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Pennsylvania has climate change to thank for extreme weather in 2012, according to advocacy group
2013-01-15 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Patriot News: The Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization, released a report today outlining at least 62 events that broke extreme weather records for Pennsylvania in 2012. According to the release, these events include: Record-breaking heat in 12 counties with a total of 21 new heat records Record-breaking rainfall in 21 counties with a total of 36 new rainfall records Record-breaking snow in 5 counties with a total of 5 new snow records 5 large wildfires...
Report: Climate change triggers extreme weather
2013-01-11 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Human activities play a primary role in causing climate change, and evidence is mounting that those changes will lead to more frequent extreme weather events, according to a major draft report released Friday. The draft of the third National Climate Assessment comes as the Northeast continues to recover from devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said 2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States. The...
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Times Closes Environment Desk on Same Day 'Extreme Weather' Hits Front Page
2013-01-11 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic Wire: Talk about mixed signals. On the very morning The New York Times signaled its plans to reassign its nine environment desk journalists to other sections, the paper ran a chilling photo of "extreme weather" above the fold on A1. No one got fired, but Times managing editor Dean Baquet tells InsideClimate New's Katherine Bagley that the dedicated environment desk will fold over the next few weeks. "We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage," Baquet assures, saying that environment stories...
Extreme Weather Grows in Frequency and Intensity Around World
2013-01-11 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Britons may remember 2012 as the year the weather spun off its rails in a chaotic concoction of drought, deluge and flooding, but the unpredictability of it all turns out to have been all too predictable: Around the world, extreme has become the new commonplace. Especially lately. China is enduring its coldest winter in nearly 30 years. Brazil is in the grip of a dreadful heat spell. Eastern Russia is so freezing minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and counting that the traffic lights recently stopped...
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Extreme Weather Blocks Shell's Attempt to Recover Oil Rig
2013-01-06 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dow Jones: Unsteady seas thwarted Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA.LN, RDSA) and the U.S. Coast Guard's attempts Sunday to retrieve Shell's oil rig from an Alaskan island where it has been grounded for nearly a week. Shell's Kulluk oil rig crashed into the uninhabited Sitkalidak Island off the south Alaska coast late Monday after stormy seas pried it loose from tug boats that had been pulling it to Seattle for maintenance work. The Kulluk had been drilling exploratory wells in the Arctic waters as part of Shell's...
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