Majority of Climate Change News Stories Focus on Uncertainty: Study
"About eight in 10 stories contain some discussion of uncertainties and risk, according to Oxford analysis"
Source: Guardian, 09/18/2013
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"Report: Climate Change Intensified 2012 Record Heat In U.S."
"Manmade climate change played a substantial role in the exceptional warmth in the eastern U.S. during the spring of 2012, a major NOAA-led report concludes. Not only that, it greatly increased the odds of the punishing heat that baked the north central and northeast U.S. during the following summer."
Source: Capital Weather Gang, 09/06/2013
"'Heat Days' In Schools Becoming More Common"
"CHICAGO -- When city students arrived for the first day of school under the blazing temperatures of a Midwest heat wave, staff greeted them with some unusual school supplies: water bottles, fans and wet towels to drape around their necks."
Source: AP, 09/04/2013
"Study Ties Global Warming ‘Hiatus’ to Pacific Cooldown"
"Scientists probing the mystery of the so-called 'global warming hiatus' may have made a breakthrough. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a persistent area of unusually cool sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean could explain why, despite ever-increasing amounts of manmade greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global average surface temperatures have increased at a slower rate during the past 15 years."
Source: Climate Central, 08/29/2013
"Mosquitoes Are Worse This Summer in Parts Of US"
"The tiny mosquito all too often has man on the run. And this summer, it seems even worse than usual."
Source: AP, 08/21/2013
"Coastal Cities Face $1 Trillion Floods By 2050: Study"
"In less than 40 years from now the cost to the world's biggest coastal cities from flooding is expected to have risen to $1tn – 0.7% of the value of the entire world economy in 2012."
Source: Guardian, 08/20/2013
"Experts Surer Than Ever of Manmade Global Warming"
"OSLO -- Climate scientists are surer than ever that human activity is causing global warming, according to leaked drafts of a major UN report, but they are finding it harder than expected to predict the impact in specific regions in coming decades."
Source: Reuters, 08/19/2013
"CDC: Heat Wave the Deadliest Extreme Weather Event"
"Heat waves are the deadliest of extreme weather events, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week."
Source: CBS News, 08/12/2013
"Sobering New Climate Report for California"
"'An immediate and growing threat.' That’s how California’s lead environmental agency — and the Governor’s office — describe climate change in the latest in a series of periodic reports on the subject."
Source: KQED, 08/09/2013
NOAA 2012 Climate Change Report: Rising Seas, Snow Melt, More Warming
"WASHINGTON -- A new massive federal study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and melting Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheets, all broke or nearly broke records, but temperatures only sneaked into the top 10."
Source: AP, 08/07/2013
