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Extreme weather 'could become normal' warns World Bank report
2014-11-23 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Extreme weather events currently only seen once in hundreds of years, if ever, could become the "new climate normal' as a result of global warming, scientists have warned. Frequent heat waves and other weather extremes may already be unavoidable, creating a "world of increased risks and instability,' a World Bank Group report said. The consequences for development would be severe as crop yields decline, water resources shift, sea levels rise and the livelihoods of millions of people are put...
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Extreme weather events raise awareness of adaptation needs
2014-10-14 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Adapting to climate change has reached the political agenda in most European countries, according to the most comprehensive analysis of adaptation in Europe published to date. Extreme weather events and EU policies were the most common reasons for beginning to address adaptation. The Finnish Environment Institute took part in preparing the report with the experts from the EEA, the Austrian Environment Agency, Alterra (Netherlands), CMCC (Italy) and UKCIP (UK). Climate change adaptation is an issue...
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2014 Extreme Weather: What Attribution Can Tell Us
2014-10-08 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The ongoing, intense drought in California; the nonstop storms that left parts of Great Britain waterlogged all winter; the bitter winter cold in the eastern U.S. -- these are just some of the extreme weather events from this year that could be examined in an annual report that looks for the fingerprints of climate change in such occurrences. The report, a supplement published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society since 2011, rounds up some of the most notable events from...
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Canary coal mine: Extreme weather, rising seas plague atoll nation
2014-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: As global leaders gear up to meet at next weeks United Nations Climate Summit in New York, the president of a small Pacific island nation vulnerable to rising seas caused by global warming said the future of his people depends on creating a carbon-free world by 2050. Out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, climate change has arrived, Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak said in a video address to his fellow heads of state. Our atoll nation stands at the front line in the battle...
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Extreme Weather Ravages the West Coast
2014-09-16 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate deniers are gloating that the California wildfire season isn`t as bad as seasons past or as predicted in the spring, although that`s probably small comfort to the families being evacuated from homes in Orange County near the Cleveland National Forest this weekend. And the fire season isn`t over, and neither is the hot, dry weather with temperatures in the triple digits. The drought continues its negative impacts on California communities and agriculture. An NBC news report last week said...
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