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10:54:24 PM Soggy spring deters drought; spring planting on schedule
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

Those regular rains "led to substantial improvement in soil moisture supplies, steam flows, and to a lesser degree, in lake levels," said Greg Spoden, a state climatologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. On Monday, May 7, ... [more]

10:54:24 PM Rain helpful, but hardly a dent in drought
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA

“The amount of precipitation we received today is about what we normally get in a week-to-10-day period in an average May,” said Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken. “It's a week's worth of precipitation. It's wonderful. It'll make things gree [more]

10:54:24 PM Don't Curse The Rain, It Depresses Allergens
KUOW News and Information - Seattle,WA,USA

Washington State Climatologist Nick Bond had a personal reason to investigate the correlation between rainfall and pollen. "I suffer from allergies to alder and birch," he says. "I noticed that when I am usually sneezing and sniffling in mid to late  [more]

9:38:02 PM Ireland Supports Govt On Climate Change
AllAfrica.com - Africa

The Irish support will be channelled through the EU initiative known as the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), and it raises the EU support for ESPS II from the previous 10.2 million to 15.2 million euros. Speaking after the signing ceremony, ... [more]

9:38:02 PM Scientists Calculate How Much Methane Dinosaurs Farted Out Per Year
Snuggies

by Max Eddy | 12:58 pm, May 7th, 2012 Methane is a leading greenhouse gas, and the producers of methane — including cows and other ruminants — are often singled out as a possible contributor to global climate change. However, it seems that they may . [more]

9:38:02 PM Vietnam's Climate Woes Ignite National Strategy
Reuters AlertNet

... Hailed as a development success story for lifting millions out of poverty and staying on track to meet all its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, Vietnam's future progress is severely threatened by the impact of global climate change. [more]

9:21:13 PM New research brings satellite measurements and global climate models closer
Phys.Org

The finding is important because it helps confirm that models that simulate global warming agree with observations, said Stephen Po-Chedley, a UW graduate student in atmospheric sciences who wrote the paper with Qiang Fu, a UW professor of atmospheri [more]

9:21:13 PM Climate Change This Week: Ancient Global Warming, Powering Houses With
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post (blog) Exploding carbon dioxide levels, marine dead zones, ocean acidification, rising temperatures? "Been there, done that," says Earth through the voices of fossil cells -- and it wiped out most life on the planet about 250 million  [more]

6:09:45 PM The Only Thing That Will Stop Global Warming Is A Massive Economic Downturn
The Business Insider - New York,NY,USA

That it would take an extreme economic downturn to slow the effects of global warming. The research conducted by José Tapia Granados and Edward Ionides of UM and Óscar Carpintero of the University of Valladolid in Spain is considered the first to ... [more]

6:09:45 PM The Facebook Addiction Test; Jurassic Farts Caused Global Warming
The AtlanticWire

Discovered: The official medical scale for Facebook addiction, dino farts caused global warming, the high risk of assisted reproduction techniques, and a crocodile big enough to eat humans. There's now an official medical scale for Facebook addiction [more]

6:09:45 PM Provocative Global Warming Billboard Removed After One Day
Chicagoist

Chicago-based Libertarian organization the Heartland Institute has canceled its billboard campaign comparing those who believe in global warming to Ted "Unabomber" Kaczynski, Charles Manson and Fidel Castro. The digital billboard of Kaczynski spent . [more]

6:09:45 PM Global Warming From...Dinosaurs?
Exchange

Anthropogenic climate change is so anthropomorphic. While we think we have a mighty impact on the atmosphere, sauropod dinosaurs millions of years ago shouldn't be left out of the pollution hall of fame - they alone could have produced enough methane [more]

3:50:17 PM The New Yorker: A Technological Solution to Global Warming?
The 4G speed means that you hit your cap even faster than you would on the

96), Michael Specter looks at the possible benefits and risks of “geoengineering,” the attempt to ameliorate global warming by deliberately altering the climate of the earth. For years, “even to entertain the possibility of human intervention on such [more]

3:50:17 PM Voyage to the 'frontline' of global warming
Mother Nature Network - Atlanta,GA,USA

