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Climate change and flooded freeways Climate disruption comes home to the Northwest	Patrick Mazza	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In the late 1990s, after pineapple express storms caused severe flooding and deadly mudslides across the Northwest, National Climatic Data Center Chief Scientist Thomas Karl said the storms were 'an example of the type of weather patterns that would be expected to become more frequent and yield an increase in precipitation extremes as the climate continues to warm.' Welcome to the future. The Northwest was fire-hosed again in recent days, flooding commu ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

What does climate change look like? Northwest flooding gives some clues	Eric de Place	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, it looks like the last few days, according to this report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In pictures, it looks like this and this.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics)

What Part of Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report		05 Dec 2007	News
"Go Away" Don't You Understand? Severe precipitation in U.S. significantly increased over past half-century, says report Posted at 5:50 PM on 05 Dec 2007 The number of severe rainfalls and snowstorms across the U.S. has increased by around 24 percent in the last 50 years, says a new report from green group Environment America. In five states -- Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont -- instances of heavy precipitation have jumped by more than 50 per ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

So what happened to the 2007 hurricane season? Hurricanes this past year were unpredictably ... average	Joseph Romm	04 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Lots of experts are weighing in as the Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end (today). One of my favs, Jeff Masters, summarizes it this way: The Atlantic hurricane season of 2007 is over, and it was a strange one. For the second straight year, we had a near average season, despite pre-season predictions of a very active season. Before going further, I should point out that hurricane forecasting experts tend to be on the wild side. The dean of forecasters ...
Topics: climate, severe weather (all these topics)

Denier bites the dust Australian prime minister goes down to decisive defeat	Joseph Romm	24 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Global warming takes down its first major political victim: Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Why the stunning loss? A key reason was Howard's "head in the sand dust" response to the country's brutal once-in-a-thousand year drought. As the UK's Independent reported in April: ...
Topics: Australia, climate, elections, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

No Forest for the Weary Gulf State forests ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, says study		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the Gulf States is well known (if occasionally ignored), but the storm also brutalized the region's forests. A new study published in Science reports that Katrina destroyed some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, leading to a laundry list of problems. Federal funding for replanting has been slow in coming, and many pri ...
Topics: deforestation, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

Consider Sidr Sidr, a massive tropical cyclone, is going to hit Bangladesh-Indian border within 24 hrs	James Dailey	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Over the past several days, I've monitored reports of Sidr, a Tropical Cyclone churning its way up the Bay of Bengal. The forecasting models are based almost entirely on satellite imagery, and earlier in the week the computer models were telling forecasters it would weaken as it headed north. It hasn't: THE CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR A LESS-PRONOUNCED WEAKENING PRIOR TO LANDFALL THAN THE PREVIOUS FORECAST DUE TO THIS ENHANCED UPPER LEVEL OUTFLOW. THE TRACK REASONING ...
Topics: Bangladesh, severe weather, India, climate (all these topics)

Cyclone Sidr	David Roberts	14 Nov 2007	Gristmill
There's a category 4 storm headed toward a low-lying area Bangladesh. It's still gaining strength, and could hit land within 24 hours. People in the know say this very well could turn into a worst case scenario. See Chris Mooney for more.
Topics: severe weather, Bangladesh (all these topics)

It Takes a Spillage to Raze the Wild Tanker spills over 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in Black Sea		12 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 7:07 AM on 12 Nov 2007 On Sunday, a storm in the Black Sea sank five ships and ran others aground, including an oil tanker that split in half, spilling about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil -- roughly half its cargo. Two other ships carrying fuel oil were among those that hit shore, but they apparently didn't spill anything. At least two of the sunken ships were carrying thousands of tons of s ...
Topics: news, oil, severe weather, wildlife (all these topics)

