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| Committee Planning for 100th Anniversary of Great Salem Fire Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 07:57 PM PST  Today is Wednesday, Dec. 4, and here are the five things you need to know: 1. It should be another nice day in Salem. The National Weather Service is predicting that loca Full Story | Top |
| Chilly Weather, But Turkey Trotters Carry On Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 06:51 PM PST  Cold weather? We're made of stronger stuff here in New England. Or, at least, the hundreds were who braved 25 degree weather Saturday morning to take part in the Main Street Association's 3rd annual Turkey Trot. The winne Full Story | Top |
| Freeze Warning Issued For Tonight Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 03:55 PM PST  The National Weather Service has issued a Full Story | Top |
| Federal study warns of sudden climate change woes Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 03:17 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth's environment are more worrisome than climate change's bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the federal government concluded Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Temperature limit too high to avoid climate change: study Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 02:06 PM PST By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - An internationally agreed target to limit rises in global average temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius is around double the threshold that would avoid catastrophic climate change, a study by 18 eminent scientists said. Governments decided in 2009 that such temperature increases needed to be no more than 2 degrees C (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to avoid effects such as more extreme weather, higher sea levels and ocean acidification. They aim to agree by 2015 on a global deal to cut the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change, but the reductions will not come into force until after 2020. Last month, a United Nations conference in Warsaw kept alive hopes for the 2015 deal but nations made little progress on committing to ambitious emission cuts to keep the world on track towards the 2 degree target. Full Story | Top |
| Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 02:02 PM PST Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts Full Story | Top |
| Icy Weather Threat Prompts Warnings, Cancellations Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 01:50 PM PST The threat of icy weather is pushing Santa's fireworks show in Burleson to next summer. Full Story | Top |
| Flu Forecast: Scientists Develop Predict Influenza By Utilizing Weather Forecasting Ideas Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 01:00 PM PST  By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer Published: 12/03/2013 01:16 PM EST on LiveScience Borrowing ideas from weather forecasting, researchers have developed a system to predict, weeks in advance, when a city will see the peak of its seasonal flu outbreak. A reliable flu forecast could limit an outbreak by informing people and health officials so they can step up protective measures, the researchers said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Family of Joey Frase Wants People to Dress Properly for Cold Weather Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 12:29 PM PST  As the one-year anniversary of the death of Joey Frase approaches, the Grayslake man's family is working to ed Full Story | Top |
| Weather Forecasters: Warm Weather Won't Last Long Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 12:01 PM PST  Full Story | Top |
| Climate Change Impacting Food Supply...But Health Care Serves Up Solutions Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 06:24 AM PST  By Michelle Gottlieb and Lucia Sayre Gottlieb and Sayre co-coordinate the Healthy Food in Health Care Program for Health Care Without Harm. Sayre is the Co-Executive Director of the Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility. Naysayers take heed...those few extra degrees associated with a changing climate, in most cases, may not be the panacea for feeding the world. So says a new report by the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report is not scheduled to be released until March, but was leaked, so we can get a head start on "digesting" this big news. ... Full Story | Top |
| Superstorm Sandy -- Lessons for Health Care in a Changing Climate Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 06:20 AM PST  By Gary Cohen, President of Health Care Without Harm; and Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED® AP, Principal, Perkins + Will, New York, NY It has been a year since Superstorm Sandy pummeled the New Jersey shoreline and New York City, knocking out the grid, trapping millions in their homes without power and forcing the evacuation of several critical care hospitals. The estimated ongoing clean-up cost is $70 billion. The international scientific consensus is that with climate change, such extreme weather events will continue to intensify and increase in frequency. ... Full Story | Top |
| Copenhagen Wheel turns any bike into an electric hybrid, ships early 2014 for $699 (video) Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 05:00 AM PST We can't fault you for dismissing the Copenhagen Wheel as vaporware -- it's been nearly four years since the pedal-assist bicycle accessory made its debut at the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference. But, ... Full Story | Top |
| Why energy producers need to pay heed to global warming Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 02:12 AM PST The world's top climate change scientists are now 95 percent certain that humans are responsible for global warming. That's the headline takeaway from the latest findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Global temperatures are the hottest since the last ice age and the planet is only getting warmer. What to make of this news? On one hand, it's likely not much of a surprise to most of us. Extreme weather events like superstorm Sandy are becoming more commonplace. Glaciers are melting, drought is gripping more parts of the world, and the amount of Arctic sea ice shrinks more Full Story | Top |
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