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Expert warns of link between warming climate and extreme weather
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2013
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A senior lecturer in environmental studies at the University of Newcastle says there is a link between a warming climate and extreme weather events.
Dr Liam Phelan addressed a gathering in Newcastle yesterday as part of National Climate Action Day.
He says while recent bushfires across NSW and the typhoon in the Philippines are not solely caused by climate change, the occurrence of such events is more likely with warming conditions.
Dr Phelan says all extreme weather events are affected...
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8 maps that explain why Typhoon Haiyan hit Philippines so hard
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2013
Washington Post: A week after Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines, the country's crisis is far from over, with perhaps thousands of dead still be counted, tens or hundreds of thousands of people displaced and basic services, including access to food, shut down in many areas. To help convey how and why the storm was so bad, here is a series of eight maps on Haiyan, its impact and the Philippines' crisis.
1. The storm's path across Southeast Asia
(Maps of the World)
This map shows Haiyan's path...
Canada: Oil sands not a major source of climate change, says IEA economist
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2013
Globe and Mail: Alberta's oil sands producers have received some timely support from the International Energy Agency, with the industry - and indeed the Canadian government - facing increasing condemnation over the failure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
As the United Nations climate summit continues in Warsaw this week, the IEA chief economist Fatih Birol played down the oil sands' contribution to global warming, and said the long-term challenge is to access the energy-hungry markets of Asia while slowing...
Fast-moving killer storm tornadoes batter Midwest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2013
Reuters: A fast-moving storm system triggered multiple tornadoes on Sunday, killing at least five people, injuring about 40 and flattening large parts of the city of Washington, Illinois as it tore across the Midwest, officials said.
The storm also forced the Chicago Bears to halt their game against the Baltimore Ravens and encourage fans at Soldier Field to seek shelter as menacing clouds rolled in. Chicago's two major airports also briefly stopped traffic with the metropolitan area was under a tornado...
Botswana faces questions over licences for fracking companies in Kalahari
Posted by Guardian: Jeff Barbee, Mira Dutschke and David Smith on November 18th, 2013
Guardian: Botswana has been accused of sacrificing the Kalahari, one of the world's most precious wildlife reserves, to commercial fracking while ignoring the concerns of environmentalists and communities who could lose access to scarce water.
Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, for the production of gas is the subject of fierce debate in America, Britain, South Africa and countries around the world, with green activists warning that it degrades land and pollutes air and water.
Yet for more than...