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Is climate change blame for stronger, more frequent tornadoes?
2014-08-07 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Could climate change spawn more frequent and stronger tornadoes in the United States? It appears possible, according to a new study out of Florida State University. "We may be less threatened by tornadoes on a day-to-day basis, but when they do come, they come like there's no tomorrow," said study author and geography Professor James Elsner in a news release. Elsner's study, published Wednesday in the journal Climate Dynamics, is titled "The Increasing Efficiency of Tornado Days in the United...
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Humans, Not Climate, to Blame for Mass Extinction Ancient Species
2014-06-04 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new study unequivocally blames humans, and not the climate, for the worldwide mass extinction of large ancient species dating back to 100,000 years ago. "Our results strongly underline the fact that human expansion throughout the world has meant an enormous loss of large animals," postdoctoral fellow Sren Faurby of Aarhus University said in a statement. Scientists have struggled to figure out what led to this mass extinction of the world's large mammals (also known as megafauna) during and...
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Climate change not fully to blame for melting sea ice: Study
2014-05-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: A newly published paper says climate change caused by humans could be responsible for as little as half the wholesale melting of sea ice in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland that has amazed and alarmed scientists. The finding, published in Nature magazine, should caution those attempting to turn global theories into regional predictions, said co-author Mike Wallace of the University of Washington. "Whenever you start to look at local climate trends, you have to look at the internal variability...
Is Climate Change to Blame for UK's Floods?
2014-02-12 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Across portions of the south of England, waves lap against the shores of lakes and ponds that used to be fields, as one of the wettest winters in U.K. history has dumped successive bouts of rain over the country, causing rivers to top their banks and inundate farms and towns. And while a series of shifts in weather patterns across the globe seems to be causing the endless train of storms soaking the island, climate change may play a role in the current heavy downpours as well, said Dame Julia...
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Met Office Scientist Says Climate Change To Blame For UK Storms
2014-02-09 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: The severe storms that have lashed southern England are almost certainly linked to climate change, the Met Office's top scientist has said. Dame Julia Slingo said: "In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it." Slingo was speaking before the publication of the Met Office's latest analysis on recent climatic events, by the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology. The report...