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Monday, October 1, 2012 9:19 PM PDT

Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Botox Smooths Moods; Retractions Due to Fraud Are Way Up Weather helps rapid pace of SD row crop harvest Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth Scientists Propose Asteroid Dust Shield to Combat Global Warming UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Kenya FY tea earnings seen up, output to drop Candidates Mum on Climate Change Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth 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 Botox Smooths Moods; Retractions Due to Fraud Are Way Up Mon,1 Oct 2012 03:46 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Discovered: Botox lifts faces and moods; papers retracted due to fraud more often than error; climate change could decimate fish; African salmonella outbreak connected to HIV. Full Story Top Weather helps rapid pace of SD row crop harvest Mon,1 Oct 2012 01:48 PM PDT Associated Press - Agriculture officials say ideal weather conditions in South Dakota have pushed the row crop harvest far ahead of last year's pace and the five-year average. Full Story Top Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds Mon,1 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT SPACE.com - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet — and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet. Full Story Top How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth Mon,1 Oct 2012 11:37 AM PDT The Week (RSS) - Scientists in Scotland have developed an unorthodox plan to help fight climate change: They want to trigger a far-off asteroid to spew a large dust cloud into space. This dust would function as a cosmic shade to block some of the sun's harmful radiation from reaching Earth. Who's behind the project? And is it even feasible? What you need to know:What's the plan, exactly? Space experts at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland want to send a spaceship to an asteroid near Langrange point L1, "a site where the gravitational pull of the sun and the Earth balance each other to keep an object ... Full Story Top Scientists Propose Asteroid Dust Shield to Combat Global Warming Mon,1 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT Yahoo! Contributor Network - According to Space.com, a group of scientists in Scotland are publishing a paper in the journal Advances in Space Research that contemplates using asteroid dust to shield the Earth from solar radiation, thus mitigating the effects of global warming. Full Story Top UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row Mon,1 Oct 2012 06:02 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - A British government plan to merge its Antarctic research division with a centre studying the oceans has triggered protests from scientists who said it would cut studies of polar climate change and rising sea levels. They said the British Antarctic Survey had a strong history of discovery including, in 1985, of a hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from harmful solar rays. That helped spur a 1987 United Nations treaty on damaging chemicals. ... Full Story Top Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Mon,1 Oct 2012 04:31 AM PDT Scientific American - Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Full Story Top Kenya FY tea earnings seen up, output to drop Mon,1 Oct 2012 12:14 AM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea export earnings are expected to rise 1 percent year on year to 110 billion shillings in 2012, despite a forecast drop in production, the industry regulator said on Monday. The Tea Board of Kenya said production was expected to fall by 5 percent to 360 million kgs this year, after frost and delayed rains hurt growth of tea bushes earlier in the year. "We have experienced severe weather conditions during the first few months of the year," Sicily Kariuki, the board's managing director, told a news conference. ... Full Story Top Candidates Mum on Climate Change Sun,30 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Scientific American - How can we break the ice and get a political conversation started about climate change, David Biello asks Full Story Top Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth Sat,29 Sep 2012 06:22 AM PDT LiveScience.com - To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. Full Story Top 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

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