Rainfall alert on global warming

"Global warming will exacerbate rainfall extremes - both deluges and droughts - more than most climatologists have predicted, according to a study of satellite data and climate models in the journal Science today.Experts agree that heavy rain will fall more frequently in a...

Snow, Bikinis and Global Warming

ATLANTA, Georgia, January 24, 2008 Snow hit Atlanta last weekend, prompting flurries of Twitter updates and text messages. Yes, it was snowing. In Atlanta. Worth noting, however, is that two weeks prior, the Moreland Ave. Target had put gloves, hats and other winter garb...

2007 second hottest year on record

New NASA data reveals one of the more disturbing 2007 end-of-year records.  It's getting hot in here, and that's the inconvenient truth."The year 2007 was tied for the second-hottest on record, according to...

Climate Change: "Many, Many Smoking Guns"

"When the UN-organized Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents its projections for global warming and future climate changes tomorrow, the report's hallmark will be a far greater level of certainty and precision than what was expressed in the last IPCC...

2006: the year that global warming came into sharp focus

"It has been a hot year. The average temperature in Britain for 2006 was higher than at any time since records began in 1659. Globally, it looks set to be the sixth hottest year on record. The signs during the past 12 months have been all around us. Little winter snow in the...

Animations Show Global Warming's Potential Effects on Coastal Cities

Animations show the anticipated flooding in major U.S. cities as global warming raises sea levels. There will be stronger hurricanes. Even relatively weak storms will be able to do great damage.

climate change is with us -- a decade ago it was conjecture

To stabilise atmospheric CO2 concentrations, CO2 emissions need to be cut by 70 to 80 percent.

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