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Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Hrvoje Hranjski - Dec. 26 (News Report) - Many of the dead were women and children who drowned in their beds. Others scrambled to climb roofs to escape the overflowing rivers and muddy waters that carried dangerous debris and logs from nearby mountains. The logs were still floating off the coast. President Benigno Aquino III, who banned logging in February following previous flooding deaths that experts say were caused partly by deforestation and soil erosion, has ordered an investigation.

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Floods, Droughts Are 'New Normal' Of Extreme U.S. Weather Fueled By Climate Change, Scientists Say

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Deborah Zabarenko - May. 19 (News Report) - Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a "new normal" of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change, scientists and government planners said on Wednesday. "It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing," climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University told reporters.

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Afghanistan War: Fighting ends as winter begins

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ben Brody - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - American troops typically serve yearlong tours in Afghanistan, so they all must learn to operate in both the heat and the cold, even if the fighting largely subsides. The largest military bases in America are in places like Texas, California and the southeast — many soldiers garrisoned there have little experience in cold-weather soldiering.

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The Super La Nina and the Coming Winter

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Art Horn - Oct. 25 (News Report) - La Nina is the lesser-known colder sister of El Nino. La Nina chills the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean, and in turn cools the entire planet for one to two years or more. This chilling has the potential to bring bone-numbing cold to many parts of the world for this and the following winter. As a result, world energy demand may spike in the next one to two years as much colder weather hits many of the major industrial nations.

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Could This Be A Crime?

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

climatestorytellers.org - By Subhankar Banerjee - Aug. 26 (Special Report) - Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement. Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, for all little creatures that we don’t see... for all life. We need stories and actions from every part of our earth. So far, global warming communications have primarily focused on scientific information. I strongly believe that to engage the public, we need all fields of the humanities. It is to this end that I founded ClimateStoryTellers. And there is much action: globally, 350.org and Climate Justice Movement; nationally, organizations such as Center for Biological Diversity; and state-based initiatives such as New Energy Economy in New Mexico. These groups give us hope that a bold – not weak – climate movement will continue to move forward with renewed energy. Our task is to make the collective global voice louder and louder until ignoring such loud cacophony will not be an option by our governments. Global warming is not something we can solve with good behavior and healthy lifestyles. It will require major government action to control pollution–and–polluters and to start a low–carbon–society.

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Web Site Lets Public Track Alaska Volcano

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

avo.alaska.edu - Apr. 17 (News Report) - From his home in Nanwalek, Alaska, Vince Evans can stare across the water at Augustine Volcano as it pumps out clouds of ash and steam, but like many residents in the isolated village, Evans prefers to check the Internet for the latest on the erupting island mount.

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Deaths indicative of expanding turtle population

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

beaumontenterprise.com - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Texas bays are home to more green sea turtles than anyone thought, and perhaps more than in close to a century. At least they were.

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Hot Air

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - By Charles Homans - Jan. 08 (Special Report) - Skepticism is, of course, the core value of scientific inquiry. But the essay that Coleman published that week, on the Web site ICECAP, would have more properly been termed rejectionism. Coleman wasn’t arguing against the integrity of a particular conclusion based on careful original research—something that would have constituted useful scientific skepticism. Instead, he went after the motives of the scientists themselves. Climate researchers, he wrote, “look askance at the rest of us, certain of their superiority. They respect government and disrespect business, particularly big business. They are environmentalists above all else.”

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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 U.N. agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. Water is part of the complex web of factors that determine prosperity and stability, it said. Lack of access to water helps drive poverty and deprivation and breeds the potential for unrest and conflict, it warned.

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Drudge, Fox News again suggest a few days of cold weather trump climate change science

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Following the Drudge Report's lead, Fox News hosts Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity each suggested that, in Cavuto's words, a "massive snowstorm," which recently hit the East Coast, calls into question the scientific consensus on "global warming." However, climate scientists reject the notion that short-term changes in weather provide any evidence for or against the existence of climate change.

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Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Australia has been suffering its worst heatwave on record, the first time temperatures exceeded 110 F for 3 days running. It’s been so hot that on Thursday, the low at Melbourne airport was 87 F. Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification. The astonishing decade-long drought in southern Australia was declared ‘worst on record’ last year. My headline quote is from the UK’s Independent story, which notes: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is regarded as highly vulnerable. A study by the country’s blue-chip Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation identified its ecosystems as "potentially the most fragile" on earth in the face of the threat.

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Who'll start the rain?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Suzanne Bopp - Aug. 06 (Special Report) - China is probably the world's largest practitioner of cloud seeding, spending about $90 million a year. Now, eager to ensure rain comes before -- not during -- the Olympics, the Beijing Weather Modification Office plans to seed the clouds that float by beforehand, hoping to wash the pollution from the air and wring out any event-delaying precipitation.

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How Can We Avert Dangerous Climate Change?

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

arxiv.org - By James Hansen - Dec. 25 (Special Report) - We did not face up to the dark side of the industrial revolution until it was thrust in our face. London choked on smog. A river in the United States burned. Forests were damaged by acid rain. Fish died in many lakes. These problems were traced to pollutants from fossil fuels. We have solved or are solving those pollution problems, at least in developed countries. But we did not address them until they hit us with full force. That approach, to wait and see and fix the problems post facto, unfortunately, will not work in the case of global climate change. On the contrary, the inertia of the climate system, the fact that much of the climate change due to gases already in the air is still 'in the pipeline', and the time required for economically-sensible phase-out of existing technologies together have a profound implication. They imply that ignoring the climate problem at this time, for even another decade, would serve to lock in future catastrophic climatic change and impacts that will unfold during the remainder of this century and beyond.

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Media Frenzy and the Forgotten Refugees

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:55:46 -0700

Link TV - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - As hte California fires rage and millions of Americans are displaced, the US media has mobilized... but what about coverage of another serious displacement issue?

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Hurricane Dean: 1 Of 10 Most Intense Atlantic Hurricanes Ever Measured

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:42:43 -0700

The Daily Green - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Early this morning Hurricane Dean, after mercilessly intensifying over deep warm waters in the western Caribbean, slammed the Yucatan Peninsula around Chetumal as a Category 5 hurricane with winds upwards of 165 miles per hour ...

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The Climate of Denial Changes

Tue, 22 May 2007 07:58:43 -0700

Link TV - May. 22 (Special Report) - (VIDEO - 4:32) Scientists and governments agree that climate change is real. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms our fears, and news programs worldwide are presenting the facts. Polling graphics created by American University's School of Communication reveal how the largest pollution generating nations intend to deal with the problem. (Part of LinkTV's Global Pulse series: "a fast-moving overview of international news and events comparing reports by national broadcasters and dissecting the media spin -- your global news positioning service.") Sources: NBC and CBS from the U.S.; NHK, Japan; TV5, France; BBC, England; Once Noticias, Mexico.

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