When Cameron Dueck set sail to the Canadian arctic, he did so knowing the icy seas he was to about navigate had claimed scores of sailors. By David Watkins, AFPMon, May 07 2012 at 2:32 AM EST SEA ICE: While the loss of Arctic sea ice threatens wildli [more]

3:50:17 PM Dinosaurs the real old farts behind global warming
The Australian

DINOSAURS may have been partly to blame for climate change in their time because their diets meant they emitted vast clouds of the powerful global warming gas methane, British scientists say. The key culprits were the giant plant-eating sauropods, .. [more]

3:50:17 PM No denying global warming: From belief may come relief
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA

NIE "Star Search" op-ed on global warming. By Wesley Richardson of Colonial Forge High School. RISING temperatures are causing crop losses across America's heartland and resulting in widespread famine throughout the country. [more]

3:20:31 PM April's temperatures may be cooler than March's
Aurora Advertiser

“It's rare, but occasionally it occurs where March is warmer than April,” said Pat Guinan, extension climatologist with the University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture Program. “The numbers are indicating it's going to be very close, with both mont [more]

1:02:19 PM Study: Warming affects plant-growth cycles more than expected
CattleNetwork.com - Stanley,KS,USA

Maybe you believe in global climate change, or maybe you don't, but some scientists have moved on from the question of its existence to studying its potential effects. In a study reported in this month's edition of the journal Nature, researchers fro [more]

12:09:18 PM Global warming explained - by an old fart
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium

Giant dinosaurs could have cause the first global warming – with their flatulence. British scientists have meticulously calculated the carbon footprint of large herbivorous dinosaurs – sauropods – by scaling up the digestive wind of cows. [more]

12:09:18 PM Global warming heats up tornado debate
New Scientist - London,England,UK

Speculation is rife that a recent glut of killer tornadoes is a sign of rising temperatures. What's the evidence? LAST year was a particularly deadly year for tornadoes in the US, with the second highest death toll in 137 years. [more]

9:31:11 AM Obama Stump Speech Reflects More Modest Vision of America's Global Ambitions
Daily Beast - New York,NY,USA

Gone from the president's stump speech are calls for America to lead the world on global warming, or on anything else—a foreign-policy minimalism that acknowledges changes in global power. Listening to Barack Obama road-test his general election stum [more]

9:31:11 AM Palm Oil and Global Warming
Live Trading News

Indonesia has formally challenged the recent greenhouse gas analysis of Palm Oil issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying that Palm Oil-based bio-fuel is not qualified to join the renewable fuel program in the World's energy ... [more]

9:31:11 AM Voyage to the 'front line' of global warming
Phys.Org

Author Cameron Dueck poses for a picture in Hong Kong. When Dueck set sail to the Canadian arctic to witness the front line of climate change, he did so knowing the icy seas he was to about navigate had claimed scores of sailors. [more]

9:31:11 AM Global warming: Plants respond faster than expected
Summit County Citizens Voice

By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Many plants appear to be responding to global warming faster than anticipated by climate models, as trees leaf out and flower bloom on average about five to six days earlier for each degree (Celsius) of warming. [more]

8:51:16 AM Fired up: Warming season brings danger of wildfires with it
Purchase refinery to ease energy costs

About 80 percent of the lightning strikes in Alaska hit the Interior, because it's the state's warmest region in the summer, according to a paper by several local scientists published last year in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology. [more]

4:35:05 AM IES has sights on a greener future and global domination
The Herald

IN this week's SME Focus we learn how a Scottish expert on the contribution of buildings to global warming has used a partnership with a technology giant and office openings overseas to build a business with a global footprint. [more]

3:31:49 AM Global Warming Hysteria: “Brother Can You Spare A Dime” Time!
First Things

This is the GWH's gig: Economic downturn and even depression to “save the planet.” A new study claims that an economic contraction equivalent to the Great Depression is needed to keep us real cool. From the Science Daily story: The study, conducted b [more]

3:31:49 AM Global warming shows system must be changed
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia

“The business and political spheres have horizons too narrow and too limited in time to be able to deal with the challenges and complexities of global warming.” How we frame global warming is important. Is it simply a market failure that can then be  [more]



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