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Extreme weather: Canadians better get used to it
2014-07-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Floods (again) in southern Manitoba. Ferocious forest fires (again) in the Northwest Territories. Memories still fresh from last years terrible floods in Calgary. Summer in Canada. Canadas climate is changing, and with that change goes more extreme weather conditions. We are not immune from global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions; we just have to adapt differently from other places. Weather is, of course, day-to-day, month-to-month stuff. Climate change is certainly not responsible...
Is global warming causing extreme weather via jet stream waves?
2014-07-17 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: As I sit here in a northern part of the United States (Minnesota), a rare summer arctic blast barrels down from Canada on what otherwise is one of the warmest days of the year. Global warming? I could use some global warming today, people are saying. Not only is this a teachable moment, but it coincides with a major new study on climate connections. First, lets see the current jet stream. It is wildly undulating, first swinging up into northern Canada before curving back and plunging into the...
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Churning Atmospheric Winds Inspire Extreme Weather
2014-06-23 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: In trying to explain for recent prolonged bouts of unseasonal and extreme weather patterns, researchers have found that changes in atmospheric wind patterns are causing certain regions to become more vulnerable to extreme conditions. Parts of the Northern Hemisphere in particular, researchers from the University of Exeter and the University of Melbourne say, are facing the most extreme of weather conditions due to these changes. A study details these findings in the journal Nature Climate Change....
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Extreme weather to occur more often around Indian Ocean rim
2014-06-11 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: A double whammy of weird ocean behavior washed over the world in 1997. The Pacific Ocean had already succumbed to an exceptionally strong El Nio, and then the Indian Ocean was hit fiercely by El Nios close cousin: the so-called Indian Ocean Dipole. Surface waters off the coast of Indonesia cooled and the oceans predominant westerly winds reversed, leading to catastrophic weather. Fires raged across a drought-stricken Indonesia, and floods across east African nations killed thousands. Climate...
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Extreme Weather: How El Nio Might Alter the Political Climate
2014-05-20 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: El Nio is coming. Above-average sea surface temperatures have developed off the west coast of South America and seem poised to grow into a full-fledged El Nio event, in which unusually warm water temperatures spread across the equatorial East Pacific. Models indicate a 75 percent chance of El Nio this fall, which could bring devastating droughts to Australia or heavy rains to the southern United States. The debate over climate change, however, brings additional significance to this round of El...
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