The Achilles heel of nuclear power Nuclear plants require lots of water in an increasingly dry world	Joseph Romm	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
No, I don't mean cost, safety, waste, or proliferation -- though those are all serious problems. I mean the Achilles heel of nuclear power in the context of climate change: water. Climate change means water shortages in many places and hotter water everywhere. Both are big problems for nukes: ... nuclear power is the most water-hungry of all energy sources, with a single reactor consuming 35-65 million litres of water each day. The Australians, stuck in a once- ...
Topics: climate, energy, nuclear power, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

Great Lakes water wars Race to make the Earth look like the Moon	Jon Rynn	30 Oct 2007	Gristmill
What with drought threatening large sections of the American West and South, perhaps it should not be surprising to see this article from the Chicago Tribune, 'Great Lakes key front in water wars; Western, Southern states covet Midwest resource,' in which the reporter warns: With fresh water supplies dwindling in the West and South, the Great Lakes are the natural-resource equivalent of the fat pension fund, and some politicians are eager to raid it. The lakes contain ne ...
Topics: climate, severe weather, water conflicts, water crisis (all these topics)

Let us pay In times of crisis, we get what we pay for	Ryan Avent	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A week of intense wildfires in southern California displaced the news from front pages, but the drought in the southeastern states rages on, despite a few welcome but too-brief rain events. As sources of drinking water slowly exhaust themselves, under pressure from growing demand and lagging supply, one wonders why governments in the region don't raise water prices to encourage conservation. Instead, most areas have chosen to ration supplies with top-down orders, which ...
Topics: water crisis, severe weather, politics (all these topics)

Friedman asks the wrong question It's not whether we're responsible, but whether we're prepared that counts	David Roberts	29 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I've been meaning to write something about the questions prompted by the California wildfires. The Mustache helped me this weekend by picking out what is, in my view, exactly the wrong question: "Did we do that?" Most news stories and blog posts that tried to connect the wildfires with climate change were constructed around that question. Many column inches were expended trying to calibrate the exact degree of responsibility human fossil fuel emissions migh ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics)

Drying up A global trend toward drought	Maywa Montenegro	28 Oct 2007	Gristmill
A few months ago, I reported on the decade-long drought that's bedeviling Australia. In it I predicted -- with the help of experts such as Tim Flannery -- that climate skeptic John Howard would lose his seat to the Labor Party leader, Kevin Rudd, in this October's national elections. Rudd is running on a platform that includes $50 million for geothermal energy, $50 million for an Australian Solar Institute, and a 60 percent cut in CO2 emissions by 2050. And accordi ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

Wanted: climate disaster rapid response Greens should talk about climate disasters when people are listening	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
As Matt Stoller pointed out at Open Left, environmental groups haven't been very quick off the mark in responding to the California wildfires and framing them as a climate disaster. Whether it's Katrina, Rita, the 2003 wildfires, 2004 Florida hurricanes, or any of the numerous other climate disasters of recent years, environmental groups have been slow. It's true that you can't tie any particular climate disaster directly to global warming -- but it's easy enough to ...
Topics: environmental movement, severe weather, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

Lyin' and Steven Fox pundit blames wildfires on federal government	Kit Stolz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
60 Minutes ran a spectacularly well-timed feature this past Sunday on wildfires in the Western states, entitled "Expert: Warming Climate Fuels Mega-Fires." Predictably, climate change denier Steven Milloy, who runs a website and serves as a pundit for Fox News, was quick to criticize the news report. His press agent at Advocacy Ink issued a release for him, in which Milloy claimed that, "There's no evidence that man-made climate change is playing any rol ...
Topics: climate, severe weather, dumbassery, California (all these topics)

You're Getting Warmer, Warmer ... Sprawling homes susceptible to flames in California		24 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:27 PM on 24 Oct 2007 The impact of the still-raging California fires on humans and their homes is tragic and lamentable -- but far from unexpected, thanks to homeowners' tendency to sprawl out and nestle right up to the fire line. Some two-thirds of new building in southern California in the past decade was on tinder-dry, fire-susceptible land, says historian Mike Davis. "You might as well be ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, news, placemaking, severe weather, sprawl (all these topics)

