Archive for ‘weather’
Drought-hit Cyprus considers importing water
January 9th, 2008
Drought-stricken Cyprus may import water to beat a crippling shortage that is threatening to tap the island’s reservoir reserves dry, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
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Winter Businesses Worry About Warm Weather
January 8th, 2008
Businesses that thrive on the snow are concerned about the warm temperatures
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Decision on listing polar bear postponed
January 8th, 2008
Federal officials said Monday that they will need a few more weeks to decide whether polar bears need protection under the Endangered Species Act because of global warming.
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UN climate chief to visit Antarctica
January 8th, 2008
The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the “frightening” possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday.
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Rare Winter Tornados Leave at Least 2 Dead
January 8th, 2008
A freak cluster of tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking out power, and leaving at least two people dead in Missouri.
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Mudslide Strikes San Diego
January 7th, 2008
A retaining wall gave way, leading to a mudslide in San Diego.
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Australia floods strand many
January 7th, 2008
Thousands of people remain stranded by some of the worst flooding eastern Australia has seen in 20 years.
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2008 to be in top 10 warmest years say forecasters
January 3rd, 2008
2008 will be slightly cooler than recent years globally but will still be among the top 10 warmest years on record since 1850 and should not be seen as a sign global warming was on the wane, British forecasters said.
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December warmer than usual
January 3rd, 2008
The average temperature was 2.5 degrees above the normal.
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2007 a year of weather records in U.S.
December 29th, 2007
When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. January was the warmest first month on record worldwide — 1.53 degrees above normal. It was the first time since record-keeping began in 1880 that the globe’s average temperature has been so far above the norm for any month of the year.
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Netherlands has another record warm year in 2007
December 28th, 2007
The average temperature in the Netherlands in 2007 matched 2006, the warmest year in 300 years, and the Dutch meteorological institute said it was a sign of global warming.
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Waking up to climate change
December 27th, 2007
2007 may go down as the year in which the world truly woke up to climate change. Most scientists no longer dispute that we’re in trouble, environment guru Al Gore won the Nobel peace prize, Australia prepared to sign the Kyoto protocol and an international meeting in Bali agreed on an environment roadmap. A summary of a green year.
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Seas could rise twice as high as predicted
December 16th, 2007
The world’s sea levels could rise twice as high this century as U.N. climate scientists have predicted, according to researchers who looked at what happened more than 100,000 years ago, the last time Earth got this hot.
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2007 among warmest years on record
December 13th, 2007
A vast swath of the United States was warmer than usual this year, leading to severe drought conditions and wildfires in the West and Southeast. Texas, the Lone Star state, stood alone, the only one to record below average temperatures.
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Global warming rapidly progresses
December 13th, 2007
Scientists say that this summer’s accelerated Arctic ice melt could be a sign that global warming has passed the tipping point
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