Meteorological
Strong earthquake hits off southern Japan
Washington Examiner - 21st Dec 2010A strong Earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 has struck in the Pacific off southern Japan. Japan's Meteorological Agency has issued a Tsunami warning from the quake, which occurred about 130 kilometers (80.6 miles) off the Chichi Island…
Read more >>This year is coolest since 2000
BBC News - 14th Dec 2010The world in 2008 has been cooler than at any time since the turn of the century, scientists say. Cooling La Nina conditions in the Pacific brought temperatures down to levels last seen in the year 2000. The World Meteorological Organization (WM…
Read more >>'Snowfall' shocks Kenyan village
BBC News - 14th Dec 2010Residents of a village in central Kenya were shocked to see a blanket of hail resembling snow covering their land. "I have not seen such a thing ever since I was born," said one resident of Nyahururu. "Where shall we graze our cattle now? We do …
Read more >>Climate goal may spell end for some coral reefs
Washington Examiner - 7th Dec 2010FILE - In this Dec. 2005 file photo provided by the National Park Service shows National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller examining the Coral Reef in the Buck Island Reef National Monument in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after bleaching …
Read more >>Unavoidable Climate Change: Past the Point of No Return
The Huffington Post - 19th Nov 2010It's too late. The world has missed the opportunity to avoid serious, damaging human-induced Climate Change. For a variety of reasons ranging from ignorance to political ideology to commercial self-interest to inertia to intentional misrepresent…
Read more >>NTSB Suggests Poor Visibility in Plane Crash Involving Former Sen. Stevens
The Wall Street Journal - 26th Aug 2010By ANDY PASZTOR Federal investigators on Wednesday issued the strongest signals yet that poor weather conditions—including clouds perhaps as low as 600 feet—likely played a central role in the plane crash that killed former Sen. Ted…
Read more >>Global Cooling is the Hoax
Booman Tribune - 5th Jul 2010Yes I will get to the fraudulent claims that Global denialists have been pushing that our planet has actually cooled since 1998 and will continue to cool for years to come. But first, just for fun, let's take a look at the weather outside. A…
Read more >>Berm Notice: Jindal demagogues sand barrier ’solution’ that probably won’t help, will take many months, use up valuable resources, vanish in the first storm
Climate Progress - 27th Jun 2010“ In the end, we have a project that is incredibly expensive. There has been little scientific review. It is questionable if the proposed berm will prevent Oil from entering the wetlands it is designed to protect. The structure will be ver…
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