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Today's Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Idaho smokejumper dies in parachute training drill Climate Change Report Supports Bill McKibben's 'Terrifying New Math' Yarnell Hill fire report: Weather, communication led to loss of 19 'hotshots' SpaceX to Launch Space Weather Satellite for Canada Sunday New Climate Report More Confident About Alarming Changes IPCC Climate Change Report: Experts React IPCC Report: Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming Report to detail blaze, deaths of 19 firefighters

Idaho smokejumper dies in parachute training drill  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 05:54 PM PDT By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A veteran smokejumper for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has died after parachuting from a plane during a training exercise in Idaho, the first such accident in 13 years, an agency spokesman said on Saturday. It was unclear if an equipment flaw, medical emergency or weather conditions caused the death on Friday of Mark Urban, 40, of Boise, said Bureau of Land Management spokesman Ken Frederick. ... Full Story	Top
Climate Change Report Supports Bill McKibben's 'Terrifying New Math'  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 02:18 PM PDT The world's top climate scientists on Friday unveiled their much-anticipated assessment of global warming and the conclusion couldn't be more definitive: It is "extremely likely" that human activity is the "dominant cause of climate change observed since the 1950s." Full Story	Top
Yarnell Hill fire report: Weather, communication led to loss of 19 'hotshots'  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 12:48 PM PDT Nineteen Granite Mountain Hotshots lost contact with fire commanders for most of 30 minutes before being overrun and killed by an out-of-control chaparral canyon fire near Prescott, Ariz., on June 30, according to the Yarnell Fire Serious Accident Investigation report released Saturday. Full Story	Top
SpaceX to Launch Space Weather Satellite for Canada Sunday  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 07:45 AM PDT A new space-weather satellite could help better protect Earth's infrastructure from damaging solar storms, officials from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) say. Full Story	Top
New Climate Report More Confident About Alarming Changes  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 06:38 AM PDT The latest landmark climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released today (Sept. 27), and it states the most certainty to date of humanity's role in causing global warming and climate change. Full Story	Top
IPCC Climate Change Report: Experts React  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 06:37 AM PDT Scientists and other experts all over the world are reacting today (Sept. 27) to the report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that scientists are more certain than ever of the link between human activities and global warming. Full Story	Top
IPCC Report: Strongest Case Yet for Human-Caused Global Warming  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 06:37 AM PDT The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report on the science of global warming squarely blames humans as the primary cause of climate change, saying it is "extremely likely" that human activities have caused most of the warming of the planet's surface that has occurred since the 1950s. Full Story	Top
Report to detail blaze, deaths of 19 firefighters  Saturday, Sep 28, 2013 12:48 AM PDT PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — A highly anticipated report examining weather conditions, radio traffic and fire behavior, among other things, is expected to help explain how 19 members of an elite firefighting crew died while battling an Arizona wildfire. Officials, however, said it won't assign blame. Full Story	Top

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