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11:10:48 PM Kenya Water Project Saves Lives In More Ways Than One
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

To my left sat Russell Qualls, Associate Professor and Idaho State Climatologist at the University of Idaho, who had recently received training in a very unique and low cost technique for digging wells. Around that wood table we shared a 'meal' of .. [more]

11:10:48 PM Weather radio good safety tool for home
Agri-View

“Tornado sirens are for outdoor alerts only,” said Mary Knapp, Kansas state climatologist. “If you don't have a weather radio, consider adding one to your safety supplies, as the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Weather Radio .. [more]

9:39:53 PM Global Weirding: One Scientific Explanation Behind Boston's Warm Weather
Alfred ...

Global weirding is the statistical change in the extremes of weather, as well as in regional weather patterns which are either caused or made worse by global climate change. Are these warm temperatures we've been experiencing recently a result of ... [more]

9:39:53 PM Avoiding Emerging Climate Change Pitfalls: What Directors And Officers Need
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA

Metropolitan Corporate Counsel The door was opened to lawsuits holding companies responsible for greenhouse gas emissions when, in June 2007, the Supreme Court held that more severe weather engendered by global climate change could give rise to redre [more]

9:36:54 PM Global Warming May Have Fueled March Heat Wave Odds
OPB News - Portland,OR,USA

According to several top scientists, the March heat wave that has shattered records across a wide swath of the US bears some of the hallmarks of global warming. In email conversations on Wednesday and Thursday, those same scientific researchers who . [more]

9:36:54 PM Global Warming Created The Hunger Games
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

By Brad Johnson on Mar 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm The gripping Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, set in a post-apocalyptic North America ravaged by global warming, comes to theaters across the nation at midnight. In the series' world, climate change  [more]

8:15:53 PM Climatologist: Warm Weather Hasn't Affected Soil Water Levels
CBS Local

CHICAGO (CBS) — The unusually warm weather this past winter has not had much of an impact on water levels for growing crops, plants and grass, according to a climatologist. As WBBM Newwsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, Mike Timlin, regional ... [more]

8:15:53 PM Extreme Weather Puts Crops At Risk
Interlochen Public Radio

"We're seeing history made before our eyes at least in terms of climatology." Andresen is the state's climatologist and professor of geography at Michigan State. He says it looks like the average temperature this month also will exceed the normal hig [more]

8:15:53 PM Weather sponsored by:
Brainerd Daily Dispatch (blog)

Wet weather is provides much-needed moisture to parched soils, but it isn't enough to pull the state out of its moderate to severe drought classification, according to University of Minnesota Extension climatologist Mark Seeley. [more]

7:59:46 PM 'Rebranding' global warming is political hot potato
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

The article got conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh all hot and bothered on his program on Wednesday, where he ranted "Politico, wittingly or unwittingly, has let it be known here that global warming is nothing more than purely political, ... [more]

7:59:46 PM Epic March heat wave to conclude in Midwest, Great Lakes: link to global
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) Well-known global warming advocate Bill McKibben put it this way on Twitter: “I know I'ma little obsessed with this heat wave--but: it's not just off the charts, it's off the wall the charts are tacked to.” In some cases, recor [more]

5:02:23 PM Global warming's last breath. Literally
Daily Mail - Charleston

Politico has a story today about the global cooling/climate change/global warming believers trying to re-brand themselves. Politico was too polite to point out that the problem is lefties lost their credibility because none of their predictions of fi [more]

3:08:15 PM Global Warming Has Mining Companies Turning Their Attention to Greenland
AllGov - Santa Monica,CA,USA

With its ice sheet slowly receding because of global warming, Greenland has become popular with mining companies seeking new stores of valuable minerals. Beneath the thinning glaciers are lodes of uranium, zinc, iron ore, copper and gold, ... [more]

3:08:15 PM Gallup: Most independents reject global warming
Daily Mail - Charleston

Democrats are out of the mainstream when it comes to global warming. A Gallup Poll found that only 28% of independents believe in global warming (only 19% of Republicans do). But the Democratic Party continues to languish in its unscientific ... [more]

12:25:46 PM No climatologist for RI to ask about the heat, unlike in 48 states
WPRI-TV 12

Weather and climate are different, but it still seems like a great question to ask the state climatologist – except Rhode Island and Tennessee are the only two states without one. David Robinson, New Jersey's state climatologist and an advocate for t [more]

11:01:53 AM 3Qs: What is 'global weirding'?
News@Northeastern

Auroop Ganguly — an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who heads Northeastern's Sustainability and Data Sciences Lab — explains how global climate change and extreme weather, such as hurricanes and heat waves, could affect ... [more]

8:26:54 AM Spring freeze a 'scary proposition'
Omaha World Herald - Omaha,NE,USA

Al Dutcher, Nebraska's state climatologist, is "flabbergasted" by how much the landscape has greened up in just a week. "I guess you could just say we are all sitting here in amazement that this is happening," he said. "It looks like it's going to .. [more]

7:31:45 AM Warm spring to fuel severe weather
Sacramento News and Review - Sacramento,CA,USA

Climatologists have predicted that the ongoing trend of severe weather patterns in the Midwest will continue due to an unusually warm spring. Kansas, Nebraska and western Texas likely will see above-average spring temperatures, fueled in part by warm [more]

2:31:55 AM Farmers welcome rain hitting Oklahoma
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA

The rain also likely brought some areas out of drought conditions, Associate State Climatologist Gary McManus said. Improvements began in October, and the latest rainfall benefitted areas from the Interstate 44 corridor to northwestern Oklahoma. [more]

2:31:55 AM Indiana Hot Stretch to Continue
Hoosier Ag Today - Clermont,IN,USA

Associate Indiana State Climatologist Ken Scheeringa says the above normal conditions are due to a weather system with a huge block of high pressure dominating the eastern half of the US “It really originates off the Atlantic coast, off the Florida . [more]

2:30:59 AM Mississippi Court Ends Global-Warming Suit
Forbes - USA

The decision should serve to preclude, other similar lawsuits accusing companies of emitting global-warming gases that cause damaging weather patterns. Guirola dismissed the case for legal reasons — he'd already dismissed it once before, ... [more]

2:03:04 AM Climate Science Belongs In The Classroom
Care2.com (blog)

“Global climate change, shown to be driven by both natural phenomena and by human activities, could have large consequences for all of Earth's surface systems, including the biosphere.” It also goes on to outline what students should understand about [more]



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