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11:38:25 PM Some Dooly County Wells Run Dry
13wmaz - GA,USA

The same thing the mobile home park needs to get things running again. Mayor West says a new city well would cost nearly a half million dollars. He hopes to have one installed within the next year. State Climatologist, David Stooksbury, says rainfall [more]

11:33:51 PM AMS Presentation July 2011
AssociatedPress -

Presentation of the paper "Assessing the urban heat island signal in the US Historical Climatology Network monthly temperature data" by Z. Hausfather, MJ Menne, D. Jones, R. Broberg, T. Masters, and CN Williams Jr. at the 19th Conference on Applied . [more]

11:33:51 PM Is urbanization causing urban-area weather stations to distort US
Mountain Xpress - Asheville,NC,USA

Mountain Xpress (blog) This 15-minute video — of a presentation given last month at the 19th Conference on Applied Climatology in Asheville — is for weather wonks, but if you're interested in understanding the impacts of urban areas on climate measur [more]

9:40:45 PM Global Warming: Fox News Separates Fact From Fiction
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

So normally I wouldn't have seen this August 6 "Fox and Friends" piece on global warming (sorry -- you'll have to view a commercial to see it). But the media watchdog group Media Matters for America contacted me for my comments on it. ... [more]

8:54:44 PM Usaid's Steinberg On Aid in a Changing Global Landscape
AllAfrica.com - Africa

We've applied tough standards of selectivity, focusing our effort with depth and scale on food security under the Feed the Future Initiative, the Global Health Initiative, Global Climate Change Initiative, democracy and governance promotion, ... [more]

8:35:53 PM Grand Traverse officials 'not drinking the global-warming Kool-Aid'
Michigan Messenger

“I think we are being sold a bill of goods on that and I'm not drinking the global warming Kool-Aid,” Commissioner David Bieganowski, a local attorney and Green Lake township trustee told the paper. Local officials don't need to go to the polar ice . [more]

8:35:53 PM Defender of California Global Warming Law to Speak at American Renewable ...
RenewableEnergyWorld.com - Peterborough,NH,USA

Steyer helped to defeat California Proposition 23 last year, a ballot initiative funded by corporate interests to suspend the state's groundbreaking 2006 global-warming law, which aims to reduce the state's emissions of greenhouse gases down to 1990  [more]

6:13:16 PM Groups concerned U.Va. will turn over documents in global warming case
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Anita Kumar Four groups say they are worried the University of Virginia may unnecessarily disclose private correspondence from scientists in the case involving the work of former professor Michael Mann. The state's flagship university has fought . [more]

4:55:20 PM Putting an Arctic Scientist on Ice
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

... received considerable media attention when they were presented because it was the first (but not the last) recorded instance of polar bears drowning as the sea ice retreated, a phenomenon that's intricately connected with global climate change. . [more]

4:55:20 PM Do You Agree with Al Gore's Rant About Anti-Global Warming "Pseudoscience"?
SodaHead News

(A survey of peer-reviewed abstracts on the subject of global climate change published between 1993-2003 found that not a single one rejected the consensus position that global warming is man-caused.) Whittington himself goes on to rant against the . [more]

4:55:20 PM What can we do about disasters?
Facing South

The news is filled with vivid stories of disasters, both sudden and -- as with the case of incremental global climate change -- slow-moving. At first, the calamities are blamed on "Acts of God," natural events outside our control. ... [more]

3:01:40 PM Past Climate Change Caused Largest Extinction of Life on Earth Killing
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

International Business Times By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 11, 2011 9:13 AM EDT The devastating destruction of conifer forests about 250 millions ago was caused by pathogenic tree-killing fungi, the growth of which was triggered by global climat [more]

3:01:40 PM The Faces of Climate Change
Hirshhorn

The Manus islanders are illustrations of a troubling trend: indigenous groups detrimentally affected by global climate change, a phenomenon they've played little part in creating. The new “Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate .. [more]

3:01:40 PM Perils for PM in hanging on to surplus
The Australian

At the same time, dogged persistence with the carbon tax at a time when it is perceived other nations are not moving towards a global climate change solution, and it is the wrong time to hit the economy with a new impost and a huge compensation bill, [more]

