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National Weather Service Scrambles Fill Vacancies Before Summer Extreme Weather Strikes
2014-05-15 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Meteorologists, get your resumes ready. The National Weather Service is hiring, and many say it`s long overdue. According to new numbers compiled by the National Weather Service Employees Organization, the service currently has a staggering 548 vacancies - that`s nearly 15 percent of its staff positions empty. Even more troubling, after this spring`s rash of deadly tornadoes and with hurricane season right around the corner, 396 of those unfilled spots are "emergency essential." In other words,...
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Drier, Hotter, More Extreme Weather: How Climate Change is Already Affecting Oklahoma
2014-05-10 09:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A new federal report bluntly warns that every region of the United States is already observing climate change-related affects to the environment and economy. In Oklahoma and other Great Plains states, climate change from carbon emissions is changing crop growth cycles, increasing energy and water demand, altering rainfall patterns and leading to more frequent extreme weather and climate events, the report concludes. The magnitude of those changes is expected to increase throughout Oklahoma`s region,...
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How Extreme Weather Convinced Obama to Fight Climate Change
2014-05-05 22:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: Climate change is on the president's brain these days--after years of pushing the issue to the bottom of the agenda, it looks like a bitter taste of the apocalyptic finally bumped it up. The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin took a long look at how the Obama administration is approaching global warming, and found that the president is suddenly devoting large swaths of his time to the issue. He's receiving a stream of science briefings, scheduling meetings with governors to push for policy, and...
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Climate change feedbacks fuel extreme weather
2014-04-07 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: As the world still reels from record breaking disasters around the globe like Phillpine Typhoon Yolanda and the latest extreme flooding in the Solomon Islands, dangerous feedback loops seem to have been put into motion according to the latest report by Paul Beckwith, part-time professor at The University of Ottawa, in his latest YouTube video. Beckwith, part-time professor with the laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology, department of geography at the University of Ottawa, has become the...
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Extreme weather: More to come
2014-03-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury: Last year tied with 2003 as the fourth-hottest year the world has experienced since records began in 1880, according to data released by the National Climatic Data Centre in the US. This made it the 37th consecutive year that the global temperature was above average contrary to some reports that global warming has slowed. The combined land and sea surface temperature last year was 0.62C higher than the 20th century average, while the land surface temperature was 0.99C warmer. Nine of the 10...
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