 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts AND news AND United States
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NOAA's Arctic
U.S. scouts out territory in Arctic; ice-cover loss could be worst ever |
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12 Aug 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 Aug 2008 U.S. scientists will head to the Arctic this week on a quest to map the ocean floor, and will collaborate with Canada on a surveying trip in September. The two nations -- and their Arctic-bordering compatriots Russia, Denmark, and Norway -- are scrambling to measure their respective continental shelves, with an eye to claiming as much as they can of the estimated 90 billion bar ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, oil and gas drilling, scientific research, United States (all these topics) |
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Y2.1K
Ignoring climate change will cost U.S. big bucks, says group |
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23 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:34 AM on 23 May 2008 Doing nothing in the face of climate change would cost the U.S. $1.9 trillion a year (in today's dollars) by the turn of the next century, says a new report from green group NRDC. That includes big spending on severe-weather damage, real-estate losses, and energy and water costs. The NRDC report is aimed to counter claims that the Lieberman-Warner bill, set to hit the Senate floor in June, will s ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, economy, news, NRDC, United States (all these topics) |
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It Was the West of Times ...
U.S. West warming faster than the rest of the planet, says analysis |
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28 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:42 AM on 28 Mar 2008 The U.S. West is warming faster than the rest of the country, and faster than the planet as a whole, according to an analysis of 50 scientific studies done by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. From 2003 to 2007, the globe was 1 degree Fahrenheit warmer than its average 20th century temperature; during the same period, 11 Western states averaged 1.7 degrees war ... |
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Unclear and Present Danger
Climate change may cloud Lake Tahoe's waters, study says |
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25 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:45 PM on 25 Mar 2008 Climate change will likely cloud Lake Tahoe's famously clear waters within a decade, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California at Davis. Warmer temperatures are likely to alter and eventually shut down the lake's deep-water circulation, eventually turning the waters a murky green, researchers said. "A permanently stratified Lake Tahoe becomes ju ... |
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Snow Woe
Climate change leading to water shortages in U.S. West, says study |
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01 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:58 AM on 01 Feb 2008 Remember water? We're not quite at the point of calling it a thing of the past -- but it sure looks to become scarce in the U.S. West, says a new study in the journal Science. It's not natural weather variability or volcanic activity, say researchers, but quite clearly climate change that is leading to swiftly declining snowpack in Western mountains, which leads to rivers running dry, wh ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, United States, water crisis (all these topics) |
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Shrinky-Dinky Do
Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows |
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14 Aug 2007 |
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| Shrinky-Dinky Do Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows It could be a summer of record lows in two of the world's iconic places: the Great Lakes and the Arctic seas. Water levels in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior are well below normal, and Superior could soon hit a record low set in 1926. The U.S. and Canada have undertaken a five-year study that c ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, United States (all these topics) |
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