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| Storms spook some U.S. cities into postponing Halloween fun Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 04:49 PM PDT By Timothy Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Forecasts for heavy rain and strong winds spooked dozens of U.S. cities and towns into postponing Halloween trick-or-treating on Thursday as a storm system that flooded parts of Texas, killing at least one person, churned north toward the Great Lakes. Officials in parts of at least four states in the path of the storm - Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee - said they decided to put off the customary practice of children in costumes going from house to house collecting candy. "I think it's a good idea," said Tara Dudzik, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. Full Story | Top |
| Column: A journalistic revolution Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 01:15 PM PDT  By Neal Gabler Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who revealed National Security Agency surveillance leaks from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, dueled this week with former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller over objectivity in journalism. He explained that his new reporting venture, a website funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, would treat official pronouncements with skepticism. But while this argument has been taking up a lot of the journalistic oxygen, Paul Thornton, head of the Los Angeles Times letters to the editor section, weighed in recently with a potentially more significant position. Because, according to Thornton, "Saying 'There's no sign humans have caused climate change' is not stating an opinion, it's asserting a factual inaccuracy." It should have been the journalistic shot heard 'round the world, except not many people seem to have heard it. Full Story | Top |
| Emerging economies nearing half of global warming emissions Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 11:50 AM PDT Total greenhouse gas emissions by China and other emerging nations since 1850 will surpass those of rich nations this decade, complicating U.N. talks about who is most to blame for global warming, a study showed on Thursday. Developing nations accounted for 48 percent of cumulative emissions from 1850 to 2010, according to the study by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, research group Ecofys and the European Commission's Joint Research Center. "Discussions at the U.N. climate negotiations tend to focus on which countries have contributed most to climate change," the study said. The biggest emitters since 1850, taken as the start of widespread industrial use of fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases when burnt, were the United States, China, the European Union and Russia, it said. Full Story | Top |
| Beach Nourishment Works, But Should Towns Rebuild? Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:37 AM PDT  DENVER —Beach nourishment works, according to a detailed survey of New Jersey homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy, researchers reported here this week at the Geological Society of America's annual meeting. But protecting private property by replenishing storm-damaged beaches — projects that cost taxpayers billions of dollars — may be an exercise in futility, with the specter of sea level rise and climate change's effects on storms. "Our barrier islands and our coastal areas are coming in for a time of severe trouble," said Harold Wanless, a coastal scientist at the University of Miami. Despite beach nourishment and a seawall to offer protection from powerful waves, Hurricane Sandy destroyed 18 homes in Sea Bright, N.J., last year, where Sandy's storm surge was among the highest in the state, said Adam Griffith, a coastal research scientist at Western Carolina University's Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, who led the beach nourishment study. Full Story | Top |
| Weather Alert: Middletown Could See Winds of 50-60 MPH Into Fri Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 10:12 AM PDT  You'd best batten down the hatches tonight, Middletown, as the National Full Story | Top |
| NWS Sends Out High-Wind Warning For Southeastern Connecticut For Tonight, Friday Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:31 AM PDT  A press release from the National Weather Service: ***High Wind Watch for New London and Middlesex Counties*** URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY Full Story | Top |
| Trick-or-Treating Still On in Downers Grove Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:31 AM PDT  Get out the umbrellas and ponchos. Despite the National Weather Service predicting "periods of rain and isolated thunderstorms" Thursday, trick-or-treating is still a go in Downers Grove. As of 9 a.m. Thursda Full Story | Top |
| More than foot of rain falls during Texas storms Thursday, Oct 31, 2013 08:29 AM PDT Strong storms dumped more than a foot of rain in Central Texas, prompting officials to rescue people from trees and cancel classes in a few Austin-area school districts. The National Weather Service reported ... Full Story | Top |
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