By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press 28 June 2011 LUBBOCK, Texas — West Texas farmer Billy Brown remembers the devastating drought that spanned the state in the 1950s — and believes this one is worse. […] “The grass just crackles underneath the feet,” Brown, 72, said of walking across his acreage in the town of Panhandle […]
By Steve Savage27 June 2011 I tend to be a “glass half full” sort of person, particularly about the prospects of successfully feeding the 9-10 billion people we expect by 2050. My optimism is based on daily contact with the innovative public and private entities who develop technology for agriculture. It is also based on […]
MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti) – The volume of annual runoff of almost all of Russia’s rivers will be substantially affected by global climate change, the Emergencies Ministry’s Natural Disaster Center said on Wednesday. “Owing to the expected shifts in temperature and rainfall amounts, the annual runoff of rivers located in the Central and the […]
By Bronwyn Herbert 27 June 2011 TONY EASTLEY: Just 41 per cent of Australians think addressing climate change is a serious and pressing issue. The key finding is in the annual Lowy Institute poll, in which 1000 people were interviewed in March. The institute also finds three-quarters of adult Australians believe the Federal Government has […]
More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. This is the first of a three-part series By John Carey28 June 2011 Editor’s note: This article is the first of a three-part series by John Carey. Part 2, “Global Warming and the Science of Extreme Weather,” […]
Sea level predicted from paleo-temperature data, using sea-level proxy data from the whole period. Shaded error bands indicate 1σ and 2σ uncertainties. A correction of −0.2 K was applied to temperatures for AD 500–1100. Sea level predicted from adjusted temperature (gray) and summary of proxy-reconstructed sea levels from North Carolina (pink). GIA-adjusted sea level expressed […]
By Darryl Fears26 June 2011 From his government office in Virginia Beach, Clay Bernick can see the future, and that future looks a rather lot like the movie Waterworld. The sea level is rising in Virginia Beach and the entire area known as Hampton Roads because of the warming climate, and the area also happens […]
By Peter Huck27 June 2011 This month, as the US reeled from some very nasty weather – floods in Mississippi, drought in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest – the New York Times got right down to brass tacks: given damage to property, crops and lost business, how much would insurers have to fork out? Ten […]
By Ashwini Shrivastava 26 Jun 2011 Leh (PTI) – Ten months after a deadly natural disaster claimed over 250 lives, relief and rehabilitation work being carried out by the authorities here is hitting a roadblock– due to paucity of funds. Piles of mud and stone are still lying at Choglumsar, which bore the major brunt […]
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist 24 June 2011 Two dolphins that would be more at home frolicking in the warm bays of southern California or Mexico are cruising the chilly waters of Puget Sound and biologists are baffled by an apparent trend for tropical species to head north. Reports of strange whistles started coming in […]
