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Warming climate will bring more extreme 'El Nino' events
2014-01-26 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Rising global temperatures are likely to double the frequency of the most severe El Nios - the periodic atmospheric disruptions which affect weather across the globe. Tim Radford reports. An El Nio is part of a natural cycle: a huge blister of heat in the equatorial Pacific, usually around Christmas-time. The phenomenon periodically triggers unseasonal floods in the western US, and extreme heat and forest fires in the Indonesian rainforest and the Australian bush. It happens and seems to have...
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Al Gore on Climate Change: 'Extreme Weather Events Are a Gamechanger'
2014-01-24 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Climate change made an appearance at the 44th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, thanks to former Vice-President Al Gore and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates. The two world figures commented on how extreme weather events are intensifying global awareness of the climate change phenomenon. The weather events they mentioned include the likes of the recent typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, both of which caused huge economic and human damage. I think that these extreme weather...
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Al Gore: 'extreme weather has made people wake up to climate change'
2014-01-24 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Extreme weather events including typhoon Haiyan and superstorm Sandy are proving a "gamechanger" for public awareness of the threat posed by climate change, Al Gore said on Friday. The former US vice-president, speaking to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, said: "I think that these extreme weather events which are now a hundred times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world [on climate change], and I think that is a gamechanger. It comes...
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FirstEnergy Utilities Are Prepared for Snow and Extreme Cold
2014-01-22 16:42:00| Transmission & Distribution World
FirstEnergy utilities in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia are prepared for the significant snow, sub-zero temperatures and strong winds that are beginning to affect portions of the eastern United States. read more
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Listen up; climate change is becoming more extreme
2014-01-22 09:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun-Sentinel: I am contemplating my house's frozen pipes, marveling that the temperature in the kitchen has inched up to 44 degrees and feeling that I am blessed. I have electricity. I have a working space heater. We have just gone through a remarkable period where every state in the union had freezing temperatures, including Hawaii. (OK, it was definitely not statewide, but freezing temperatures were recorded above the balmy breezes.) So many people have been through such incredible challenges weatherwise...
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