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Climate change, Arctic amplification, Jet stream causing Extreme weather
2013-03-03 07:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bay Area Indymedia: "An important part of the global air motion in the mid-latitudes of the Earth normally takes the form of waves wandering around the planet, oscillating between the tropical and the Arctic regions. So when they swing up, these waves suck warm air from the tropics to Europe, Russia, or the US, and when they swing down, they do the same thing with cold air from the Arctic," explains lead author Vladimir Petoukhov. "What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary...
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Extreme Weather Pushes Water Utilities to Adapt
2013-02-27 19:51:39| ENR.com: Headline News
Drought, wildfires and extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy are pushing water utilities to find ways to cope with the effects of climate change, industry sources say.
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Human activities trigger extreme weather?
2013-02-26 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Man-made climate changes could be responsible for severe regional weather extremes in recent years, German researchers say. Significant weather events such as the heat wave in the United States in 2011 or the one in Russia 2010 coinciding with the unprecedented Pakistan flood could have a common physical cause, scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said. Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they suggest human-caused climate change...
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Extreme weather linked to climate change
2013-02-26 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Scientists said they have identified a physical mechanism behind the extreme weather that has plagued many parts of the world in recent years - and that it is tied to climate change. Since 2010, for example, the US and Russia have each suffered scorching heat waves, while Pakistan saw unprecedented flooding. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have traced the events to a disturbance in the air currents in the northern hemisphere, in a new study out on Monday...
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Understanding extreme weather in an era of climate change
2013-02-22 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: The US has clearly seen some pretty extreme weather events over the last year. These events have caused both billions of dollars in property damage and endless arguments over how much can be attributed to climate change. Even as scientists work on the problem of attribution, the public has often made up its mind on what's to blame. To try to bring some sanity to the discussion, the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a session on US weather extremes. Although...
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