By Paul Douglas, Meteorologist; Author, Restless Skies, the Ultimate Weather Book29 March 2012 I’m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real. I’m a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment and sound science. I am not a climate scientist. […]
By David Mark26 March 2012 A new study suggests climate scientists may have underestimated the effect of greenhouse gases, with global temperatures now predicted to rise by between 1.4 and 3 degrees Celsius by 2050. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience by a team of international scientists who ran 10,000 computer simulations […]
By Nina Chestney25 March 2012 LONDON – Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change [pdf] said on Sunday. Scientists at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Research used physics, statistical analysis and computer simulations to link extreme […]
By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Johnbosco Agbakwuru26 March 2012 Lagos – Following the prevalence of heat wave in Lagos State and other parts of the country in the past two weeks, the Lagos State Government has urged residents to reduce the time they stay in the sun by staying indoors more. Environmental experts have also blamed […]
By STEVEN LEE MYERS22 March 2012 WASHINGTON – The American intelligence community warned in a report released Thursday that problems with water could destabilize countries in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia over the next decade. Increasing demand and competition caused by the world’s rising population and scarcities created by climate change and […]
By Moleen Nand23 March 2012 AS the world braces for tougher climate conditions in the coming decades, it has become more and more clear that climate change is having a direct impact on our food system. The issue of food security has become of extreme importance especially for Pacific island people today. The world’s most […]
By Ben Strauss, bstrauss@climatecentral.org 22 March 2012 Florida is in the crosshairs of climate change. Rising seas, a population crowded along the coast, porous bedrock, and the relatively common occurrence of tropical storms put more real estate and people at risk from storm surges aggravated by sea level rise in Florida, than any other state […]
By Angela Herring22 March 2012 Auroop Ganguly — an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who heads Northeastern’s Sustainability and Data Sciences Lab — explains how global climate change and extreme weather, such as hurricanes and heat waves, could affect water sustainability, critical infrastructures and human health. What is the difference between global “weirding” […]
21 March 2012 (CNN) – Whether you’re walking along city streets or in a park or the country anywhere across the southeast the past couple of weeks, pollen counts have been off the charts. Pollen count is measured in a cubic-meter of air, and those are the parts per that cubic-meter. In Atlanta, the pollen […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk21 March 2012 The state legislature of Tennessee has given legal cover to public school teachers to challenge the science of evolution and climate change, in a move that looks set to deepen a debate about politicisation of the classroom. The bill passed in the Tennessee Senate this week […]
