns; and the fourth tornado...
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Extreme Weather: How will Europe prepare for the next flood?
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: German officials reacted with alarm when they found themselves not quite prepared last month for the worst flooding in 400 years. In mid-June, during the third week of the deluge, Germany found itself short of sandbags. Its neighbors -- the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Denmark -- quickly came to Germany's aid and provided 1.65 million empty sandbags. According to a report in Der Speigel, government sources would only talk about the crisis on condition of anonymity, as this kind of shortfall...
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$110 billion price tag for extreme weather events in 2012
2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: When it came to extreme weather and climate events, 2012 was a colossal year for the U.S. It was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, featuring a massive drought and deadly heat waves that broke thousands of temperature records. Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, and one of the most intense and long-lasting complexes of severe thunderstorms, known as a "derecho,' plunged 4 million people into darkness from Iowa to Virginia. Now the National Oceanic...
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Farmers fail to feed nation after extreme weather hits wheat crop
2013-06-12 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The wettest autumn since records began, followed by the coldest spring in 50 years, has devastated British wheat, forcing food manufacturers to import nearly 2.5m tonnes of the crop. "Normally we export around 2.5m tonnes of wheat but this year we expect to have to import 2.5m tonnes," said Charlotte Garbutt, a senior analyst at the industry-financed Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. "The crop that came through the winter has struggled and is patchy and variable. The area of wheat...
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As Extreme Weather Increases, Bangladesh Braces for the Worst
2013-06-06 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Melting ice sheets, calving glaciers and rising sea levels: scenarios of impending inundation fill the news, while climate change skeptics assure us that these are long-term problems, part of the natural cycle of things. One thing is certain: These are multi-decade changes in a warming world, which were tempted to leave to future generations. But as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy forcibly reminded us here in the United States, warming brings more extreme weather events -- and the catastrophic...
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