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10:45:11 PM Is there anything sadder than snow in April?
Windsor Star

Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips did warn us back in March that “there has never been a time in Windsor's recorded history where you have NOT had snow after March 13.” You remember March, don't you? [more]

10:10:09 PM Weather, Investing And Global Watering
Forbes - USA

Another subject on which there is far from universal agreement is the origins of global climate change. There can be no doubt that changing weather is affecting all regions of the globe, and in some cases, with increasing severity. [more]

10:10:09 PM Is Your SUV Killing Ocean Coral Reefs?
Forbes - USA

The following year, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a group advocating immediate action on global warming, gave that wrecking ball of anxiety a big shove. They issued a report predicting that the air's increased CO2 content could produce a . [more]

10:10:09 PM Former astronauts blast NASA for 'extreme position' on climate change
Daily Caller

The group said that the statements that “man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated.” “The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA's history o [more]

10:08:43 PM Texas crop, weather: Wheat better than anyone hoped in areas
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA

Last winter, climatologists were forecasting the winter and early spring would be drier and warmer than average because of a strong La Niña, Drake noted. The year did turn out to be warmer. Lubbock, for example, recorded the second-warmest March on . [more]

10:03:53 PM Global Warming on a Roll at the Poles: Increased Melting, Cracking &
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post A recent study found that West Antarctic ice shelves are fracturing at an ever-faster rate, thus losing hold of the rocky walls that slow their flow out to sea. Bottom line: our warming globe is depleting the South Pole's ice cap fast [more]

10:03:53 PM Astronauts condemn NASA's global warming endorsement
Washington Examiner (blog)

Cunningham has signed a letter demanding that NASA stop endorsing global warming. (Photo by Matt Stroshane/Getty Images) In an unprecedented slap at NASA's endorsement of global warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and scientists--including t [more]

10:03:53 PM Global Warming Rebellion Rocks NASA
Fox News (blog)

Eventually the sham is going to give, and the latest letter signed by 50 NASA experts, with more than 1000 years of combined professional experience, is a sure sign the gig's about over. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, ... [more]

7:24:25 PM Global warming: Plants exposed to rising temperatures deteriorate
Global Adventures, LLC

Flagstaff (global-adventures.us): Global warming related to rising average temperatures of Earth's atmosphere, lakes and oceans may initially make the grass greener, but not for long periods of time. Plants begin to deteriorate quickly after the earl [more]

6:24:59 PM The Grass is Greener in Perth, a Water-Scarce City Adjusting to Climate
NatGeo News Watch

National Geographic Photo: ChadBriggs, Flickr with permission The capital of Western Australia, Perth, is at the epicenter of global climate change. The city's strategic response offers lessons about climate change mitigation, exacerbation and adapta [more]

6:24:59 PM Tiny, Happy People
First Things

According to three ethicists writing in the journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment, because geoengineering might be too risky a way to combat global climate change, we should alter the human species instead. Here is the argument offered by Matthe [more]

6:02:57 PM Global warming does not benefit plants: new study
People's World

According to a the results of a study by researchers at Northern Arizona University , somewhat rosy predictions about purported beneficial effects of global warming on plant life are likely not true. According to current scientific thought, ... [more]

3:07:06 PM US ecosystems basically unaffected by global warming, studies show
Register - London,England,UK

By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Scientists monitoring water flow in streams at test sites across the USA have found, unexpectedly, that the global warming seen in the late 20th century had basically no effect on most of the ecosystems they  [more]

3:07:06 PM Open Thread: Top Alarmist Admits Public Not as Scared of Global Warming
NewsBusters - USA

A recent BBC poll found that 25% of British adults did not think global warming was happening. Not only is he wrong on the scientific question and lying about how there is more consensus than before (there isn't), Hansen is clearly wrong about the .. [more]

3:07:06 PM Global warming – an impeding catastrophe or a new stage of evolution?
The Voice of Russia

The increased plants growth is caused, of course, by global warming. The ice which stayed frozen for many years, if not centuries, is now melting, and, after a while, plants will appear in its place. Scientists even believe that leaf-losing plants, . [more]

2:53:55 PM Extreme Precipitation Events in Northeast Spain
CO2 Science Magazine - Tempe,AZ,USA

International Journal of Climatology 31: 2102-2114. The authors write that "analysis of the characteristics of extreme precipitation over large areas has received considerable attention, mainly due to its implications for hazard assessment and risk . [more]

9:25:52 AM After warm March, frost likely this week
News Courier

Kris White, a climatologist with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, said while the late frost is out of the ordinary, an April cold snap is not unusual. The Huntsville region's average last freeze date is April 3, though North Alabama has .. [more]

9:25:52 AM Iowa soil 55 percent moisture adequate
and ...

After above-average rainfall in March that alleviated much of the dry conditions, State Climatologist Harry Hillaker reported statewide average precipitation was only 0.09 inch last week while normal for the week is 0.66 inch. [more]

8:36:52 AM Drought news a reminder to conserve
Longmont Daily Times-Call

It's also brought bad news from climatologists at Colorado State University, who last week reported that 98 percent of the state is in a drought. Snowpack has been below average in most of the state's basins, and the warm temperatures have dried out  [more]

8:23:08 AM Some plants in SJ not so green
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA

The new information allows the public to learn, for the first time, which local facilities are having the greatest impact on global climate change. For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has publicly identified facilities that create ... [more]

7:45:33 AM Global warming: Permafrost melt suspected as cause of extreme global
Summit County Citizens Voice

Summit County Citizens Voice By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Instead of massive releases of carbon from ocean sources, melting tundra may have been the fuel for a series of extreme global warming events about 55 million years ago, according to Univer [more]

7:45:33 AM Meteorologists take up global warming issue – again
Portland Tribune

About 500 people attended the chapter's meeting in January that discussed whether global warming was “the greatest scientific myth of our generation?” January's meeting was rescheduled from late November after OMSI asked the group to move fearing the [more]

1:30:54 AM NOAA report: Global warming a factor in March record highs
Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA

By Steve Bennish, Staff Writer 7:49 PM Monday, April 9, 2012 March high temperatures that broke century-old records were in part fueled by global warming from human activity, an early analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  [more]

1:30:54 AM Global warming "hiatus" in recent years helps spur skepticism
OregonLive.com

By Scott Learn, The Oregonian View full sizeAP For those who want more action on global warming, an inconvenient truth has arisen over the last decade: Annual average temperatures stayed relatively flat globally -- and dropped in the United States an [more]

1:30:54 AM Report: Global Warming Causing Extreme Weather To Hit More Illinois
Progress Illinois - Chicago,IL,USA

Progress Illinois ... Emergency Management Agency in Chicago Wednesday for the release of advocacy group Environment Illinois' new report, “In the Path of the Storm: Global Warming, Extreme Weather, and the Impacts of Weather-Related Disasters in the [more]

12:56:43 AM Shrinking Glaciers, Rising Sea Level & Long-Term Changes in Climate
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

PR Web (press release) Leaders from aquariums around the country will convene in Baltimore this week to discuss and explore best practices and programs for inspiring their audiences to be part of the global climate change conversation. The Communicat [more]



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