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10:42:02 PM Will global warming make the planet more humid, too?
Slate

By Brian PalmerPosted Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at 6:01 PM ET Will global warming make it more humid? Hot, muggy weather created dangerous conditions for residents of the South and Midwest on Tuesday, and there were reports of heat-related deaths. ... [more]

10:42:02 PM Cracking the debt ceiling will increase global warming, say Tea Party
Comfortably

The Spoof (satire) Titled "Debt, Doubt, Climate Change & Chump Change," the report contends that even minor cracks in the debt ceiling will allow a significantly extra amount of UV rays from the sun to enter Earth's atmosphere and contribute to globa [more]

9:16:50 PM On Experts and Global Warming
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA

Consider, for example, current discussions about climate change, specifically about whether there is long-term global warming caused primarily by human activities (anthropogenic global warming or AGW). All creditable parties to this debate recognize  [more]

9:16:50 PM Poll: Belief in Man-Made Global Warming Plummets
Fox News (blog)

AP Graphic NEW YORK, July 11 (UPI) -- Three-quarters of Americans say natural disasters are on the increase, but fewer than ever believe the climate is heating up, a new poll finds. And only half say they have prepared for calamity by stockpiling thr [more]

9:16:50 PM Climate Change Drives Disease in Crucial Seaweed Species, Study Finds
Reuters - NY,USA

By Guest Writer at SolveClimate By Katherine Bagley, SolveClimate News Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming have already been linked to coral reef deaths, destructive storms, shifting species distributions and harmful algal blooms. ... [more]

9:16:50 PM Climate change could kill one in 10 species by end of the century
Independent

By the end of the century, one in 10 species could be on the verge of extinction because of the effects of global warming, a study has found. The findings support the view that the earth is currently experiencing a global mass extinction where the ra [more]

6:22:34 PM Why this drought will be way, way worse than the last one
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA

by Jess Zimmerman Climatologists say the great drought of 2011 is starting to look a lot like the one that hit the nation in the early to mid-1950s. That, too, dried a broad part of the southern tier of states into leather and remains a record breake [more]

4:50:40 PM 24 Hours on Planet Gore
National Review Online - USA

“Gore seems to think that the facts and the evidence [of climate change], had President Obama spoken about that, would have changed things,” said Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. “Quite honestly, we now have a lo [more]

4:50:40 PM Six Decades of River Flows in the US Northern Rocky Mountains
CO2 Science Magazine - Tempe,AZ,USA

... which period, in their words, "covers the majority of reported global climate change due to anthropogenic influences as defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report, which concluded that climate change over the past half [more]

3:53:15 PM Climate Change Policy And Data Manipulation
TheStreet.com - USA

By OilPrice.com 07/12/11 - 08:48 AM EDT The whole issue of climate change and government policy in response to global warming remains an issue of immense importance to the metals industry. As major consumers of energy and significant emitters of CO2  [more]

3:52:46 PM 14 US States Currently Wracked by Crippling Droughts
Treehugger - New York,NY,USA

And even though the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1950s were drier, modern day droughts of the last few years are warmer -- more like the kind of droughts you'd expect to see with global warming, according to leading climatologists. ... [more]

2:19:21 PM Cranston Resident Studying Interaction Of Zooplankton And Global Warming
Patch.com

By Andrew Metcalf | Email the author | 9:16am Cranston resident Leanne Elder is making strides in the global scientific community with her global-warming related study of Phronima, tiny krill-like crustaceans that shut down their metabolism and enter [more]

11:28:51 AM Ethiopian lake reveals history of African droughts
Planet Earth - Swindon,Wiltshire,UK

A team led by the University of Aberystwyth used seismic surveys and sediment cores to work out how the lake's water levels has varied over the past 17000 years and linked this to evidence for global climate change. Understanding how and why rainfall [more]

8:57:25 AM Summer's cauldron set to boil
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada

By Dylan Kristy, The Windsor Star July 12, 2011 12:00 AM The "sultry and oppressive heat" that has grown to define Essex County summers may be just around the corner, says an Environment Canada senior climatologist. "During the middle of the week you [more]

7:50:48 AM Global warming disease
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

How about a planet undergoing scientifically diagnosed global warming, with the predicted violent weather event symptoms: tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, forest fires, reduced agricultural productivity, with rising food prices and tropical . [more]

6:24:14 AM Natural Gas: The Transition Fuel with ....
GhanaWeb - Accra,Ghana

For some time now, the World has been grappling with the adverse impacts of global climate change. Global climate change has two segments - global warming and global cooling. These adverse impacts of global climate change include the melting of the i [more]

4:49:54 AM Weather advisory issued
Online Athens - Athens,GA,USA

The high temperatures are normal for this time of year, according to state Climatologist David Stooksbury. But the summer is shaping up to be unusually hot, even for the Peach State, according to Stooksbury. Through Monday, this summer's average dail [more]

3:03:54 AM Heat will come in waves for the next three months
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,ON,Canada

Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips says his agency is expecting much more hot weather for the next three months, the remainder of summer. Hamilton has had five days, including Monday, with the temperature above 30 C — three days in [more]

2:54:43 AM Wetter, warmer weather
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

The Times seems unwilling to correlate the changing weather patterns this new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data brings to light to greenhouse gas-induced global warming. Despite the fact that the majority of atmospheric ... [more]

12:24:32 AM A greener outback
Financial Times

Australians are known for many things, but conspicuous concern for global climate change is not one of them. Oilmen and outback miners leave their mark on both the country's pollution and its politics. Australians on average spew out more CO2 than .. [more]

12:24:32 AM Scientists advance climate science literacy
Oxford

"The overall goal of CLiPSE is to educate students, teachers and the public about global climate change and its impacts, said David Rutherford, UM assistant professor of public policy leadership." [more]

12:21:47 AM Preparedness helps us manage through storms
WALB-TV - Albany,GA,USA

Most of our area is still listed under an exceptional drought, but that could change this week when the state climatologist updates the conditions. The one thing that would really help end the drought is a tropical storm. It is that time of year. ... [more]



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