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Climate change and the methane crisis: Q & A with Harold Hensel
Posted by Examiner: None Given on August 23rd, 2014
Examiner: With climate change rearing its ugly head with extreme weather disasters pounding the globe, some people have been connecting the dots to the horrifying conclusion that there is yet another catastrophe underway with implications far exceeding what most of us could ever dream of: an unfolding methane crisis of epic proportions. Capable of causing a planetary extinction, record high amounts of methane are insidiously being released into the oceans and going into our atmosphere. Methane, a colorless...
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What the Frack: The Latest Earthquake Swarms in Los Angeles
Posted by Examiner: None Given on March 29th, 2014
Examiner: Alone in the house last night at around 9pm, with 3 cats and deep into working on the computer, that queasy odd sudden dizzy feeling that often hits before an earthquake rattled my nerves seconds before the sound of rattling cabinets and sloshing water from the attic fire sprinkler system had me heading for the nearest door jam.
Largest in a series of latest Southern California earthquake swarms, last night’s 5.1 magnitude tremblor was centered between the cities of La Habra and Brea in Orange...
Washington mudslide official death toll 17, unofficial numbers at 26
Posted by Examiner: None Given on March 28th, 2014
Examiner: The National Guard was called in to work along with dozens of local volunteers in North Western Washington this week to recover bodies entombed in a massive mud-covered grave caused by last Saturday’s horrific mudslide that swamped almost a square mile of landscape pulverizing structures; crumpling farm equipment and vehicles like they were tin cans.
Recovery is tremendously difficult when heavy equipment gets clogged with mud in the delicate search for bodies where shovels are often useless....
Report shows climate change behind the current drought and summer wild fires
Posted by Examiner: None Given on September 27th, 2012
Examiner: Tuesday the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy Minority staff released a new report which concludes the current drought and last summer’s wildfires are in part due to climate change.
This is the second of a three-part series on that Report. The first article reported evidence that our nation is getting warmer. In this article, we examine excerpts from the Report that connect the current drought and last summers wildfires to global warming.
Drought
“As of early September, 64%...
African farming makes progress against climate change
Posted by Examiner: None Given on September 7th, 2012
Examiner: A report of the improvements in East African farming and livestock management that help small farmers adapt to climate change developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) appeared online before publication in the journal Food Security on September 7, 2012, and was reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site the same day.
Food insecurity in this part of the world is a constant threat from changing...
Climate change forces South Pacific rain band movement
Posted by Examiner: None Given on August 16th, 2012
Examiner: CSIRO oceanographer Dr. Wenju Cai led an international group of researchers in the first definition of the impact of greenhouse gases and resultant climate change on weather patterns produced by the South Pacific rain band. The research was reported in the journal Nature and reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site on August 16, 2012.
Cai and colleagues predict more extreme floods and droughts in South Pacific countries as climate change produces more frequent and more severe fluctuations in the...
Drought disaster: Food prices set to skyrocket
Posted by Examiner: None Given on July 18th, 2012
Examiner: As climate change continues to rear its ugly head with record drought conditions in 26 states across the U.S., food prices are on the rise with no end in sight. As heat waves, record temperatures and devastating fires continue to wreak havoc, the future for crops look bleak, despite the fact that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has declared over 1,000 U.S. counties natural disaster zones.
With the declaration of the natural disaster zones, qualified farmers will be able to receive...
Massive evacuations in Japan due to landslides: Climate change in action?
Posted by Examiner: None Given on July 16th, 2012
Examiner: Climate Change Global Warming NOAA Advertisement As a quarter million people have been evacuated in Japan due to torrential rains and massive landslides, the question looms large: Is climate change causing all these extreme weather events to happen? According to a study done by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2011, the answer to that is likely yes. The study states that climate change partly caused 5 out of 6 extreme weather events in 2011. Previously to that...
New blizzard is sure to create more climate change debate
Posted by Examiner: None Given on December 13th, 2010
Examiner: Yesterday yet another blizzard began to sweep across the United States. The storm ended up dumping 20 inches of snow on Minneapolis, causing the Metrodome roof to collapse (video to the left) and altering the schedule of the NFL. The weather system shut down much of the country's air traffic and caused many deaths on the roads. Last year the two blizzards which hit the East Coast both created a renewed debate on the existence, or lack thereof, of climate change. This newest storm is sure to generate...