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Friday, September 28, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

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News: Scientist who saw drowned polar bears reprimanded Pray for Rain Lightning Still Largely a Mystery Weather Channel heads to swing states for election Sweden's H&M: Q3 profit rose slightly Bad Weather Forces Air Force One to Abort Landing Why Politicians Need to Think Like Scientists Church of England chooses new leader to weather storms Anglican church chooses new leader to weather storms Shocking Study: By 2030, Climate Change Could Kill 100 Million People Key US East Coast Weather Satellite GOES-13 Fails East Coast weather satellite fails, spare used Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds Another iPhone Fail: Siri Gives New Yorkers Weather for Texas Siri is fouling up weather forecasts for major cities and suffering from intermittent outages The Most Anti-Environmental Congress in U.S. History Seeks Reelection Toepfer cuts forecast of UK wheat crop after bad weather Balancing food, weather, and population More Summertime Weather For North Texas Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber The nation's weather Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme STUDY: Human-Influenced Warming Affecting Weather 9th Circuit Court rules against Kivalina Court rules against village in global warming case Scientist who saw drowned polar bears reprimanded Fri,28 Sep 2012 05:56 PM PDT Associated Press - An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. Full Story Top Pray for Rain Thu,27 Sep 2012 02:56 PM PDT National Journal - The weather forecast could have a big effect on America's economic forecast next year. The more rain, the better. Full Story Top Lightning Still Largely a Mystery Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:43 AM PDT LiveScience.com - Some 44,000 thunderstorms rage worldwide each day, delivering as many as 100 lightning bolts to the ground every second. These dramatic, deafening flashes of electricity recharge the global battery by keeping the ground flush with negative electric charge and maintaining the ionosphere's positive charge. Lightning turns the Earth into an electric circuit, and it may have even delivered the spark that got life started in the primordial soup. Full Story Top Weather Channel heads to swing states for election Thu,27 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT Associated Press - Snowstorms, hurricanes and tornados are what usually put The Weather Channel's news team in motion. This November it will mobilize for the election. Full Story Top Sweden's H&M: Q3 profit rose slightly Wed,26 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT Associated Press - Swedish fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz on Thursday reported a tiny 1 percent rise in third-quarter net profits, saying that although its clothing lines sold well in the beginning of the summer, the European financial crisis and poor weather conditions in August restrained consumption more than expected at the end of the period. Full Story Top Bad Weather Forces Air Force One to Abort Landing Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:32 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - Rain, wind in Ohio force Air Force One to abort landing; no delay reported Full Story Top Why Politicians Need to Think Like Scientists Wed,26 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT LiveScience.com - Global warming, counterterrorism efforts that profile Muslims, the shift to electronic voting machines — lawmakers grappling with these issues and others could benefit greatly from some scientific thinking, says a U.S. congressman and physicist. Full Story Top Church of England chooses new leader to weather storms Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:50 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Church of England officials met in secret on Wednesday to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, a centuries-old role with the modern task of preventing 80 million Anglicans worldwide from splitting over gay marriage and women bishops. The new church leader must reconcile modernists and traditionalists, and stem a long-term decline in church attendance, a difficult juggling act that some see as a poisoned chalice. ... Full Story Top Anglican church chooses new leader to weather storms Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:48 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Church of England officials met in secret on Wednesday to choose the next Archbishop of Canterbury, a centuries-old role with the modern task of preventing 80 million Anglicans worldwide from splitting over gay marriage and women bishops. The new church leader must reconcile modernists and traditionalists, and stem a long-term decline in church attendance, a difficult juggling act that some see as a poisoned chalice. ... Full Story Top Shocking Study: By 2030, Climate Change Could Kill 100 Million People Tue,25 Sep 2012 09:55 PM PDT Takepart.com - Money talks. So maybe this bit of news will sway a few climate-change deniers. Full Story Top Key US East Coast Weather Satellite GOES-13 Fails Tue,25 Sep 2012 07:16 AM PDT SPACE.com - A major weather satellite monitoring the U.S. East Coast has shut down, prompting officials to activate a spare satellite to take its place. Full Story Top East Coast weather satellite fails, spare used Mon,24 Sep 2012 02:47 PM PDT Associated