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11:01:14 PM Climate change hardly visible in North America
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada

By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen May 6, 2011 When your lawn scorches or the geraniums croak, it may be premature to blame global warming. One of the world's top science journals says climate hasn't changed in most of North America -yet. ... [more]

9:56:41 PM Will Prize-Winning Novels Shift Attitudes on Global Warming?
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Fiction might be the best way to reach people on climate, said John Atcheson, a former Department of Energy senior policy analyst who has written on books and global warming at Climateprogress.org, a Center for American Progress Action Fund project.  [more]

9:56:41 PM The Boundless Executive State: From Global Warming to Sexual Harassment
Cato @ Liberty - Washington,DC,USA

Two days ago Cato held a book forum to mark the publication of an excellent new book, Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives, edited by Pat Michaels. I coauthored chapter one, which shows how the modern executive stat [more]

7:40:17 PM Climate change driving up food costs
United Press International

UPI/Stephen Shaver WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- Global climate change has already taken a toll on the world's food production, driving up the price of food by as much as 20 percent, a new study indicates. The study, published Thursday in the journal .. [more]

7:40:17 PM The Vatican takes on climate change: it's cheaper to fix now
Ars Technica - USA

By Eric Bangeman | Last updated: May 6, 2011 12:33 PM The Vatican Pontifical Academy of Sciences has just released a strongly worded report (PDF) on global climate change demanding in the strongest possible language that humans act decisively to aver [more]

6:42:46 PM Climate change lowering wheat, corn yields
Motors ...

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Global warming has lowered crop yields for corn and wheat between 3 and 5% since 1980, but not for soybeans and rice, a study published in the journal Science finds. "Climate changes are already exerting a considerable . [more]

3:51:10 PM Corporate leaders in a climate of disbelief
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Challenge ... the former Shell executive Ian Dunlop says businesses must take charge in the fight against global warming. Scepticism hung heavy in the air. At a packed Australian Institute of Company Directors lunch on climate change, the institute's [more]

3:51:10 PM Crop yields hit by global warming
Poder 360

A drop in the yield of some crops around the world was not caused by changes in rainfall but was because higher temperatures can cause dehydration, prevent pollination and lead to slowed photosynthesis, the new study says. Wheat and corn yields were  [more]

1:31:29 PM Government Agencies Respond to Global Warming Challenge…Sort Of
Triple Pundit - San Francisco,CA,USA

By RP Siegel | May 6th, 2011 0 Comments Pursuant to President Obama's Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance, the Federal Government just released its first-ever comprehensive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) ... [more]

11:51:45 AM Jakarta is Potential Waterspout
BeritaJakarta.com

"The light rain with 0.1-5 millimeters per day," said Harry Tirto Djatmiko, Head of Climatology Meteorology and Geophysics Agency for Information Sector (BMKG) to beritajakarta.com, Friday (5/6). According to him, the rain caused by low pressure in . [more]

7:08:23 AM Take My Degree Back
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA

... of these threats to academic freedom have targeted scholars who work in such sensitive areas as Middle Eastern studies, labor studies, or climatology. ... [more]

6:35:07 AM Indonesian Q2 coal output seen up almost 7 pct versus Q1 -assoc
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

... offering a timely boost to the country's agricultural and mineral sectors, the Climatology, Meteorology, and Geophysics Agency has said. ... [more]

4:25:28 AM It's almost summer, we can start believing in climate change again
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA

But a study in this month's Psychological Science confirms that your average schmo is more likely to believe in global climate change on unseasonably warm days than unseasonably cold ones. That's true even after controlling for political affiliation  [more]

4:25:28 AM ADB Board of Governors meet
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam

... bank governors and representatives from major economic and banking groups in the world and non-government organisations, focused on issues relating to economic development, inflation and efforts to cope with global climate change. ... [more]

4:16:59 AM Weather Agency Predicts Whirlwind to Hit Jakarta
Jakarta Globe - Jakarta,Indonesia

Officials at the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency asked the people of Jakarta to stay alert as it was possible a whirlwind would hit the ... [more]

4:07:31 AM Rain, rain won't go away on time
Times of India - India

The area, a climatologist explained, needs to have anticyclones, which are high-pressure circulation systems that increase the air pressure of the surface, causing calm weather. "Furthermore, there has to be a lack of moisture in the area," the ... [more]

3:11:51 AM Say bye bye to La Nina, hello to storms (KIRO)
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Climatologists with the National Center for Environmental Prediction say La Nina is finally winding down, meaning our colder-than-usual weather won't be sticking around forever. Next up in the weather cycle? A neutral period of climate patterns throu [more]

2:36:53 AM Vatican Science Panel Calls Attention to the Threat of Glacial Melt
Scripps Oceanography News

"The widespread loss of snow and ice in the mountain glaciers is one of the most visible changes attributable to global climate change. The disintegration of many small glaciers in the Himalayas is most disturbing to me since this region serves as th [more]



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