Signal: El Niño/La Niño cycle more frequent/intense
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2010 weather more extreme: 21,000 dead

by on 19. Dec, 2010 in Uncategorized

More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined. “It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves,” said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010. [...]

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3rd straight year of drought for New Zealand linked to climate change

by on 06. Dec, 2010 in Uncategorized

New Zealand is in for a long, hot summer as La Nina hits our shores, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) says. Already, temperatures have soared across the country in late November, a pattern likely to continue until March, principal scientist James Renwick said today. “In November, pretty much all of the [...]