A taste of what's to come Global warming and the California wildfires	Joseph Romm	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Global warming makes wildfires more likely and more destructive -- as many scientific studies have concluded. Why? Global warming leads to more intense droughts, hotter weather, earlier snowmelt (hence less humid late summers and early autumns), and more tree infestations (like the pine beetle). That means wildfires are a dangerous amplifying feedback, whereby global warming causes more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide, thereby accelerating global warmin ...
Topics: climate change impacts, severe weather, California, climate (all these topics)

Char for the Course California wildfires continue to rage		23 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:59 PM on 23 Oct 2007 In case you haven't heard, there are some crazy fires going down in southern California. At the time of this posting, some 400,000 acres have burned, igniting more than 1,500 structures, including some 1,000 homes. An estimated 700,000 people have been evacuated; two have died. The White House has declared a state of emergency, and health officials are urging children, the elderly, and the sick to stay in ...
Topics: California, climate, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Stories from the Forgotten Coast With the Katrina-anniversary media gone, the hard work continues	Annie Ducmanis	23 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors website. FEMA trailer camp, Plaquemines Parish, La. Photo: Marni Rosen The many communities of color along the Gulf Coast, be they African American, Creole, Native American, or Vietnamese American, have much in common -- and not just because they're still struggling to get back on their ...
Topics: climate change impacts, environmental justice, Louisiana, Mississippi, severe weather (all these topics)

Fresh water in peril Investments are needed to stave off climate-induced water crisis	Andrew Dessler	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
To me, loss of freshwater supplies is the scariest impact of climate change. After all, I can imagine adapting relatively successfully to a warmer world. I cannot imagine adapting to a world with less freshwater. That view was reinforced by a great article on water in The New York Times Magazine. Read it and then forward it to all of your friends. Over on inkstain, John Fleck also has a bunch of terrific blog entries about the ongoing water crisis in the Southeas ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

Good News for People Who Love Bad News Reports bring various doomy and gloomy predictions		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:52 PM on 22 Oct 2007 Indeed, the depressing reports come fast and furious. German-based Energy Watch Group says the world has already reached peak oil, and predicts that production will now fall by 7 percent a year. The Worldwatch Institute suggests that 21 cities that will have populations of 8 million or more by 2015 are highly vulnerable to havoc wreaked by rising seas. The comprehensive &qu ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, energy, news, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

It's getting hot in here 2007: A record-setting U.S. drought year	Joseph Romm	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) just issued its September report -- and the West and Southeast continue to scorch: About 43 percent of the contiguous U.S. fell in the moderate to extreme drought categories (based on the Palmer Drought Index) at the end of September. Here is the U.S. Drought Monitor (darker = drier): Here are some of the drought records being set around the country: Drought and mild temperatures have pushed Lake Superior ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

It's the Heat and the Humidity Climate change will bring more humidity and heat-related deaths		10 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 10 Oct 2007 Climate change is increasing global humidity, according to a new study in Nature. If the globe heats as projected, air stickiness could increase globally by up to 24 percent by 2100. Says study coauthor Katharine Willett, "Although it might not be a lethal kind of thing, it's going to increase human discomfort." For a lethal kind of thing, we turn to a study ...
Topics: climate, climate science, New York City, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Marathon meltdown A first-hand view from Chicago's overheated marathon	Grist	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Photo: sterno74 Chicago's annual marathon was shut down early on Sunday due to oppressive heat and humidity, which led to dozens of hospitalizations. Grister Sarah Hardin was on the scene and offers this first-hand report: ----- It's become a tradition for my geographically widespread family to converge on Chicago in October for the city's annual marathon. We've been volunteering at the marathon ever since my cousin married the operations m ...
Topics: severe weather, Chicago, sports (all these topics)

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