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Kenya: As extreme weather drives rustling, pastoralists turn to farming
2013-04-03 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: In Nambeyo village in Kenya's semi-arid Isiolo County, former pastoralist Joseph Elila and his wife Pauline are busy threshing sorghum to remove the grain from the stalks. The couple has been converted into smallholder dry-land farmers after they lost their entire animal stock to cattle rustlers two years ago. The area is well known for pastoralism. But this kind of livelihood is threatened by worsening banditry, something experts say is a result of more extreme weather. Herders living in areas...
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Climate Change Fueling Extreme Australian Weather, Group Says
2013-04-02 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Australia is facing increased risks of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, wild fires and drought spurred by climate change, according to a report released today by the nations Climate Commission. Key food-growing regions across Australias southeast and southwest are likely to experience more droughts in the future, the commission said in a statement accompanying the report. The number of record hot days in Australia has doubled since the 1960s and a long-term drought is affecting the...
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Americans back preparation for extreme weather and sea-level rise
2013-03-29 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Images told the story: lower Manhattan in darkness, coastal communities washed away, cars floating in muck. Superstorm Sandy, a harbinger of future extreme weather intensified by climate change, caught the country off guard in October. Unprepared for the flooding and high winds that ensued, the East Coast suffered more than $70 billion in property damage and more than 100 deaths. Will Americans prepare and invest now to minimize the impact of disasters such as Sandy, or deal with storms and...
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Arctic ice loss drives extreme weather patterns
2013-03-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Anyone forced to shovel their car out of a snowbank this winter might wonder just how it is a blizzard can occur in a warming climate. The answer, climate scientists say, may have to do with record sea ice losses in the Arctic. At a Tuesday news conference, several researchers said that warming conditions in the Arctic may be weakening jet stream currents and causing extreme weather systems to linger in northern mid-latitudes. "Ironically ... as the ice pack retreats and the Arctic heats...
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Australia: Climate change a key factor in extreme weather, experts say
2013-03-03 20:37:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WA Today: A few years ago, talking about weather and climate change in the same breath was a cardinal sin for scientists. Now it has become impossible to have a conversation about the weather without discussing wider climate trends, according to researchers who prepared the Australian Climate Commission's latest report. The report, The Angry Summer, says behind the litany of broken heat and rainfall records this year, a clear pattern has now emerged. ''Statistically, there is a one in 500 chance that...
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