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11:29:57 PM Varied rainfall across state makes for a near average November
Radio Iowa - Des Moines,IA,USA

State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says there are some dramatic differences across the state. “Basically the farther northwest you go, the drier November was, however the southeast part of the state, especially the extreme southeast corner, ... [more]

10:59:11 PM Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

The recent changes in the Arctic are from both man-made global warming and localized weather shifts. By John McConnico, AP An iceberg floats off Ammassalik Island in eastern Greenland in 2007. The recent changes in the Arctic are from both man-made . [more]

10:59:11 PM Can a hot day persuade people that global warming is real?
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

(NASA/REUTERS) MIT's Tatyana Deryugin found that short-term abnormalities in temperature and precipitation have a sizable influence on whether people believe that “the effects of global warming have already begun to happen. ... [more]

10:59:11 PM Is Black Carbon Underestimated as a Global Warming Agent?
Scripps Oceanography News

Satellites have measured black carbon emissions generated by millions of wood-burning stoves throughout the developing world, but a project taking place in India's Uttar Pradesh province suggests the atmospheric heating effect of these soot emissions [more]

9:42:24 PM Climate change must stay on the agenda
Guardian - UK

In the middle of the eurozone crisis there is a danger that global climate change will drop off the business, investment and political agendas. To let this happen would be a mistake. Unmitigated climate change is a major threat to us all, ... [more]

9:42:24 PM Inhofe: Calling Climate Change 'The Greatest Hoax Ever' Is 'Doing The
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

ThinkProgress “Global climate change is predominantly caused by our burning of fossil fuels,” Inhofe's own church, the Presbyterian Church of the USA, has recognized. The church issued a resolution in 2008 that “calls upon all Presbyterians to take t [more]

9:02:56 PM Tis the season to retain moisture
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA

In a release from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus made a good point about the importance of winter moisture. Typically, water demand is lower (by people and by plants) over the next few months, ... [more]

8:47:38 PM Melting Permafrost Amplifies Global Warming Effect
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

According to a survey published in the November 30 issue of the journal Nature, melting permafrost in the northern climes is releasing large amounts of methane and carbon, amplifying the global warming effect. When permafrost melts, long dormant ... [more]

8:47:38 PM Poll watcher: Republicans split on global warming; health-care reform and
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) By Scott Clement Belief in global warming has recovered somewhat this year after a sharp falloff in 2008 and 2009, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released Thursday. Currently,  [more]

8:47:38 PM Modest Rise in Number Saying There Is “Solid Evidence” of Global Warming
Pew Research Center

There has been a modest increase over the past two years in the percentage of Americans who say there is solid evidence of global warming, although substantially fewer Americans say there is solid evidence of global warming than did so from 2006 to . [more]

8:47:38 PM Salmons Evolve Genetically to Cope with Global Warming: Study
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

Climate change is going to be one of those things where the conditions are met," said Weis. "This changing view of evolution has led some researchers to look for evidence that global warming is driving evolution," wrote Zimmer. [more]

7:20:50 PM State climatologist speaks about historic drought
Texas A&M University

Also, Nielsen-Gammon will travel to Washington, DC, to speak about the drought in a briefing on extreme weather Dec. 2. The event, titled "Drowning and Drought: Extreme Weather Impacts on our Economy and Society" is a lunch briefing over extreme ... [more]

7:20:50 PM NJ records wettest year in history following rainstorm earlier this week
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

“This is mostly due to us being 12 inches over average in August,” said David Robinson, the state climatologist at Rutgers University. “That's what made a slightly wetter than average year the wettest. All it took was one remarkable month.” Since Jan [more]

7:20:50 PM December expected to bring milder than normal temperatures
570 News - Kitchener,Ontario,Canada

Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips told 680News so far, winter looks tame. "There's a lot of fear out there that nature's going to make up speed, and we're going to be buried in snow. Well, I'm not sure that's going to be the ca [more]

7:16:10 PM Getting the Word Out on Climate Change
Technorati (blog)

Global climate change is a difficult subject to explain. The science behind climate change is fairly complex. Its effects are felt differently not just across the world but also from one city to the next in the same region. ... [more]

7:16:10 PM £2million for research into Mediterranean gateways and global climate change
University of Bristol - Bristol,Avon,UK

A Bristol-led consortium of universities and industry has been awarded more than £2million to reconstruct Atlantic-Mediterranean flow patterns, 5-6 million years ago, before the Straits of Gibraltar formed. Studying such ancient flow patterns will .. [more]

7:16:10 PM COP17 Blog: Day Four
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

... one lone guy representing the group of around 2 000 scientists from around the globe who never stop working on climate science to give the world the best evidence of what is happening and what to expect from global climate change. ... [more]

6:18:57 PM EU fights global warming in a cold climate
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - European Union negotiators leading the push to keep UN climate talks on track are fighting a sense of despondency as the struggle to save the euro has pushed the one to save the planet down the priority li [more]

6:18:57 PM Climategate Scandal Proves Global Warming Is a Crock
The Stir (blog)

More than 5000 emails released last week put another substantial chink in the global warming climate change armor, confirming what many of us have believed for some time: There's no scientific proof of man-caused climate change. ... [more]

