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Arctic melt brings more persistent heat waves to US, Europe
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.S., Europe and Russia face longer heat waves because summer winds that used to bring in cool ocean air have been weakened by climate change, German researchers said. Rapid Arctic warming disturbs air streams in ways that have significantly reduced summer storms, raising the likelihood of heat waves, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said in a report Thursday in the journal Science. Hot weather in Russia in 2010 devastated crop harvests and caused wildfires. Unabated...
Cities sizzle more heat waves, hotter nights
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Temperatures on Earth are creeping upward, and nowhere are they being felt more intensely than in the cities where half of the planet's population resides, a new study suggests. Nearly half the planet`s urban areas experienced a significant rise in the number of extreme heat days and of heat waves that lasted six days or more, according to the study published online Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Nearly two thirds of those cities also experienced significant increases...
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Climate Change Brings Heat Waves and Cold Snaps
2014-08-01 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: While climate change is usually associated with warming temperatures, new research indicates that the planet will experience heat waves as well as cold snaps in the coming years. About 97 percent of scientists, at this point, agree that the temperature of the planet is rising because of human-related activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. But until now, they didn't know the degree of variability surrounding that increase - meaning the difference between hot and cold...
Deadly Heat Waves, Flooding Rains, Crop Failures
2014-05-07 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: When it rains, it pours. When it's dry, it's parched. When it's hot, it lasts. These are some of the impacts climate change is already bringing to the United States, with more extremes to come in the future, according to the National Climate Assessment report released yesterday. With 30 chapters, multiple appendices and a user-friendly website, the report comprehensively documents climate change impacts across the United States. It even includes a frequently asked questions section--a sort...
More Heat Waves, Drought, Sea Level Rise In Store For Southeast U.S.: Report
2013-11-14 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Southerners will see more drought, longer and more severe heat waves, and poorer air quality over the next 20 years and beyond, according to a new report on the impact of climate change in the Southeastern U.S. Titled Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts and Vulnerability, the report is part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and comes billed as the "most comprehensive look to date" at climate-related impacts across an 11-state region that stretches from the...