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How Pakistan and India can prevent future heat wave fatalities
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 27th, 2015
Mashable: The 1.4 billion people of India and Pakistan are no strangers to long periods of sizzlingly hot and humid weather at this time of year. The average daily high temperature in Delhi in the month of May is 105 degrees Fahrenheit.
But with nearly 3,000 people killed between the two countries in two distinct heat wave events during May and June, it has become clear to local populations that their governments failed to prepare for and respond to the heat waves. It has also become clear that something...
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First big heat wave of the summer to grip Spain, France and UK
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 26th, 2015
Mashable: A heat wave is forecast to envelop much of continental Europe and the UK during the end of June into the first week of July, potentially setting records from Spain to England. Competitors in the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament, for example, may have trouble dealing with temperatures that may reach the low-to-mid 30s Celsius (up to the mid-90s Fahrenheit) in the London area by next week. The heat will first build across Iberia over the weekend, before spreading its tentacles into the UK for...
Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan tied to global warming, scientists argue
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 24th, 2015
Mashable: Humans are not just loading the dice in favor of extreme weather events, as many scientific studies have shown. They are also changing the characteristics and impacts of those events, be it in the form of an unprecedentedly strong and extremely deadly Typhoon Haiyan or the damaging Boulder, Colorado, floods of 2013.
The way that scientists have been probing extreme events for human fingerprints is flawed, however, because it underestimates the influence that global warming is playing, argues a...
2015 is likely to beat 2014 as the warmest year on record
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 19th, 2015
Mashable: The Earth just had its warmest May on record, hottest spring and mildest year-to-date, according to new data released Thursday. The climate statistics indicate the year is on course to set another milestone for the warmest year on record, surpassing the previous warmest year, set in 2014.
The data, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), also bolsters the clarion call for climate action released by Pope Francis, since they are a sign of longterm warming caused by...
The global warming conference where skeptics think they’re winning debate
Posted by Mashable: None Given on June 11th, 2015
Mashable: For two days this week, there is a place in Washington where down is up, and up is down. A place where the globe isn’t warming due to manmade emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but where evil government-funded scientists are cooking the books to obtain more research grants.
It's a gathering where fossil fuels aren't something to be phased out, as G7 leaders decided to do this week, but rather something to be expanded in order to fight poverty.
This is the morally correct...
Massive heat wave in India claims more than 800 lives
Posted by Mashable: None Given on May 27th, 2015
Mashable: India has been hit by a massive, widespread heatwave that has left nearly 800 people dead. Odisha and the coastal regions of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have experienced the brunt of the hot weather, with temperatures exceeding 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
The heatwave has also engulfed the north -- Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Chandigarh and Delhi. The India Meteorology Department (MET) has forecast the heat to continue for at least the next 48 hours, with conditions...
Rapid global warming may be coming sooner than you think
Posted by Mashable: None Given on April 10th, 2015
Mashable: A new study bolsters the case that a period of much faster global warming may be imminent, if not already beginning. The study, published Wednesday in Geophysical Research Letters, uses climate records gleaned from coral reefs in the South Pacific to recreate sea surface temperatures and ocean heat content dating back to 1791. The corals examined were from Fiji, Tonga and Rarotonga.
Information from the geochemistry of coral reef core samples reveals how ocean surface temperatures have varied...
Epic California drought preview future global warming mega-droughts
Posted by Mashable: None Given on April 3rd, 2015
Mashable: Typically, the snowpack provides up to 30% of the state's annual freshwater resources and is at a seasonal peak depth in early April. But in the face of mild Pacific storms that brought rain instead of snow, as well as drier-than-average conditions and a record-warm winter, the snow cover stood at just 5% of average on April 1, by far the lowest level ever recorded.
Conditions are so dire that California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Wednesday the first-ever statewide mandated water restrictions,...
EPA chief says Keystone Pipeline wouldn’t climate ‘disaster’
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 31st, 2015
Mashable: The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told a Washington audience on Monday that building the contentious Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico would not, by itself, constitute a "climate disaster."
Many opponents of the pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico for export, argue that it would lead to the emissions of enough planet-warming greenhouse gases that it would be game over for efforts to constrain the amount...
Arctic missing an ice patch size of Texas and California this winter
Posted by Mashable: None Given on March 20th, 2015
Mashable: The Arctic climate sent yet another in a long series of alarm bells on Thursday as scientists announced that the sea ice cover in the region hit a record low maximum for the year. The winter maximum typically occurs in March, but this year it took place about two weeks earlier than average, with sea ice most likely maxing out on Feb. 25.
The official call was made Thursday by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, which tracks ice conditions at the poles. The record...