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Amid Drought, Explaining Colorados Extreme Floods

2013-09-14 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: University of Colorado, Boulder law school professor Brad Udall has long written and lectured about water issues in the American West, but this weeks Colorado floods have brought the subject to his doorstep. Four people have lost their lives in flooding this week that has engulfed swaths of Colorado and that has forced thousands to evacuate their homes. Udall, director of the University of Colorado, Boulders Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment says that...

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Extreme Networks buys Enterasys for USD 180 mln cash

2013-09-12 16:24:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Ethernet switching specialist Extreme Networks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Enterasys Networks for USD 180 million in cash. The combined entity will continue to support the product roadmaps of both companies going forward, in order to protect the investments of current customers and avoid any disruption to businesses. The companies wants to combine the ExtremeXOS and Enterasys network operating systems within two years, and so fully support both hardware platforms. Combined revenues are expected to be double that of either company alone. Significantly increased scale is expected to enable greater investments in R&D. The operating margin of the combined entity is also expected to increase over time as synergies are realised. The acquisition, excluding transaction, integration and purchase accounting related costs, is expected to be immediately accretive. The deal is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the fourth quarter. The acquisition was approved by the board of directors of each company. Extreme Networks has received a preliminary debt commitment to finance at least USD 75 million of the purchase price, with the balance to be funded from cash on hand. The closing of the transaction is not conditioned upon the receipt of any bank financing.

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Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change

2013-09-09 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Voice of America: No evidence has linked extreme weather events to climate change, until now. New research suggests devastating floods, droughts and storms were exacerbated by human-induced climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels in our cars, factories and homes. The new report, released by British and American climate agencies, analyzes a dozen extreme weather events which occurred worldwide in 2012. "What they find is [with] about half of the events," said Thomas Karl, director of the NOAA National...

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Climate Change Influenced 2012's Extreme Weather, Report Finds

2013-09-09 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: Man-made climate change contributed to some of 2012's most extreme weather, including the spring and summer heat waves that baked parts of the United States and Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal communities along the eastern coast of the country, according to a new report. The study, which includes research from 18 different teams from around the world, examined 12 extreme weather events from last year and found that human-caused global warming increased the likelihood of half of the incidents,...

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Scientists link extreme weather to man-made climate change

2013-09-08 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Al Jazeera: Man-made climate change may have contributed to half of the extreme weather events of 2012, scientists said in a new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The report (PDF), published Friday by scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is based on studies of about a dozen extreme weather events from around the world in 2012 -- from northern Europes unusually wet summer to Hurricane Sandy. The scientists were aiming to answer the...

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