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11:36:24 PM Tornadoes! Floods! Droughts! Scientists say it's global warming
Kansas City Star - MO,USA

Scientists say there are connections between many of the severe weather events of the past month and global warming. "Basically, as we warm the world up, the atmosphere can hold more moisture in it," said Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the [more]

11:00:53 PM Climate Change Causing Increase in Allergy Symptoms
HealthNews - Carslbad,CA,USA

By Lynn Walbrecht, Last updated on May 25, 2011 Not only is global climate change prompting a longer allergy season, it is also contributing to an increase in allergy symptoms across the board. Airborne allergens are flourishing , causing a 6 percent [more]

8:29:18 PM Weather Window: Twin Tahoe winters pack a punch
Sierra Sun - Truckee,CA,USA

Climatologists will ultimately blame the cool La Niña episode in the Pacific Ocean for much of this winter's relentless barrage of cold snowstorms, a similar pattern to 1907, when a record 884 inches (73.6 feet) of snow fell in the Sierra. ... [more]

7:46:47 PM Ho Hum, More Scientific Data, Another Nail in the Global Warming
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Records are broken all the time, and of course we can't link any specific event above to the slow process of Global Warming. We do note that all of these events are consistent with what the climate models have been p [more]

7:46:47 PM Allergies Increase in California, Possibly Thanks to Global Warming
LA Weekly

Along with rising oceans, hotter-than-normal temps, and Al Gore's ego, you might be able to blame this boon to the makers of Kleenex on global warming. New research suggests that allergens, like George Hamilton, are thriving because of warmer temps.  [more]

5:55:54 PM Cold wave in Peru
Living in Peru - Lima,Peru

Engineer and meteorologist for the National Service of Climatology, Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhi), Ena Jaimes, reported that Junín will face even greater cold from May to July. She said Laive recorded temperatures as low as -4 degrees (Celcius) [more]

5:43:02 PM Global Warming May Affect the Capacity of Trees to Store Carbon
Science Daily (press release) - USA

ScienceDaily (May 25, 2011) — One helpful action anyone can take in response to global warming is to plant trees and preserve forests. Trees and plants capture carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, thereby removing the most abundant greenhouse gas .. [more]

3:58:34 PM U.-Va. agrees to complete response to global warming public records request
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) Bob Marshall (R-Prince William), want e-mails and other documents related to the work of global warming researcher Michael Mann. The university has said the group requested about 9000 pages of records, and the organization says [more]

3:58:34 PM Severe Spring: 2011 Weather Raises More Global Warming Questions
The Takeaway - New York City,New York,USA

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University and author of "A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions." She says our unpredictable spring is part of climate change and that Spring is comin [more]

3:58:34 PM The Skeptical Search Engine
ScienceBlogs - USA

People are asking me: Is the recent spate of tornadoes caused by global warming? The usual answer to that question is that you can't answer the question because a tornado is not caused by climate ... it is cause by weather ... and global warming (whi [more]

2:55:22 PM Warmer weather on the horizon
Independent Plus

Senior climatologist David Phillips said May has had an average temperature of 16.5 C between 2 and 5 pm, compared to the normal of 19 C for that time. Phillips blamed the drop in temperature to the constant cloudy skies we've had this spring. ... [more]

1:30:40 PM US Extreme Weather Consistent with Climate Change
Voice of America - USA

But does the record US tornado season have anything to do with global climate change? "It is almost impossible for us to pinpoint these specific events...and say they were caused by climate change," says William Chamedies, an atmospheric scientist an [more]

1:10:50 PM Chicago Copes With Global Warming
Big Think

Global warming hasn't gone away, just out of the public eye. "Climate change is happening in both real and dramatic ways, but also in slow, pervasive ways," said commissioner Durbaugh. "We can handle it, but we do need to acknowledge it. ... [more]

12:42:16 PM Dry season to peak in June: BMKG
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

Indonesia is forecast to reach the peak of its dry season in June, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) said on Wednesday. “The peak will be in June through August, but several areas will start entering the dry season this May,”  [more]

10:21:14 AM Masdar Institute Discusses Special Report on Renewable Energy with IPCC
Zawya - United Arab Emirates

... institution that encourages students and faculty to work on research projects aimed at aiding Abu Dhabi's strategic growth objectives, which include the creation of clean technology, systems and policies aimed at mitigating global climate change. [more]

10:12:08 AM Global warming threatens anthrax cattle burial areas in Russian Arctic
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia

MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Global warming can uncover and expose anthrax cattle burial sites in the Arctic and cause the spread of dangerous infections, Russia's Emergencies Ministry warned on Wednesday. "Climatic anomaly impacts on permafrost .. [more]

8:36:11 AM Scattered few
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada

By Jurgen Kraus, Calgary Herald May 24, 2011 10:00 PM It is so nice that the Herald continues to print climate change denial letters en masse that reflect the work of three per cent of publishing climatologists. With so much misinformation, ... [more]

8:21:17 AM Joplin disaster spurs media whirlwind on link between climate change,
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA

Grist Magazine Just because the tornado-warming link is more tenuous doesn't mean that the subject of global warming should be avoided entirely when talking about tornadoes. The flattening of a city, and the death of 117 people -- "the single deadlie [more]

7:32:34 AM Climate change causing allergies, researchers say
California Watch (blog)

Apocalyptic images of global climate change include drought, rising sea levels, suffocating coral reefs and emaciated, drowning polar bears. But a new study points to some of the more immediate and mundane side effects of global warming: runny noses, [more]

6:40:53 AM Weather-Based Company Reviews Spring Rain Totals
Indiana Prairie Farmer

According to Indiana state climatology data, it was the rainiest April since 1895. If you remember that one- let us know- we've got a scoop! The situation is similar in surrounding states, although Indiana recorded the highest state average total. .. [more]

6:25:16 AM Severe weather of spring '11 not result of climate change
Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA

By Kareem Elgazzar, Staff Writer 12:38 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2011 No link has been determined between the recent severe weather that has swept through many Midwestern and southern states, and global climate change, according to two meteorological ... [more]

5:07:06 AM Joplin and Climate Change
Energy Collective

Climate scientists have for some time noted that Anthropogenic Global Warming will produce extreme weather events The question is how do we establish that a pattern of extreme weather events is a product of AGW? AGW skeptics can rightly point out tha [more]



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