6:18:57 PM TIMELINE-How the world discovered global warming
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

Dec 1 (Reuters) - UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, from Nov. 28-Dec. 9 are aimed at agreeing new measures to stem rising emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. 300 BC - Theophrastus, a student of Greek philosopher Aristotle, ... [more]

6:18:57 PM Is Worrying About the Environment Keeping You Up at Night? A Penguin Might
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

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2:25:45 PM When it comes to hurricanes, climate change effects may be 'a wash'
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

That frightening destructive power has made hurricanes a symbol of the perils of global warming, with the image of a whirling eye spewed from a smoke stack adorning posters for Al Gore's ground-breaking and Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, ... [more]

12:26:24 PM Secrets a Texas Drought Uncovered
Patch

WHERE was a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia found? WHEN was the previous driest year in Texas? WHEN, according to the state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, might the drought end? A child's tombstone from 1882 has resurfaced . [more]

11:04:20 AM Storyteller Film Releases New Film Documenting Global Warming Induced
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) One year ago today, scientists on a research ice breaker in Antarctica found conclusive proof that climate change was allowing predatory King Crabs to invade the fragile Antarctic continental shelf, threatening the unique flora [more]

9:53:08 AM Africa: Greenpeace Gives Climate Change a Face
AllAfrica.com - Africa

The COP 17 talks in Durban need to be a new dawn for global climate change negotiations - one in which the interests of people everywhere are put before those of the polluters," says Ferrial Adam, Climate Campaigner Greenpeace Africa. [more]

8:56:13 AM Global warming: multiplier effect seen in coastal ecosystems
Summit County Citizens Voice

By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Global warming is altering the composition of tide pools along the coast of Vancouver Island, with consequences that go far beyond impacts to single species. Daily high temperatures during the summer months have ... [more]

6:40:52 AM COP-17: Reservations arise about sign-off of climate fund
Business Day, South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa

The fund was a "crucial element to the solution of global (climate change) problems", said the G77+China group, which includes SA. The group was "hard at work" to ensure the Durban talks delivered a favourable decision on the fund. ... [more]

5:17:48 AM Water main topic at farm show
Amarillo.com

“December through February, the southern US has better chances for above normal temperatures — warm and dry,” said State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. “It's not written in stone we'll have a drier winter, but the odds are we will. ... [more]

5:06:36 AM Floods likely in Jakarta's north as high tides return
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) says that high tides in December may flood parts if Jakarta's coastal areas. “High tides are a monthly phenomenon that occur during new moon and full moon,” BMKG spokesperson Sugarin said on . [more]

4:12:33 AM SA science offensive
Times LIVE

Countries agreed in Cancun, Mexico, last year to create the fund to channel up to $100-billion a year by 2020 to developing countries to help them mitigate, and adapt to the effects of, global climate change. The setting up of the fund, which is by n [more]

2:34:02 AM A psychological toll for global warming?
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

By PAT BRENNAN / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Hot, crowded days at the beach increase stress levels, while cool beach visits with plenty of elbow room bring a sense of well-being, the study by scientists at UCI's Department of Population Health & Disease . [more]

1:41:26 AM Recent rains offer hope for winter forage as drought continues
Southwest Farm Press - Overland Park,KS,USA

Texas' state climatologist is warning much more rain is needed before any lasting benefit can be realized. Even frequent winter rains, while needed, may not break drought conditions because moisture in soils will dry quicker during winter conditions. [more]

1:02:51 AM NASA satellites find Texas groundwater at record low, will take months
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post Climatologists, hydrologists and even local residents had suspected the drought that has parched Texas for 14 months was significantly hurting the precious aquifers that course beneath the Lone Star State. Data compiled by NASA satell [more]

12:46:29 AM Study: Thawing permafrost will worsen global warming
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Seth Borenstein, AP WASHINGTON – Massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped below thawing permafrost will likely seep into the air over the next several decades, accelerating and amplifying global warming, scientists warn. ... [more]

12:46:29 AM 5000 emails from climate 'scientists' unsettle the science of global
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Plain Dealer By Kevin OBrien, The Plain Dealer The case for human-caused global warming is melting at a rate that will surpass 2 million devastating emails by the beginning of the next decade. In 2009, some anonymous hacker put before the world 1000  [more]

12:46:29 AM Matt Ridley: Global Warming Could Be Good
Global Warming (blog)

by David Bier on November 30, 2011 Monday's excerpt from Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature argued that we shouldn't fear global warming because even if it causes resource scarcity, people will not resort to violence over scarce resource [more]

12:46:29 AM The UN Pulls Back From Its Extreme Weather Claims
Forbes - USA

Extreme weather events have recently assumed a central role in the global warming discussion. Al Gore spent the majority of his recent “24 Hours of Reality” internet program on extreme weather. Peter Gleick last week wrote a Forbes.com column in whic [more]

12:09:09 AM NASA satellites find Texas aquifers at record low
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscripition) - Atlanta,GA,USA

"We can say with more confidence that yes, the groundwater storage is being reduced," said drought center climatologist Brian Fuchs. Texas has received a little more than 12 inches of rain this year, which is 15.5 inches below normal, said Texas Stat [more]



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