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Think the weather's weird? You're absolutely right |
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN
STAFF WRITER
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It's not your imagination: North Jersey is getting warmer and wetter and the flooding on at least some rivers is getting worse, experts say. Though these conclusions do not fully explain the weird weather -- a 70-degree January day, 8 inches of rain and severe flooding in April -- they validate people's suspicion that the weather is getting more unpredictable, if not more extreme. In the last 12 months, the state has experienced the wettest fall and April on record and the warmest November and December on record, according to New Jersey State Climatologist David A. Robinson. Robinson cautions that although computer models and historical data show a warming trend, it's too early to say if the extreme weather will become the new norm. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 August 2007 )
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Fires of 2007: Blazing changes - Summers of smoke may be here to stay as fires reclaim their natural |
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By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian Article Link Nature takes many forms - not all are convenient to humankind. In the Midwest, tornadoes rip through the countryside. In the Southeast, people learn to reckon with the occasional hurricane. Californians get jostled by sporadic earthquakes. In western Montana, fire and smoke have become nature's annual nuisances. The month of August once was reserved for leisurely hikes into the high country or long river floats under a seemingly endless blue sky. Since 2000 - the year 300,000 acres burned on the Bitterroot National Forest - that's all changed, as fire reclaims its natural place in the Western landscape. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 August 2007 )
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Legal mechanism needed to check climate change: Pachauri |
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Bangalore, Aug 19 (IANS) There is need for a legal mechanism to fight the challenges of climate change and global warming that are threatening the environment, Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) director-general R.K. Pachauri said Sunday. Delivering the convocation address at the 15th annual convocation of the National Law School of India University here, Pachauri told the graduating students there was no effective means to address the problem of climate change on an equitable and ethically fair basis. "Though the people and the political class are clamouring for a solution to the menace of global warming and the impending climate change, there is no legal mechanism by which a global agreement such as the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) can be given adequate teeth for compliance or a system to penalise those flouting such agreements. "It is time the legal profession turns its attention to the global dimensions of this serious challenge and motivate decision-makers to bring about a transformation of institutions and agreements to protect the lives of those who would be worst affected by the impact of climate change," Pachauri said. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 August 2007 )
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