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Study: Texas Wind Farms Not Causing Global Warming
Wed,2 May 2012 03:05 PM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - A study first reported by Reuters seemed to suggest large-scale wind farms in West Texas cause localized warming of the surface. The implication was the spread of such wind farms might cause rather than alleviate global warming. Full Story | Top |
Severe storms possible in Central Plains Wednesday
Wed,2 May 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters - MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and very large hail could develop over the Central Plains later on Wednesday stretching from eastern Nebraska into western Iowa and southern Minnesota, the National Weather Service said. Conditions are ripe for three consecutive days of storms in the region. There were reports of tornadoes, large hail and high winds in parts of south-central Minnesota and in northwest Iowa on Tuesday, and more storms are possible on Thursday. ... Full Story | Top |
Plant study flags dangers of warming world
Wed,2 May 2012 10:18 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in response to climate change, research in the United States showed on Wednesday, which could have devastating knock-on effects for food chains and ecosystems. Global warming is having a significant impact on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world, changing some breeding, migration and feeding patterns, scientists say. ...
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How Weather.com Is Building a Social Meda Weather Alert System
Tue,1 May 2012 01:33 PM PDT
Mashable - Forget the screeching emergency tone that interrupts TV and radio shows during severe weather. The Weather Channel wants to build a weather alert system base on social media, and it's started laying that framework with a site redesign that launched Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Hot Weather's Return Brings Ozone Warnings
Tue,1 May 2012 04:40 AM PDT
HealthDay - MONDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Health risks from ground-level ozone pollution spike between March and October, lung specialists at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston have found. Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool
Tue,1 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a 'central bank' or other policy tool to manage future imbalances in the world's biggest carbon market. If it does act, the European Commission, the bloc's executive, is cautious about entrenching such a mechanism in the scheme, the bloc's chief weapon to fight climate change. ... Full Story | Top |
Burundi lifts food import duty to ease living costs
Tue,1 May 2012 02:31 AM PDT
Reuters -  BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi has suspended taxes on imported basic foods such as flour and oil to help citizens squeezed by a jump in living costs that has prompted strikes, its president said on Tuesday. The government said last week that food production in the central African nation fell 30 percent in 2011 from the previous year due to harsh weather conditions, and it does not expect output to improve during the February-May harvest season. ...
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Tornado hits small Oklahoma town, knocks out power
Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A tornado hit a small Oklahoma town on Monday, knocking out power to the community of 1,000 residents and damaging a farm just two weeks after a tornado elsewhere in the state killed at least six people, the National Weather Service said. No injuries were immediately reported in Monday night's twister in Medford, but much of northern Oklahoma was placed under tornado watch through the night, and flash flood warnings were issued due to heavy rains the past two days, said Forrest Mitchell of the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma. ... Full Story | Top |
Hotel company sues government over Tenn. flooding
Mon,30 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT
Associated Press - Gaylord Entertainment Co. filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of negligence that heavily damaged its luxury hotel in Nashville and the famous Grand Ole Opry House during flooding in 2010. Full Story | Top |
Study Finds Increased Warming Over Wind Farms
Mon,30 Apr 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - According to Science Daily, scientists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the journal Nature Climate Change that concludes large wind farms might have a warming effect. Researchers assessed satellite data of the areas surrounding large wind energy farms in Texas over a span of nine years from 2003 to 2011. Here are the details. Full Story | Top |
Do wind farms actually cause climate change?
Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT
The Week (RSS) - Here's a curveball on climate change: New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate. Many countries are rapidly expanding their capacity to generate electricity using wind-driven turbines as they try to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels. But are wind farms contributing to the very problem they're supposed to help solve? Here, a brief guide: How much do wind farms heat up the air? Researchers at the State University of New York at ... Full Story | Top |
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