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11:57:13 PM Drought Conditions Spell Trouble for Wildlife Survival
KXTS-TV - El Paso,TX,USA

Things are even worse in southern New Mexico, where climatologists place in the "exceptional" drought category and in their vocabulary, exceptional is as bad as a drought gets. The dry conditions are affecting wildlife here in the Borderland. ... [more]

7:48:23 PM ISU Announces Speaker Series Line-Up
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA

The series will also feature professionals in finance, education, climatology and the media. Watergate figure John Dean heads the line-up for this year's Indiana State University Speakers Series which will also feature noted professionals in educatio [more]

7:48:23 PM Storm tracks are heading for the poles, satellite data suggests
Ars Technica - USA

However, analysis of 25 years worth of data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project now indicates that this shift is probably already taking place. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (or ISCCP) operates a network [more]

6:22:03 PM Friday Finds: SpongeBob's Global Warming Conspiracy
unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog)

Fox personality Gretchen Carlson and others chastise the cartoon for looking at only “one point of view”—that is, humans are the primary cause of global warming by releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the air. Though this view is held by [more]

5:51:47 PM Plan for Nigeria climate change commission sparks debate - papers
Reuters AlertNet

Eleri said the law would provide room for agricultural insurance cover for Nigerian farmers in the event of produce losses due to the escalating global climate change challenges, including flash floods and droughts that are causing serious havoc to t [more]

4:14:40 PM Atikokan already showing the signs of global climate change
Atikokan Progress - Atikokan,Ontario,Canada

by Atikokan Progress on August 12, 2011 Climate change projections suggest this area will get warmer, and historical weather data for Atikokan suggest that is indeed what is happening. Local MNR biologist Brian Jackson has compiled 50 years worth of  [more]

3:19:55 PM Mitchell flood mocks litany of global warming excuses
Herald Sun - Melbourne City,Victoria,Australia

Excuse me for doubting my eyes, but Victoria's former Labor government did tell us such floods would rarely happen again, thanks to global warming. That's why we couldn't have a dam on the Mitchell River that's now flooding Bairnsdale, you see. ... [more]

1:58:23 PM Teachers attend climate change workshop at Clarkson
Assembly

POTSDAM -- This week, Clarkson University hosted 15 of the best teachers from across New York State for a global climate change workshop. The teachers, who were selected through a highly competitive application process, engaged in project-based ... [more]

1:46:23 PM Ten years after Korey Stringer's death, heat-related deaths still plague ...
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

In a recent Los Angeles Times story, climatologist Andrew Grundstein said the annual death rate during football practices — which was about one per year from 1980-94 — has roughly tripled to 2.8 deaths per year. What can be done to limit the risk of  [more]

12:07:57 PM Government Blames Food Crisis On 'Global Warming'
Coastweek - Mombasa,Kenya

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka said that Africa is faced with myriad challenges including global climate change that has caused famine in various parts of the continent, particularly the Horn of Africa. Musyoka thanked the international community for [more]

11:26:56 AM Local Communities and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Canada.com - Canada

Climatologists warn that we cannot exceed 2.0 C without invoking "dangerous climate change". To maintain any reasonable measure of safety, they estimate that 32.0 Gt of carbon dioxide is the maximum we can emit by 2020. However, if present trends ... [more]

8:48:43 AM A Dim Light on Global Warming
Project Syndicate

But it's worth taking a closer look at the premise that banning things is the smartest way to tackle global warming. Let's be clear: we do need to tackle climate change. But this does not mean that we should just cut all emissions. ... [more]

8:48:43 AM Man-made global warming debate needs level playing field
Merritt News

If there were a time for global warming skeptics to be rubbing it in the noses of global warming proponents (let's call them warmists), now would be a good time. At least in BC, where a delayed summer has finally come, only to revert back to cooler . [more]

8:09:04 AM 'Global Warming and Political Intimidation'
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA

In the late 1990s, Raymond Bradley, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, collaborated with two researchers on a pair of studies that altered the dialogue on climate change. The studies, a collaboration between Bradley, ... [more]

7:32:47 AM Hoax or Truth? Global Warming 'Scam' Debate Rages
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

The devastation of conifer forests about 250 million years ago was caused by tree-killing fungi whose growth was triggered by global climate change, says the study, which will appear in the print edition of the journal Geology in September. ... [more]

4:23:28 AM Global climate change campaign launched in VN
VOVNews.vn - Hanoi,Vietnam

The global campaign on climate change, 350.org, was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on August 11. This year's campaign themed “Moving planet” will include many activities such as climate camps to provide training on climate change and help for residents [more]

4:23:28 AM Is global climate change behind weather problems?
Estevan Mercury - Estevan,Saskatchewan,Canada

However, in Saskatchewan the question about what global climate change may ultimately bring must be on the minds of many of us in light of what we have faced the last couple of years. Flooding of Highway 1 in the summer of 2010, torrential rains ... [more]

4:23:28 AM Adapting to climate change in Costa Rica
Tico Times - San José,Costa Rica

Outside of the US Tea Party, conspiracy enthusiasts and a few experts and legislators bankrolled by coal and oil companies, there are few who still doubt that the phenomenon of global climate change is real. And even among some of these skepties, ... [more]

12:00:15 AM Congress doesn't believe global warming is a security threat
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA

It found that global warming will further destabilize already-volatile parts of the world and should be considered in national security planning. But congressional Republicans dismissed the report as "a waste of resources." Global warming is enough o [more]



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