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Some extreme weather made worse by climate change: study
2015-11-05 23:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A killer snowstorm in the Himalayas, a scorching heat wave in Argentina and lashing rainfall in southern France last year were all made worse by climate change, international scientists said Thursday. But other major events, like Hurricane Gonzalo over Europe and drought in Brazil were not influenced by global warming, according to the peer-reviewed study called "Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective." The scientific team included 32 research groups from around the world,...
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Climate change made some extreme weather more likely in 2014, feds say
2015-11-05 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A new federal study stopped short of directly linking extreme weather last year to climate change, but said that it made certain weather events much more likely. In North America, that included extreme wildfires in California, tropical cyclones in Hawaii and mild winter in the Midwest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Other weather events, like Californias drought, extreme cold in the eastern United States and the heavy winter storm season of 2013-2104 were...
More extreme weather projected in the Amazon could have global climate consequences
2015-10-12 22:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurekAlert: A new paper co-authored by WHRC scientists Philip Duffy and Paulo Brando evaluates the accuracy of current climate models and uses them to project future drought and wet periods in the Amazon. They conclude that the whole of the Amazon will confront more hydrological extremes, and that most of the region will experience much more frequent and extensive drought. These changes would have profound implications for forest structure, composition, biomass, and carbon emissions. According to Dr. Duffy,...
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Climate Change And Extreme Weather Linked To Low Birth Weight
2015-10-06 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The world has learned much in recent years about the harmful health effects of climate change, such as heat-related deaths, respiratory and heart problems caused by air pollution, and emotional disorders that result from the consequences of extreme weather. Now researchers have found that it poses a surprising new danger: low birth weight. In a first-of-a-kind study, scientists from the University of Utah spent two years examining the relationships between fetal development and pregnant women`s...
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Extreme weather and food shocks
2015-09-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Recent events highlight concerns about the risks to global food security posed by changing patterns of extreme weather affecting the worlds breadbasket regions such as the American Midwest, South Americas southern cone, the Black Sea and the Yangtze River valley. In 2012, the worst drought to hit the U.S. Midwest in half a century sent international maize and soybean prices to record levels. In 2011, wheat prices nearly doubled after an unprecedented heat wave devastated the Russian harvest....
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