9 February 2014 (theguardian.com) – Forecasters have warned of another week of storms as the prime minister prepares to lead the latest emergency meeting about the flooding crisis. Heavy rain and winds of more than 60mph are predicted to die down throughout Sunday but the brief respite will be broken by another storm arriving Monday […]
8 February 2014 (Sky News) – Southern Britain is on alert as hurricane-force winds and heavy rain combine with high tides to threaten more flooding misery. South Wales and the South West were the first areas to be hit by the storm which is set to move over the rest of southern England throughout the […]
Contact: Karolin Eichler (WMO/OBS/WIS/DMA) Features of the decade – temperature The decade 2001-2010 was characterized by a record in global temperature increase since sufficiently comprehensive global surface temperature measurement began in 1850 For global land-surface air temperatures as well as for ocean-surface temperatures this decade was the warmest on record This trend is confirmed at […]
Contact: Clare Nullis, Media Officer, Communications and Public Affairs, Tel: +(41 22) 730 8478; (41-79) 7091397, email: cnullis at wmo.int5 February 2014 Geneva (WMO) –The year 2013 was among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It tied with 2007 as the sixth warmest […]
30 January 2014 (NBC News) – Andy Domenigoni, a fourth generation vegetable farmer in Riverside California, is feeling the pain from the state’s drought. It has been so dry there for so long that officials have declared what’s called an “exceptional drought.” California Farms Going Thirsty Technorati Tags: California,North America,drought,global warming,climate change,crop failure,agriculture
By Jeremy Hance4 February 2014 (mongabay.com) – The UN and partner humanitarian groups today called on the international community to spend $2 billion to avoid a famine in Africa’s Sahel region, which includes nine nations along the southern edge of the Sahara. Although the Sahel is chronically prone to food insecurity, the situation has dramatically […]
By Sam Carana4 February 2014 (Arctic News) – While much of the continental United States endured several cold snaps in January 2014, record-breaking warmth gripped Alaska. Spring-like conditions set rivers rising and avalanches tumbling. NASA Earth Observatory illustrates these words with the image above. The above map depicts land surface temperature anomalies in Alaska for […]
Contact: Nick Manning, University of Waterloo, 519-888-4451, 226-929-76273 February 2014 (University of Waterloo) – Arctic lakes have been freezing up later in the year and thawing earlier, creating a winter ice season about 24 days shorter than it was in 1950, a University of Waterloo study has found. The research, sponsored by the European Space […]
By D. R. Tucker4 February 2014 (Coffee Party USA) – I appreciate your courage in having Mr. Inglis on The Matt Lewis Show — and I do mean courage, since I recognize that it’s far easier to ridicule Inglis as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) than it is to engage with his arguments. You […]
By Marlene Cimons 31 January 2014 (LiveScience) – For months after Hurricane Sandy sent nearly six feet of water surging into her home in Long Beach, N.Y. — an oceanfront city along Long Island’s south shore — retired art teacher Marcia Bard Isman woke up many mornings feeling anxious and nauseated. She had headaches, and […]
