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Australia: Queensland is a state of extreme weather, and there will be more on the horizon
2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Mail: BARELY a week ago all the talk was of fires, cattle dying in the thousands and Queensland slipping into the deadly grip of drought. Wouldn't you know it, days later large slabs of the nation's east coast were in flood, some record-breaking. Since the Millennium Drought that took up much of the 2000s, Queensland's weather has seesawed between floods, fires covering millions of hectares, cyclones and even a tremendous dust storm. The latest shattering event ex-Cyclone Oswald was deemed remarkable...
Sandy debris, extreme weather fears raised at Babylon hearing
2013-01-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Long Island Press: In a week that saw January temperatures on Long Island range from the single digits to an unseasonable 54 degrees, the causes and effects of extreme weather drew the chairman of the state Assemblys standing committee on environmental conservation, Assemb. Robert Sweeney (D-Lindenhurst), to Babylon Town Hall on Wednesday, where he held a public hearing on what steps the government should take in the wake of the destruction left behind by Superstorm Sandy and the increasing likelihood that the future...
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Australia: Extreme weather to put strain on disaster services
2013-01-18 17:39:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: THE capacity of fire and emergency services to respond to natural disasters will need to be increased if extreme weather events intensify because of climate change, the council representing Australia's emergency services has warned. The Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC), which represents bodies including the Country Fire Authority and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, says any increases in extreme weather events will have implications for funding of staff and infrastructure....
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Wild weather: Extreme is the new normal
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: ALL eyes have been on Australia in recent weeks as a blistering heatwave triggered huge wildfires. The result has been a slew of amazing stories, including a family escaping by jumping into the sea and meteorologists adding new colours to heat maps. But Australia's fires are just the most dramatic of a cluster of ongoing extreme weather events, including droughts in the US and Brazil and a lethal cold snap in Asia (see "Drought, fire, ice: world is gripped by extreme weather"). Lumping extreme...
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Extreme weather forces Sri Lankans to rethink rice farming
2013-01-18 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The year's end is usually a good time for wholesale rice suppliers in Sri Lanka. Customers are busy stocking up, particularly in wealthier urban areas like the capital, Colombo. But for two years running now, some suppliers have struggled to keep enough rice on hand as the year draws to a close. Changing weather patterns -- including droughts and flooding, and at times both in one year -- mean supplies are increasingly uncertain. "The weather has been so fickle that paddy harvests keep going...
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