1:17:44 PM 2100: Climate Change and Global Warming Expectancy
GroundReport - New York,NY,USA

by David Stephen August 11, 2011 From arguments roaring about global warming legitimacy and points highlighted for, it cannot be concluded what may come in the future in relation to climate change. Recent anomaly in weather conditions in certain plac [more]

12:00:57 PM Clarkson, NYSERDA, NASA offer climate change workshop for state teachers
Watertown Daily Times - Watertown,NY,USA

Since Monday, Clarkson has been hosting a NASA-funded workshop to help middle and high school science teachers better teach students about global climate change. The workshop, which is supported by NYSERDA and attended by 15 teachers from across the  [more]

10:52:04 AM Kiss goodbye to hot summer in Cumbria, says weather expert
Carlisle News - Carlisle,England,UK

The observer, who supplies records of his findings to the Met Office, operates a professional climatology station. He has records stretching back to 1960 from a weather observation post at Carlisle's former RAF 14MU base. He said: “It's very changeab [more]

7:47:08 AM Global warming: Can species be saved with relocations?
Summit County Citizens Voice

By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — As global warming causes ever-greater disruption to plants and animals, conservation biologists are having serious discussions about how and when to relocate species so they they can survive for the long-term. ... [more]

7:37:01 AM July in Windsor hottest month in Canadian history
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada

By Brian Cross, The Windsor Star August 11, 2011 12:00 AM After comparing data from historically hot locations throughout the country, Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips believes there's never been a month anywhere in Canada hotte [more]

3:39:11 AM Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe
Human Events - Washington,DC,USA

by Audrey Hudson Polar bears drowning in an Alaskan sea because the ice packs are melting—it's the iconic image of the global warming debate. But the validity of the science behind the image—presented as an ignoble testament to our environment in ... [more]

3:39:11 AM Global Warming divides County Commission
UpNorthLive.com - Traverse City,Michigan,USA

TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Global Warming was a hot topic at Wednesday night's Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners meeting. The County's Climate Action Plan was cast into the spotlight. Some commissioners feel that wording in the plan promotes ... [more]

2:02:00 AM Opposing view: Washington won't solve our drought
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

The Texas State Climatologist calls it the most severe one-year drought on record. Last year, my hometown of Clarendon, Texas, recorded 27.95 inches of precipitation. This year, we received a total of 2.08 inches through Aug. 10. ... [more]

2:02:00 AM Homes saved from Central Australian bushfire
ABC Online - Australia

Climatologist Max Gonzalez says the near record high temperatures in Central Australia at the moment will continue to increase the fire danger over the next month. "We actually have had a lot of slow moving high pressure systems where we tend to ... [more]

2:02:00 AM Gladewater initiates mandatory water restrictions
News Journal - Longview,TX,USA

On a day when the state drought's most extreme effects entered portions of Gregg and Upshur counties, the city of Gladewater initiated mandatory water use restrictions and a Texas A&M climatologist classified 2011 as the worst drought in state histor [more]

1:24:25 AM Major cities in Finland stress responsibility to combat global warming
China View, Beijing, China

HELSINKI, Aug.10 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of Finland's six biggest cities on Wednesday stressed the responsibility of cities in combating global warming and vowed to decrease their cities' energy consumption. According to local media reports on Wednesday, [more]

1:24:25 AM Our view: What's going down? Not temperatures, or AC bills
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

While scientists caution that no individual extreme weather event can be conclusively linked to global warming, this summer is consistent with computer-model predictions of hotter days, warmer nights and more severe droughts. Here's one way to think  [more]

12:07:06 AM Global warming is melting Al Gore's brain
Daily Caller

Gore is abandoning it now because it disproves his hypothesis that humans are causing global climate change. Gore laments the fact that empirical observations are contradicting the “shared reality” he covets on his carefully chosen cocktail circuit.  [more]

12:07:06 AM Vutia's story
Fiji Times - Fiji

It ends on September 30 and will feature in Durban, South Africa when global climate change talks take place there later this year. Professional photography is at the centre of the Pacific exhibition, where the work of some 20 students is on show. .. [more]



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