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Extreme weather is making Americans climate-change believers, study finds
2013-05-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Postmedia: A year of strange and often devastating weather that included extreme hurricanes, drought and wildfires appears to have increased the number of Americans who want government action on climate change, a new study shows. Unfortunately, researchers say, this higher level of global-warming awareness is not translating into political action. Mother Nature has been pretty busy teaching Americans and Canadians and people from round the world about climate change through extreme weather over the past...
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Americans Increasingly Blaming Extreme Weather On Climate Change
2013-05-03 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A new report from Yale University has shown new insight into how Americans currently perceive major weather events with respect to climate change. According to the report, 58 percent of Americans see a correlation between modern changes in the weather and climate on a global scale. "People are beginning to recognize a pattern of extreme weather across the country and are themselves saying 'Aha, I wonder if climate change has something to do with that,`" Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale...
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Over half of Americans link extreme weather to climate change, report says
2013-05-01 23:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Six months after Superstorm Sandy killed dozens of people and caused an estimated $50 billion in damage on the East Coast, a majority -- 58 percent -- of Americans see a connection between recent changes in the weather and global climate change, according to a new report. "People are beginning to recognize a pattern of extreme weather across the country and are themselves saying 'Aha, I wonder if climate change has something to do with that,'" Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project...
Extreme Weather in a Warming World, and the American Mind
2013-05-01 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: To see the relationship between extreme weather and public attitudes on human-driven climate change, check out the latest report from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication Extreme Weather and Climate Change in the American Mind April 2013. To see where attitudes are in and out of sync with climate science, look back through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report titled Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation and relevant...
Is all this extreme weather linked to climate change?
2013-04-21 07:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winona Daily News: The hottest spring ever. Hundred-year storms. And now were on the brink of another record: The latest into spring without a 60-degree day. Theres little doubt the Winona region has seen its share of extreme weather. But is it happening more often, and is it caused by climate change? Depends on who you ask -- even among regional climate scientists. Its very noisy data, said Dr. Michael Notaro of the University of Wisconsins Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. Thats...
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