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| How to Hire a Private Jet to Beat Winter Weather Delays Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 08:07 PM PST Charter flights can provide escape for frustrated passengers willing to pay high prices. (Just don't rent them Super Bowl week.) Full Story | Top |
| [$$] Corporate Watch Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 08:07 PM PST JetBlue Airways Corp. said its fourth-quarter earnings surged on improved passenger traffic and stronger revenue. JetBlue expects severe weather in the Northeast in early January will hurt its first-quarter results. JetBlue has tweaked its model over the years, in many ways becoming more like a full-service carrier. JetBlue expects its capacity to increase between 2.5% and 4.5% in the first quarter and between 5% and 7% for the year. Full Story | Top |
| Terrible weather brings out terrific people Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 05:09 PM PST Full Story | Top |
| Climate change is killing baby penguins Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 05:06 PM PST  Climate change means more extreme weather and baby penguins are paying the price with their lives, said a pair of long-term studies out Wednesday. Soaking rainstorms and unusual heat have killed vast numbers of young Magellanic penguins at the bottom tip of South America, said one of the papers published in the journal PLOS ONE. "It's the first long-term study to show climate change having a major impact on chick survival and reproductive success," said lead author Dee Boersma, a biology professor at the University of Washington. Over the course of 27 years, an average of 65 percent of chicks died annually, said the study. Full Story | Top |
| Less Snow Threatens Antarctica's Fragile Ice Shelves Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 05:02 PM PST  Antarctica's summer meltwater ponds are beautiful killers. Given an escape route down to the ice, the sapphire-blue water jacks open fractures and crevasses in ice shelves, breaking them apart. Most ice shelves — floating, frozen plateaus permanently attached to the shore — have a thick blanket of snow that protects them from meltwater. But climate change may soon transform these downy snow blankets into threadbare sheets, putting more ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula at risk of collapse, a new study finds. Full Story | Top |
| A look at the wild weather in the Deep South Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 04:30 PM PST A look at the winter storm that crippled the Deep South: Full Story | Top |
| Now for the weather on Luhman: Cloudy with a chance of molten iron rain Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:16 PM PST You think the weather is bad on Earth lately. The first weather maps from this dim, gaseous object known as a brown dwarf, show a complex structure of patchy clouds, comprised of liquid iron and other minerals stewing in scorching temperatures, a pair of studies show. Computer models indicate that as a brown dwarfs cools, liquid droplets containing iron and other minerals form in their atmospheres. Brown dwarfs are bigger than Jupiter-sized planets, but too small for nuclear fusion, the signature process that gives a star its shine. Full Story | Top |
| European bat population bounces back from the brink: study Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 03:01 PM PST Europe's bat population is vulnerable, but conservation policies have boosted it by more than 40 percent after years of decline, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Thursday. European bat populations shrank, particularly during the second half of the 20th century, because of intensive agriculture, disappearing habitats and toxic chemicals used in treating roof timbers where they roost. The new report found conservation policies had helped to reverse the decline, but concluded bats should "still be considered vulnerable". They are also extremely sensitive to environmental change, which means they serve as an early indicator of climate change. Full Story | Top |
| 2014 winter storm isn't 1st to cripple Atlanta Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:45 PM PST ATLANTA (AP) — The winter storm that left Atlanta-area commuters stranded in cars overnight and thousands of children sleeping on cots at schools is far from the first to paralyze the Southern city. Here's a glance at four decades of wicked winter weather events that stunned Hotlanta: Full Story | Top |
| CP Rail posts record results, shares hit new high Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:32 PM PST  By Solarina Ho TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Pacific Railway , the country's second largest railroad, reported record quarterly results on Wednesday despite taking a hit from extreme winter weather in December. "CP's profitability improvement in 2013 has been nothing short of spectacular," National Bank Financial analyst Cameron Doerksen told clients. Shares of the Calgary, Alberta-based railway jumped as much as 8.3 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Wednesday to a record high of C$171.31, before closing at C$165.00. "We closed the year out only 4 percent off of best in class and second best in the industry," Chief Executive Hunter Harrison told analysts during a conference call. Full Story | Top |
| Rains Spurred by Climate Change Killing Penguin Chicks Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 02:08 PM PST  Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina — a trend scientists attribute to climate change and expect to worsen throughout the century, a new study finds. From 1983 through 2010, researchers based at the University of Washington in Seattle monitored a colony of roughly 400,000 Magellanic penguins living halfway up the coast of Argentina on a peninsula called Punta Tombo. It revealed that starvation and predation were the most common and consistent chick killers over the years, but that hypothermia was the leading cause of death during years with heavy rainstorms, which became more prevalent throughout the study period — a trend that is consistent with climate models projecting the effects of climate change in the region. "They have to have waterproof feathers to survive," study co-author Dee Boersma told LiveScience. Full Story | Top |
| Cold weather sends natural gas prices soaring Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014 01:25 PM PST Natural gas prices rose sharply Wednesday as cold weather continued to blanket large parts of the country. Metals prices were mixed, while agricultural futures fell. Natural gas soared 52 cents, or 10 ... Full Story | Top |
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