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Colorado Flooding: Did Climate Change Play A Role In Recent Disaster?
2013-09-14 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Boulder, Colo. area is reeling after being inundated by record rainfall, with more than half a years worth of rain falling over the past three days. During those three days, 24-hour rainfall totals of between 8 and 10 inches across much of the Boulder area were enough to qualify this storm as a 1 in 1,000 year event, meaning that it has a 0.1 percent chance of occurring in a given year. At least four people have been confirmed dead so far, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes...
Climate change played a role in half of 2012's extreme weather events study
2013-09-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: New research released yesterday links human-caused climate change to six of 12 extreme weather events from 2012, including summer heat waves in the United States and storm surges from Superstorm Sandy. Teams of scientists from around the world examined the causes behind extreme weather events on five continents and in the Arctic. Their results were published as a special report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. One of the stronger linkages between global warming and severe...
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Wildfire Emissions Plays Greater Role In Climate Change Than Previous Believed
2013-07-10 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Emissions produced as a result of wildfires could be playing a greater role in global warming than experts had previously believed, according to new research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Climate scientists had long known that wildfires produce a mixture of carbon-containing particles. However, measurements taken by researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Michigan Technological University during the massive 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico revealed...
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What Role Does Climate Change Play in Tornadoes?
2013-06-28 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: A powerful tornado as much as three-kilometers wide devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on May 20. The twister reportedly boasted winds above 300 kilometers-per-hour as it tore through homes and schools, leaving a path of large-scale destruction and killing dozens of people, including many children. Oklahoma is ground zero for tornadoes for geographic reasons. The state is located precisely where warm air from the Gulf of Mexico collides with colder weather from the west and north. Many...
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Rapid climate change and the role of the Southern Ocean
2013-04-08 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Scientists from Cardiff University and the University of Barcelona have discovered new clues about past rapid climate change. The research, published this month in the journal Nature Geoscience, concludes that oceanographic reorganisations and biological processes are linked to the supply of airborne dust in the Southern Ocean and this connection played a key role in past rapid fluctuations of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, an important component in the climate system. The scientists studied...
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