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NCAR Installs Supercomputer For Critical Research On Climate Change And Severe Weather Boulder CO (SPX) May 13, 2008 
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. The supercomputer, known as a Power 575 Hydro- Cluster, is the first in a highly energy-efficient class of machines to be shipped anywhere in the world. Scientists at NCAR and across the country will use the new ... read more |
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McCain splits with Bush on climate change
Washington (AFP) May 12, 2008Republican White House candidate John McCain will Monday tack sharply away from President George W. Bush on climate change, saying he will not "shirk" from the need for US global leadership. The Arizona senator was due to propose a cap-and-trade system designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in remarks which will clearly separate him from the skepticism on global warming which has marked B ... more Key Climate Sensor Restored To NPOESS 
Washington DC (SPX) May 09, 2008A sensor considered critical in monitoring global climate will be restored to the first satellite scheduled to fly in the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) top officials from NOAA, NASA, and the Air Force said yesterday. At a meeting of the tri-agency NPOESS Executive Committee (EXCOM), the members agreed to restore the Total Solar Irradiance Senso ... more Cleaner air to worsen droughts in Amazon: study 
Paris (AFP) May 7, 2008Curbing a notorious form of industrial pollution may ironically harm Amazonia, one of the world's natural treasures and a key buffer against global warming, a study released Wednesday has found. Its authors see a strong link between a decrease in sulphur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and a rise in sea temperature in the northern Atlantic that was blamed for wreaking a devast ... more Australia needs years of heavy rainfall to crack drought: experts 
Sydney (AFP) May 5, 2008Australia will need several years of heavy rainfall to reverse the devastating effects of a drought that has battered farm production, the Bureau of Meteorology said in a report received Monday. The report came despite months of drenching rains spawned by the La Nina weather phenomenon in the agricultural east of the country that sparked optimism that the worst drought in 100 years might at ... more California may face long-term drought 
Sacramento (UPI) May 3, 2008 California officials said the state could be forced to ration water after the driest spring in at least 150 years. Water officials told the San Francisco Chronicle the state could be on the verge of a long-term drought. he Sierra Nevada snow pack is only 67 percent of normal and many reservoirs are at well-below-average levels. We're in a dry spell if not a drought," ... more |
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Paris (AFP) April 30, 2008Global warming could take a break in the next decade thanks to a natural shift in ocean circulations, although Earth's temperature will rise as previously expected over the longer term, according to a study published on Thursday in the British journal Nature. Climate scientists in Germany base the prediction on what they believe is an impending change in the Gulf Stream -- the conveyor belt ... more Did Dust Storms Make The Dust Bowl Drought Worse 
New York NY (SPX) May 01, 2008The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world. Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West. But the Dust Bowl drought was not meteorologically extreme by the standards of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. ... more Before Fossil Fuels, Earth's Minerals Kept CO2 In Check 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 01, 2008Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed. A joint University of Hawaii / Carnegie Institution study published in the advance online edition of Nature Geoscience links the pre-human stability to connections between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the ... more Global warming expert raises concerns for tourism industry 
Bangkok (AFP) April 29, 2008Nobel Peace Prize recipient Rajendra Pachauri Tuesday warned tourism industry chiefs they need to reduce their impact on climate change as consumers become more environmentally aware. "The tourism industry, for its own sake, will have to adapt," Pachauri said to more than 200 Asia Pacific airline, hotel and tourist company chief executives at a conference on tourism and climate change. ... more Mapping Sydney's Vulnerability To Climate Change 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2008A vulnerability assessment released by CSIRO and the Sydney Coastal Councils Group (SCCG) will help Sydney coastal councils understand their vulnerability to climate change and prepare to adapt to potential impacts. "The consequences of climate change in Sydney's coastal region will be driven as much by socio-economic factors and decision making as by climate hazards such as heat waves and storm ... more |
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London (AFP) April 23, 2008The international response to security threats posed by climate change has been "slow and inadequate", according to a report published Wednesday. According to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British security think tank, a failure to adequately prepare for this is on a par with neglecting the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation or terrorism. "In the next decades, climate ... more UN official says climate change pact on troubled path 
Singapore (AFP) April 22, 2008Agreement on a new climate change treaty could run the risk of failure at talks in Copenhagen next year if governments do not narrow their differences, a top UN environmental official said Tuesday. The result of this month's talks in Bangkok to discuss commitments to a road map for battling global warming did not bode well in the run-up to the 2009 meeting, said Achim Steiner, executive ... more Analysis: EU bashes Bush's climate plan 
Berlin (UPI) Apr 21, 2008U.S. President George W. Bush's policies to combat climate change have come under fire in Europe, with Germany's top energy policy official accusing the U.S. president of demonstrating "losership instead of leadership." Bush earlier this week in a speech on his government's climate protection policies laid out the plan to halt the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 "and ... more Climate change: Progress at polluters' talks, but obstacles ahead 
Paris (AFP) April 18, 2008Talks among major carbon emitters aimed at speeding negotiations towards a new pact on climate change ended Friday after making some headway but failing to remove roadblocks ahead of a summit in July. "We achieved a consensus on the need for long-term and medium-term goals for reducing greenhouse-house gases... but we have not quantified targets at this stage and we regret this," said France ... more Austria rethinks environmental policy in bid to meet Kyoto target 
Vienna (AFP) April 20, 2008Austria has been forced to reconsider its environmental policy after two reports indicated the renewable energy leader will likely fail to meet its Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions targets in 2012. The reports issued last week by the Federal Environmental Protection Bureau and the Austrian Court of Audit said Austria was running considerably above its benchmark 1990 emissions rate instead of ... more
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