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Ireland set for warmer, drier summers and wetter winters
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Ireland will become a balmier place as a result of climate change but the summertime benefits will come at a cost. The warmer, drier summers will be followed by wetter autumns and winters with floods an almost certainty, according to new climate research released last night. International effortMet Éireann co-ordinated a major international study looking specifically at how climate change would alter the picture here. It draws on its own data sets collected over decades but also on expertise available...
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Experts See a Hotter, Drier West, With More Huge Fires
2013-07-02 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: One of the deadliest wildfires in a generation vastly expanded Monday to cover more than 8,000 acres, sweeping up sharp slopes through dry scrub and gnarled pion pines a day after fickle winds and flames killed 19 firefighters. The gusty monsoon winds where the Colorado plateau begins to drop off into the Sonoran Desert continued to bedevil about 400 firefighters who were defending 500 homes and 200 businesses in the old gold mining villages of Yarnell and Peeples Valley. Scientists said those...
Research Finds Drier Climate Will Spread Diarrhea
2013-04-01 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Diarrhea, which kills 1.5 million children annually, is likely to become more prevalent in many developing countries as the climate changes, a report says. But the authors found an unexpected twist in the way the climate is likely to affect the disease. Kathleen Alexander, an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, says climate drives a large part of diarrhea and related disease, increasing the threat which a changing climate poses to vulnerable...
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Warming Means Wetter Weather and Drier Weather
2013-03-10 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Welcome to the see-saw world of climate change. Rainy seasons will get rainier. Dry seasons will tend to become more parched. Even if the total annual rainfall does not change very much, the seasonal cycles will -- with obvious consequences. Floods and droughts will become more frequent, according to Chia Chou of the University of Taipei, and colleagues from Taiwan and California. Like all pronouncements about the future, this one comes with caveats: the research is based on climate simulations...
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Climate change set to make America hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone
2013-01-12 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year sweltering in temperatures above 100 degrees F (38 degrees C), with climate change on course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone place. The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Friday, provided the fullest picture to date of the real-time effects of climate change on U.S. life, and the most likely consequences for the future. The 1,000-page report, the work of the more than 300...