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Climate change may create price volatility in the corn market

By the time today's elementary schoolers graduate from college, the U.S. corn belt could be forced to move to the Canadian border to escape devastating heat waves brought on by rising global temperatures. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Feds: 'Meterological March madness' mostly random

(AP) -- Freak chance was mostly to blame for the record warm March weather that gripped two-thirds of the country, with man-made global warming providing only a tiny assist, a quick federal analysis shows.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters

(AP) -- Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

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

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.

Space & Earth / Environment

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

Weird weather: heat, twisters, 250K tons of snow

(AP) -- America's weather is stuck on extreme.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 52

Russian heat wave 'had both manmade and natural causes'

(PhysOrg.com) -- The heat wave that struck western Russia in summer 2010, causing 55,000 deaths, was caused by a combination of manmade and natural factors. However, the frequency of occurrence of such heat ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 10

Time of year important in projections of climate change effects on ecosystems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year's heat wave that gripped the U.S. Midwest, happen in June or July, August or September?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Climate and the statistics of extremes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss mathematicians have shown that the risk of extreme climate events is largely underestimated. They are developing a model for better understanding the impact of climate change.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 20

Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record

(AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 37

When it comes to hurricanes, climate change effects may be 'a wash'

In some ways, hurricane season 2011, which ended Wednesday, seems to fit right in with the wild weather wreaking havoc in recent years - a string of severe floods, droughts and heat waves that the world's top climate scientists ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 12

UN scientist: fighting climate change saves costs

(AP) -- The U.N.'s top climate scientist cautioned climate negotiators Wednesday that global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but containing carbon emissions will have a host ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Recent advance in detonation theory

A detonation wave is a chemical reaction wave propagating at the velocity of a shock wave along the explosive charge. There is great demand for a detonation model that can accurately simulate the detonation process, which ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Science panel: Get ready for extreme weather (Update)

(AP) -- Top international climate scientists and disaster experts meeting in Africa had a sharp message Friday for the world's political leaders: Get ready for more dangerous and "unprecedented extreme weather" ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Topsy-turvy wine weather makes grape sorters shine

A topsy-turvy growing season, which zigzagged from drought to hail to heat wave, produced a distressingly mixed crop in Bordeaux this year -- but gave optical grape sorters a chance to shine.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0