Extreme Weather

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) Summer of 2016 was not only hotter than any summer on record, i.e. since 1880. We have enough proxies for global average temperature to know that it was hotter than any summer since at least 1016, when Genoa launched a campaign against Muslim Sardinia and Norway not only got […]

Extreme Weather

Baghdad facing Invasion of . . . Cockroaches, as Temps reach 122° b/c Climate Change

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Niqash.org | – – Last week Baghdad faced a new threat: A plague of cockroaches, brought out by higher summer temperatures. All sorts of strange stories about the insect invaders emerged. Over the past week in Baghdad residents in the city have started to worry about an invader other than the extremist Islamic State group. […]

Climate Change

New Normal: A victim is displaced by Climate Change Disaster every Second

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Climate Victims – Every Second, One Person Is Displaced by Disaster By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, Jul 27 2016 (IPS) – Climate change and related extreme weather events have devastated the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of most vulnerable people worldwide– by far exceeding the total of […]

Climate Change

Maybe Oil was a bad Idea: Temps in Mideast Beat Heat Records for E. Hemisphere

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By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org ) – – “I’ve never seen Celsius temps like these on a weather map before,” climate scientist Michael Mann said on Twitter. Thermometers in Kuwait and Iraq reached record-shattering temperatures this week, with Weather Underground reporting that the measurements could be the hottest ever seen in the Eastern […]

Climate Change

Wildfire: Syrian Refugees in Canada Donating to help climate Refugees

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Syrian refugees in Canada are using Facebook and web sites to raise donations for climate refugees from the massive tar sands fire that has destroyed much of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada and forced the evacuation of 80,000 people living in the city and its surroundings. […]

Climate Change

Papal impact? For 1st time, 50% of GOP voters Worry about Climate Change

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The Tree | – – The tides have shifted among conservative voters, as new research suggests that half of Republicans heading to the polls this year believe that global warming is a threat. The survey, issued by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities, noted that twice as many conservatives believe that climate change is […]

Climate Change

Climate Warming Accelerating Carbon Release from Thawing Arctic Soils, Dartmouth Study Finds

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: John Cramer | john.cramer@dartmouth.edu | 603-646-9130 HANOVER, N.H. – March 16, 2016 – Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds. The findings appear in […]

Climate Change

Climate Godzilla Stirs: Heat and CO2 Records ‘Obliterated’

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By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | – – And another one bites the dust. The year 2014 was the warmest ever recorded by humans. Then 2015 was warmer still. January 2016 broke the record for the largest monthly temperature anomaly. Then came last month. February didn’t break climate change records – it obliterated them. […]

Climate Change

Climate change will kill more Italians and Greeks than Syrians

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By James Crisp | EurActiv.com | – – Climate change will kill more Italians and Greeks than Syrians in 2050, as soaring temperatures destroy crops and disrupt food supplies, new research published in medical journal The Lancet has found. About 124 Greeks will die for every million of its population in 2050, making it the […]