News tagged with changing weather

Climate change is already having an impact across the US

Extreme weather, drought, heavy rainfall and increasing temperatures are a fact of life in many parts of the U.S. as a result of human-induced climate change, researchers report today in a new assessment. These and other ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (90) | comments 38

2001-2010 warmest decade on record: WMO

Climate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency said Friday, releasing data showing that 2001 to 2010 was the warmest decade on record.

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created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (34) | comments 176

Ecologists discover forests are growing faster

Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to be published the week of Feb. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that f ...

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Start of 2012, March shatter US heat records

(AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.

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created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 151

Weather records due to climate change: A game with loaded dice

The past decade has been one of unprecedented weather extremes. Scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany argue that the high incidence of extremes is not merely accidental. From the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (20) | comments 24

Humans may have helped the decline of African rainforests 3000 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large areas of rainforests in Central Africa mysteriously disappeared over three thousand years ago, to be replaced by savannas. The prevailing theory has been that the cause was a change ...

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created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

World temps maintain the heat of global warming

2011 is currently tied for the 10th hottest since records began in 1850 and Arctic sea ice has shrunk to record-low volumes this year, the U.N. weather office said Tuesday.

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created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 69

Say goodbye to cool summers: climate study

By 2050, the coolest summers in the tropics and parts of the northern hemisphere will still be hotter than the most scorching summers since the mid-20th century if global warming continues apace, according ...

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created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 43

Converging weather patterns caused last winter's huge snows

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate ...

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created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Poll: US belief in warming rises with thermometer

(AP) -- Americans' belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll.

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 18

Climate change hits home

Direct experience of extreme weather events increases concern about climate change and willingness to engage in energy-saving behaviour, according to a new research paper published in the first edition of the journal Nature Cl ...

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created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (19) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

Two Penn State University researchers have carried out one of the first-ever analyses of the effects of global warming on endangered primates. This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (17) | comments 5

Experts warn epic weather ravaging US could worsen

Epic floods, massive wildfires, drought and the deadliest tornado season in 60 years are ravaging the United States, with scientists warning that climate change will bring even more extreme weather.

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 64

What Weathermen Know About Climate Change

Climate change is a topic that impacts the weather not only globally, but also locally. While some people may be concerned about the melting ice sheets at the far corners of the Earth, what most really want ...

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created Jun 26, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 16

Why Europe's climate faces a stormy future

(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe is likely to be hit by more violent winter storms in the future. Now a new study into the effects of climate change has found out why.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 19 | with audio podcast