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‘El Nino will fade, but climate change will be with us for decades’
Posted by Climate Home: Megan Darby on January 25th, 2016
Climate Home: The UN weather agency has confirmed 2015 global temperatures were 1C higher than the pre-industrial average.
That brought weather extremes including heatwaves, flooding and severe drought, in a sign of things to come as growing greenhouse gas emissions trap energy in the Earth`s systems.
Fifteen of the 16 warmest years on record occurred this century, said the World Meteorological Organization, showing a clear upward trend.
"An exceptionally strong El Nino and global warming caused by greenhouse...
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Comments Off on ‘El Nino will fade, but climate change will be with us for decades’This barren desert was once Bolivia’s second-largest lake
Posted by Mashable: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Mashable: Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was once Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in what marshes remain. Lake Poopó was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and left the area. High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on This barren desert was once Bolivia’s second-largest lakeWas Hottest Year on Record by Far
Posted by Solo: Melchiorre Ramaglia on January 25th, 2016
Solo: 2015 was Earth's hottest year on record, according to new data released Wednesday by NOAA and NASA. Globally averaged temperatures in 2015 shattered the 2014 record by 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit (0.13 Celsius). And it beat the previous 2014 record by roughly one quarter of a degree, the second-largest year-over-year margin.
2015 was the fourth time that a global temperature record had been set in the 21st century.
Once the El Niño cycle began to affect temperatures after mid-year, "October, November,...
Planet shatters warming records, 2015 hottest `by far`
Posted by Senegal ACTU: None Given on January 25th, 2016
Senegal ACTU: NASA, which measures temperature using satellites rather than ground stations and ocean buoys like NOAA, said 2015 was 0.23 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than 2014 and 1.6 degrees above the 20th-century average.
It was the largest year-on-year increase in record-breaking global temperatures, he said.
The report, which was confirmed by a separate analysis from NASA scientists, marks the fourth time a global temperature record has been set this century. However, a year ago was the first time the...
Is Climate Change Causing Frequent Blizzards?
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on January 24th, 2016
Inquisitr: Travel bans have lifted, snowplows are running, and residents on the East Coast are beginning to dig themselves out from under the worst winter storm in years.
As the sky clears, residents are once again questioning why the number of blizzards is increasing and if it has something to do with climate change.
The answer: yes and no.
For anyone denying #climatechange because of #blizzard2016. pic.twitter.com/cnOCOqLlR2
-- T.J. Raphael (@TJRaphael) January 23, 2016
The number of blizzards...
Why the rains failed – and why they may return
Posted by Guardian: Kate Ravilious on January 24th, 2016
Guardian: Traditionally the Sahel – a semi-arid strip of land, south of the Sahara Desert – is one of Africa’s most productive crop regions. But during the 1980s this region, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, became better known for drought and famine. Thankfully the region has become wetter again, and now new research indicates that the return of the rains is most likely a beneficial side-effect of global warming.
Rainfall statistics show that between the 1950s and 1980s summer rainfall...
‘It’s all just poison now’: Flint reels as families struggle water crisis
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 24th, 2016
Guardian: Annette Williams is careful to hold her granddaughter Sharell’s head at bath time, to keep the two-year-old from taking a gulp of toxic water. Though most people no longer drink what flows through Flint’s corroded pipes, many families have little choice but to bathe in it.
Related: 'Please do not drink the water': Flint in crisis – in pictures
Sharell has been sick for months – ear infections, skin rashes and coughs. Williams cooks all her meals using bottled water, and has taught the eldest...
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Posted by Washington Post: Darryl Fears on January 24th, 2016
Washington Post: Wildfires scorched a vast swath of the American wilderness last year. But whether the 10 million acres that burned is a record, as the Obama administration recently announced, or an exaggeration, as some environmentalists claim, is a source of heated debate in a long-running fight over how to manage the nation’s forests.
A network of about 30 small environmental groups that view wildfires as a natural part of the ecology – and think more should be allowed to burn – consider the U.S. Forest Service’s...
Deadly snowstorm buries much of East Coast
Posted by CNN: Joshua Berlinger, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Catherine E. Shoichet on January 24th, 2016
CNN: What a difference a day makes. Residents in many East Coast cities were digging out beneath blue skies on Sunday after whipping winds and a massive blizzard clobbered the region. But top officials warned that danger lingered even as the storm headed out into the Atlantic Ocean. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said that dropping temperatures still pose a risk. "We will see continued slick and dangerous roadways, so continue to stay off the road," she told reporters Sunday evening. Baltimore Mayor...
Two irrational responses to climate change: Witch hunts and denial
Posted by LA Times: Cynthia Barnett on January 24th, 2016
LA Times: In late August 1589, a dozen of the fittest ships in the Danish fleet set across a tempestuous North Sea to carry a 14-year-old princess bride to her new husband and new home. King James VI of Scotland had seen Anna of Denmark only in a miniature portrait before arranging a marriage by proxy in her country. Following her wedding-sans-groom in a palace by the sea, Anna boarded the ship of Danish Admiral Peter Munch to travel to her Scottish kingdom.
They met typical storms until close to Scotland,...
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