News tagged with heat wave
Related topics: climate change
Deadly heat waves are becoming more frequent in California
From mid July to early August 2006, a heat wave swept through the southwestern United States. Temperature records were broken at many locations and unusually high humidity levels for this typically arid region ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Congress considers major global warming measure
(AP) -- The last time Congress passed major environmental laws, acid rain was destroying lakes and forests, polluted rivers were on fire and smog was choking people in some cities.
Apr 19, 2009 |
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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.
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Heat waves could be commonplace in the US by 2039, Stanford study finds
Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United States in the next 30 years, according to a new study by Stanford University climate scientists.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 08, 2010 |
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Carbon dioxide is the missing link to past global climate changes
Increasingly, the Earth's climate appears to be more connected than anyone would have imagined. El Nino, the weather pattern that originates in a patch of the equatorial Pacific, can spawn heat waves and droughts ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Warmer planet temperatures could cause longer-lasting weather patterns
Whether it's never-ending heat waves or winter storms, atmospheric blocking can have a significant impact on local agriculture, business and the environment. Although these stagnant weather patterns are often ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Sound could save circuits: Researchers theorize acoustic waves may cool microelectronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Hot sounds" has one meaning to music fans and another to physicists. Count a team of researchers at Rice University among the latter, as they've discovered that acoustic waves traveling along ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Heat wave warms frigid Baltic Sea waters
A heat wave searing the Baltic region has warmed the usually frigid waters of the Baltic Sea to temperatures usually seen in more tropical climes, experts said Friday.
Jul 23, 2010 |
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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
Mar 25, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming
(AP) -- Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
(AP) -- This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 - the deadliest ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2010 |
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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. ...
Apr 22, 2012 |
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Oklahoma, Texas set heat records in July
(AP) -- Sweltering may have reached a new record last month, as Oklahoma racked up the country's highest monthly average temperature ever.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Determining how warm this summer really was
An unparalleled heat wave in eastern Europe, coupled with intense droughts and fires around Moscow, put Earth's temperatures in the headlines this summer. Likewise, a string of exceptionally warm days in July ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2010 |
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