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Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Friday, June 13, 2014

Indian Ocean Dipole set to triple frequency of floods, bushfires and droughts

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Climate change and extreme weather is likely to hit the Indian Ocean rim countries much harder over the coming century. That is the conclus...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

Water Commission closure announced in 2014 Budget as Drought approaches

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The speeding up and movement south of the Westerlies is bad news for farmers reliant on winter rainfall over the southern part of Australi...

Australia becoming drier, Antarctica colder due to Westerly winds speeding up

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The Southern Annular Mode consists of Westerly winds that blow continuously over the southern ocean, helping to insulate the southern cont...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Climate Geo-engineering study on sulphate injection shows Hydrological disruption to rain and severe drought

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While politicians have effectively dithered on robust action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the last 20 years we are hearing more a...
Monday, March 4, 2013

East Africa drought in 2011 partially attributed to climate change

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Scientists from the UK's Met Office have researched the causes of the 2011 East African drought and found human caused climate change wa...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Obama urged to use Clean Air Act after USA experiences hottest year on record

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Taking action on Climate Change is looming for President Obama. The United States experienced it's warmest year on record in 2012 accord...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Climate change driving US Drought conditions towards a megadrought?

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The widespread and persistent drought in the US during 2011-2012 has expanded according to the US Drought Monitor as reported on Climate C...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Changes in extent and intensity of wildfire linked to Climate change

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A new international scientific study lead by a researcher from the University of Utah links extreme fire weather to increasing temperatures ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Drying trend in Australia still evident despite wettest two year period on record

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Back-to-back La Niña events has produced the wettest two year period on record for Australia according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). T...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Climate change increasing Canada's boreal forest mortality reducing carbon sink capacity

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Climate change induced drought and water stress is increasing tree mortality in Canada's boreal forests, particularly in western Canada,...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Extreme weather, risk management and adaptation in a warming climate - latest IPCC report

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Over the weekend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events an...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Climate change, Water Security and drought in the Mediterranean region

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A new study by NOAA - the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - has highlighted that climate change is a major contributor t...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Climate change blamed in extreme shift from drought to flood in China

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An extreme shift in weather in June across much of southern and eastern China has been put down to the effects of global warming and climate...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Murray Darling Basin Plan needed despite floods says Conservation Foundation

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While flood waters continue to rage in Queensland with more rain continuing to fall, debate on the Murray Darling Basin is stepping up. Floo...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Climate scepticism, anthropogenic global warming and drought in south east Australia

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With the release of the CSIRO report on Climate variability and change in south-eastern Australia ( CSIRO: South East Australia becoming d...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

CSIRO: South East Australia becoming drier, Global Warming implicated

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Caption: Figure 1. Rainfall deciles across Australia for 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2009; deciles based on climatology from 1900 to 2009 ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Study predicts Extreme Drought conditions worsening globally with climate change

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Extreme Drought and aridity is likely to increase within decades across much of Africa, Australia, North and South America, South west Asia...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

2009 set to become the Fifth hottest year on Record, in the Hottest Decade

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2009 is likely to be the fifth warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with the current decade being the ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Global Warming major factor in Drought increasing globally

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Image Label: This depiction of linear trends in the Palmer Drought Severity Index from 1948 to 2002 shows drying (reds and pinks) across m...