Press - The U.S. weather satellite that tracks the East Coast and Atlantic hurricanes is broken. Full Story Top Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds Mon,24 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT LiveScience.com - Only about 7 percent of likely voters have not yet decided whether they will support Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, a new national survey finds. But on the topic of climate change, at least, these undecideds look more like Obama supporters than Romney voters. Full Story Top Another iPhone Fail: Siri Gives New Yorkers Weather for Texas Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT Mashable - Autumn in New York, and the temperatures are starting to turn with the leaves. Take Monday, when the city that never sleeps basked in a very pleasant, breezy 65 degrees. Unless you took out your iPhone and asked Siri for the weather, that is -- then it became a barely bearable 91 degrees. Full Story Top Siri is fouling up weather forecasts for major cities and suffering from intermittent outages Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:45 AM PDT BGR News - New York iPhone users who ask Siri for a weather forecast this week might be surprised to learn that the Big Apple is expected to register temperatures in the mid-90s for the next several days. Of course, that's not the actual New York weather forecast, but a weather forecast for the town of New York that's located in Texas. MacRumors reports, and BGR has independently confirmed, that Siri is coming up with the wrong results for weather requests in several towns, including the particularly egregious example where Siri pulls up the weather in New York, Texas when asked for weather in New York. BGR also experienced intermittent connectivity issues with Siri on Monday, although it's unknown whether this is related to Full Story Top The Most Anti-Environmental Congress in U.S. History Seeks Reelection Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:27 AM PDT Takepart.com - With all the climate-related disasters that unfolded this year—wildfires and floods and extreme heat, not mention the Arctic sea ice that melted to a record low level—you would think that Congress might get the message that action on climate change is a necessity.  Full Story Top Toepfer cuts forecast of UK wheat crop after bad weather Mon,24 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT Reuters - HAMBURG (Reuters) - Britain's 2012 wheat crop is likely to fall to 13.80 million tonnes from the 2011 crop of 15.25 million tonnes partly because of poor harvest-time weather, Germany's leading grain trading house Toepfer International said on Monday. Toepfer, which has extensive grain trading interests in Britain, had in August forecast the British wheat crop at 14.32 million tonnes. "In the United Kingdom, the harvest was only 90 percent completed by mid-September," Toepfer said. "The wheat quality is therefore very poor. ... Full Story Top Balancing food, weather, and population Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:47 AM PDT Christian Science Monitor - Cyclical or secular? That's the question economists, historians, climatologists, farmers, consumers – just about anyone with an interest in the future, which is more or less everyone – are trying to answer. Full Story Top More Summertime Weather For North Texas Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:40 AM PDT Full Story Top Boost for carbon capture from new non-toxic absorber Sun,23 Sep 2012 10:07 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have created a new material that could solve some of the problems holding back projects to combat global warming by capturing and burying carbon emitted from power stations. The material, made from aluminum nitrate salt, cheap organic materials and water, is non-toxic and requires less energy to strip out the carbon when it becomes saturated, the scientists said. ... Full Story Top The nation's weather Sun,23 Sep 2012 01:56 AM PDT Associated Press - Wet weather will diminish across the East Coast on Sunday as a low pressure system in eastern Canada lifts northeastward and away from the region. Flow around the system will continue producing lake effect rain showers across the southeastern shores of the Great Lakes, but shower activity will be light and widespread. Full Story Top Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the European Union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers. The European Commission has been enforcing its law since January to make all airlines take part in its Emissions Trading Scheme to combat global warming, prompting threats of a trade fight. ... Full Story Top STUDY: Human-Influenced Warming Affecting Weather Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT Full Story Top 9th Circuit Court rules against Kivalina Fri,21 Sep 2012 06:02 PM PDT Associated Press - A federal appeals court has ruled against the northwest Alaska village of Kivalina, which sued energy companies over claims that greenhouse emissions contributed to global warming that is threatening the community's existence. Full Story Top Court rules against village in global warming case Fri,21 Sep 2012 11:43 AM PDT Associated Press - A federal appeals court has ruled against the northwest Alaska village of Kivalina, which sued energy companies over claims that greenhouse emissions contributed to global warming that is threatening the community's existence. Full Story Top

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