Friday, September 28, 2012

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Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News:
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
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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
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Lightning Still Largely a Mystery
Thu,27 Sep 2012 06:43 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -

Lightning Still Largely a MysterySome 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.


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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
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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
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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
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Why Politicians Need to Think Like Scientists
Wed,26 Sep 2012 10:14 AM PDT
LiveScience.com -

Why Politicians Need to Think Like ScientistsGlobal 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.


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Church of England chooses new leader to weather storms
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:50 AM PDT
Reuters -

Britain's Queen Elizabeth speaks with Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury during a reception at the Houses of Parliament in LondonLONDON (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. ...


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Anglican church chooses new leader to weather storms
Wed,26 Sep 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Reuters -

Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury Williams and his wife Jane wave off Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh at Lambeth Palace in central LondonLONDON (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. ...


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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
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Key US East Coast Weather Satellite GOES-13 Fails
Tue,25 Sep 2012 07:16 AM PDT
SPACE.com -

Key US East Coast Weather Satellite GOES-13 FailsA major weather satellite monitoring the U.S. East Coast has shut down, prompting officials to activate a spare satellite to take its place.


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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
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Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report Finds
Mon,24 Sep 2012 01:29 PM PDT
LiveScience.com -

Undecided Voters Care About Global Warming, Report FindsOnly 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.


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Another iPhone Fail: Siri Gives New Yorkers Weather for Texas
Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT
Mashable -

Another iPhone Fail: Siri Gives New Yorkers Weather for TexasAutumn 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.


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Siri is fouling up weather forecasts for major cities and suffering from intermittent outages
Mon,24 Sep 2012 11:45 AM PDT
BGR News -

Siri is fouling up weather forecasts for major cities and suffering from intermittent outagesNew 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


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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
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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
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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
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More Summertime Weather For North Texas
Mon,24 Sep 2012 06:40 AM PDT
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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
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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
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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
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STUDY: Human-Influenced Warming Affecting Weather
Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:00 AM PDT
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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
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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
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