BRISBANE, January 28, 2011 (AP) — Deadly floodwaters that have swamped huge parts of Australia will cost the nation 1 billion Australian dollars ($990 million) in agricultural losses and billions more in lost coal exports, the nation’s treasurer said Friday. The damage figures released by federal Treasurer Wayne Swan were the first official estimates of […]
COLOMBO, 28 January 2011 (IRIN) – Weather experts in Sri Lanka warn of more heavy rains and possible flooding in the country’s eastern and northern regions. GB Samarasinghe, head of the country’s Meteorological Department, told IRIN strong winds were being predicted for end-February. “Weather experts warn of the possibility of extreme weather again,” he said, […]
By Damian Carrington Friday 28 January 2011 Lester Brown argues the pressures of rising population, consumption, water stress and global warming will pose the first serious challenge to civilisation through our food The world is in the midst of a “food bubble” that could burst at any time: that’s the conclusion of the eminent environmentalist […]
January 29, 2011 (AAP) – Queenslanders are being urged to prepare for the worst as two powerful cyclones threaten to batter the flood-ravaged state. Tropical Cyclone Anthony is hovering off the Australian eastern seaboard, with authorities warning it will increase in intensity and hit landfall as early as Sunday afternoon, local time. It’s feared a […]
Survey shows almost a quarter of children under five are malnourished in Sindh province, six months after floods By Declan Walsh in Islamabad, www.guardian.co.uk Thursday 27 January 2011 09.56 GMT A “humanitarian crisis of epic proportions” is unfolding in flood-hit areas of southern Pakistan where malnutrition rates rival those of African countries affected by famine, […]
Anomaly map of Greenland melting days for 2010 derived from passive microwave data. Hatched regions indicate where MAR-simulated meltwater production exceeds the mean by at least two standard deviations. Abstract: Analyses of remote sensing data, surface observations and output from a regional atmosphere model point to new records in 2010 for surface melt and albedo, […]
By Gregory WhiteJan. 27, 2011, 11:48 AM The weather: it has been blamed for the weak Q4 2010 UK GDP, today’s disappointing jobs number in the U.S., and soaring commodity prices. Obviously a lot of folks don’t buy that, but the impact is self-evident, especially in Australia. The government is so worried the money spent […]
This Envisat image shows the flooded area – represented by the blue colour – south of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. Envisat acquired this multi-temporal false colour image with its onboard Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, working in wide swath medium resolution (WSM) mode, in January 2011. Queensland inundated Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change
By Bob Henson 18 January 2011 Some fascinating weather has unfolded across the Northern Hemisphere over the last month, but you may have only heard about part of it. The media dutifully reported on the heavy snow that battered the mid-Atlantic and New England states in late December. It was also the United Kingdom’s coldest […]
By Roger Harrabin19 January 2011 It is virtually impossible for the world to keep within the CO2 limits defined as safe for the climate, according to the chief economist of the International Energy Agency think tank. Dr Fatih Birol told an audience in London that key nations were not prepared to take the steps necessary […]
