[Usual apology for the ad.] By Moni Basu, Fabi Rodriguez, Nick Valencia, Melissa Abbey, and Jake Carpenter 30 June 2012 (CNN) – Millions of people across nine states were left without power Saturday to deal with thermostat-popping temperatures after fierce storms pounded parts of the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard. Six people were killed in Virginia, […]
By Andrew Freedman29 June 2012 The Greenland ice sheet is poised for another record melt this year, and is approaching a “tipping point” into a new and more dangerous melt regime in which the summer melt area covers the entire land mass, according to new findings from polar researchers. The ice sheet is the focus […]
By Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune28 June 2012 Washington – New federal flood insurance legislation could force some homeowners and commercial property owners to pay higher premiums, up to 20 percent a year for the next five years. Currently rate increases are limited to 10 percent annually. The legislation, added to a transportation funding bill expected to […]
Carbon emissions keep going up, up, and up. The CAP report spends a lot of time dwelling on the consequences of unchecked global warming — e.g., by 2030 wildfires in Western states like Montana will increase by 300 percent. But they also point out that the sort of energy security promised by API is still […]
By Michael Muskal28 June 2012 If you think “Heat Wave,” is just a song, odds are that you’ve been living in an air-conditioned bubble during the past week or so. According to records kept by the National Climatic Data Center, part of the federal government, the United States has been sweltering through a wave of […]
By Deborah Zabarenko and Laura Zuckerman; Editing by Stacey Joyce28 June 2012 (Reuters) – Scorching heat, high winds and bone-dry conditions are fueling catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. West that offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring, a trio of scientists said on Thursday. “What we’re seeing is […]
By Ray Smith29 June 2012 GUTTANNEN (IPS) – Melting glaciers are the most visible effect of global warming in the Swiss Alps. Meanwhile, permafrost is invisible and melting too, often causing rockfall and massive debris flows, ultimately threatening mountain villages. Guttannen, home to 310 residents, is a tiny village in the Bernese Alps, the last […]
By Andrew Freedman 26 June 2012 Three new sea level rise studies published during the past week offer sobering lessons for coastal residents and policy makers, spelling trouble for portions of the East and West Coasts of the U.S. The first lesson is that sea levels won’t rise at the same rate everywhere — in […]
27 June 2012 (CNN) – Thousands remain evacuated from their flooded homes in sodden Florida as a weakened Tropical Depression Debby was set to move off the state’s Atlantic coast and back over water. In Florida’s Pasco County alone, 7,000 homes and commercial properties remained under evacuation order, county spokesman Eric Keaton said Wednesday. Seventy-three […]
By Miguel Llanos27 June 2012 Fire crews outside Colorado Springs, Colo., expected more weather trouble on Wednesday in what the local fire chief called a “monster event” that doubled in size overnight and has forced 32,000 people to flee. Heavy smoke made for unhealthy air in and around the city. After jumping fire lines Tuesday, […]
