Despite rainfall during the summer the autumn has been very dry, river flows are still very low in some parts of the country, particularly in catchments where groundwater supports river flows. We are starting to see some rivers nearing their lowest ever recorded flows for November. These include the Coln at Bibury (Cotswolds), Nene at […]
Stakeholders from the insurance industry met with members of the U.S. Senate to acknowledge the role global warming plays in extreme weather-related losses, and to issue a call for action. By Pat Speer, Insurance Networking News2 March 2012 The politics of global warming have typically involved much debate as to the role climate change plays […]
Contact: Abby Robinson, abby@innovate.gatech.edu, 404-385-3364 Georgia Institute of Technology Research News27 February 2012 A new study led by the Georgia Institute of Technology provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and widespread cold outbreaks in the Northern Hemisphere. The study’s findings could be used to improve seasonal forecasting of […]
By Harry R. Weber and Michael Kunzelman, from Associated Press wire2 March 2012 NEW ORLEANS – BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil […]
In a tiresome repeat of past years, climate-science denialist site, Watts Up With That? has again won a “best science blog” award. Also notable is Climate Audit, which was deeply involved in provoking the manufactured “Climategate” affair, as “Best Canadian Weblog”. In 2010, Desdemona appealed to the Weblog Awards editors to exclude anti-science sites from […]
By Phoebe Sedgman 29 February 2012 Hundreds of residents are being forced from their homes in New South Wales as floodwaters threaten as much as half of Australia’s most populous state and heavy rainfall spreads to neighboring Victoria. About 50 percent of NSW, home to the nation’s biggest city Sydney, is flooded or under threat […]
By Scott K. Johnson1 March 2012 Some like to point to cycles when dismissing climate change, brushing off warming as simply being the thing that happens right before cooling. In this view, concern about climate change is akin to the naïve worry that half of schools are performing below average. This is why we need […]
By William D. Nordhaus2 March 2012 The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate […]
By AKIKO OKAZAKI / Staff Writer29 February 2012 A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at […]
By Emma Amaize and Sam Oyadongha2 March 2012 Forty-eight days after the January 16, Chevron Nigeria Limited, rig gas explosion in Bayelsa State, natives of Koluama I, Koluama II, Tamazo, Ebidouama and other communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state are now living in fear of being submerged because of the effects […]
