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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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The Gulf Coast's Recovery: Uneven And Uneasy

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Debbie Elliot - Aug. 27 (Special Report) - Four years after Hurricane Katrina, housing is still elusive for some storm victims. In the small fishing villages along the Alabama Gulf Coast, the storm made a hardscrabble life even harder. Even in towns where federal money lures residents to move to higher ground, not everyone wants to go.

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Hundreds Feared Dead in Taiwan After Typhoon

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Wines - Aug. 11 (News Report) - The toll from the already deadly Typhoon Morakot in the Pacific threatened to soar on Tuesday, as huge mudslides buried a rural village in south-central Taiwan and seven apartment buildings in coastal China, leaving two dead and hundreds of people unaccounted for.

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Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jul. 23 (News Report) - hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday

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Earthquakes fuel questions over drilling in Cleburne | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Sherry Jacobson - Jun. 14 (News Report) - It's hard to find anyone in this North Texas city of 30,000 who isn't getting mailbox money in exchange for allowing a natural gas company to drill on – or under – his or her property. But after a spate of mild earthquakes in the past two weeks that could be connected to the drilling, people are starting to reconsider: Is it worth the money?

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Ocean monster shows hidden depths

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Richard Black - May. 28 (News Report) - We started planning the Chikyu about 15 years ago, and there were some people who thought we were too ambitious," he recalled. "But now we can see that the ship is doing what it is designed to do and is opening up new possibilities."

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Blue whales returning to their former Alaska habitat: Marine Wildlife

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Mary Pemberton - May. 19 (News Report) - Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 U.N. agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. Water is part of the complex web of factors that determine prosperity and stability, it said. Lack of access to water helps drive poverty and deprivation and breeds the potential for unrest and conflict, it warned.

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Drudge, Fox News again suggest a few days of cold weather trump climate change science

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Following the Drudge Report's lead, Fox News hosts Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity each suggested that, in Cavuto's words, a "massive snowstorm," which recently hit the East Coast, calls into question the scientific consensus on "global warming." However, climate scientists reject the notion that short-term changes in weather provide any evidence for or against the existence of climate change.

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Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Australia has been suffering its worst heatwave on record, the first time temperatures exceeded 110 F for 3 days running. It’s been so hot that on Thursday, the low at Melbourne airport was 87 F. Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification. The astonishing decade-long drought in southern Australia was declared ‘worst on record’ last year. My headline quote is from the UK’s Independent story, which notes: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is regarded as highly vulnerable. A study by the country’s blue-chip Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation identified its ecosystems as "potentially the most fragile" on earth in the face of the threat.

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In California, Hot and Dry Conditions Stir Drought Concerns

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Stu Woo - Jan. 14 (News Analysis) - The past two days have felt like summer in California, as unseasonable warmth sweeps the state -- possibly presaging a third straight year of drought, a worrisome possibility for a state already hit hard by the economic downturn. Another dry year could mean water rationing for businesses and individuals. It could also slow business expansion and affect the agricultural industry, ski resorts and efforts to keep firefighting costs down, after a year in which state and federal officials spent $1 billion combating wildfires. Temperatures jumped to 90 degrees in parts of California on Monday and Tuesday. With no rain forecast for the next week, the state is on track for one of its driest Januarys ever, said state climatologist Michael Anderson.

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Cleveland-area TV meteorologists disagree with prevailing attitude about climate change

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Michael Scott - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - Seitter said many meteorologists also don't trust models - "because we've seen how wrong they can be in predicting weather" - and that most don't interact with other scientists beyond other meteorologists. "We sort of live in our own world and haven't been exposed to the same volumes of research that the climatologists have," he said. "The day-to-day meteorologists are seeing anecdotal evidence, but not the research that goes back thousands of years," he said. "The two disciplines are very related, but the time span being looked at is very different.

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Tropical weather - Blogging tropical weather with the Chronicle staff

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By All newspaper staff - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Distribution of diabetic food, water and ice at 9520 Homestead County reminds residents to stay out of waterways Downtown Houston safe and open for business, HPD says Power update: CenterPoint reaches halfway mark More than just Ike on TV this weekend West University Place systems fully operational

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Heart of U.S. Oil and Gas Industries Shut Down as Storm Approached

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Sep. 13 (News Report) - In anticipation of what was expected to be a Category 3 storm, nearly 98 percent of the oil and 94 percent of the natural gas production in the Gulf had been shut down as of yesterday afternoon, according to the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service.

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Implications of a Ten Day Refinery Outage

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Oil Drum - By Gail Tverberg - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - According to EIA data, gasoline inventories the week that Hurricane Gustav hit were the lowest that they had been since 2000, amounting to 187.9 million barrels, or about 21 days supply. Quite a bit of this inventory is needed just to keep the pipelines filled. EIA does not publish information as to how far inventories need to drop before we start seeing outages, but it is clear that we have now reached the point where shortages are developing.

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Area goes dark as hurricane cuts power to millions

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Dale Lezon, Lindsay Wise - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Hurricane Ike knocked electricity offline for virtually the entire Houston area as it continued to roar across the area today, while Galveston officials prepared to assess potentially grim scenes in surge-soaked neighborhoods.

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Hanna roars ashore near North-South Carolina line

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jeffrey Collins, Kevin Maurer - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Tropical Storm Hanna blew ashore over tourist beaches on the North-South Carolina border early Saturday at the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could dump heavy rain from Virginia to New England.

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New Orleans dodges disaster

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Kathryn Jezer-Morton - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In the post-Gustav news conferences, there will be handshakes and good cheer about a planning and evacuation job well done. Republican presidential candidate John McCain is no doubt relieved that he can now make a presidential-sounding statement of satisfaction about the proceedings, and maybe rub away some of the stink of the Bush administration's legacy of failure during Katrina.

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FEMA Is Eager to Show It Learned From Katrina

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Lipton - Sep. 01 (Special Report) - Nature has a way of upending disaster-response plans. But there was a certain confidence Sunday that the federal government had learned its painful lessons and that there would be no repeat of the ineptitude that defined the response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.

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Gulf Coast feeling the effects of hurricane Gustav

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jacqueline L. Salmon, Philip rucker, William Branigin - Sep. 01 (Special Report) - Hurricane Gustav weakened to a Category 2 storm as it lashed the coast of Louisiana Monday, but federal officials warned it continues to pack a dangerous storm surge that is raising concerns -- mixed with considerable uncertainty -- about new flooding in New Orleans three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

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Gustav upsets the GOP Convention but may be good for the GOP

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By John Dickerson - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - For the moment, the disaster benefits McCain, because like all great political moments, it allows him to act authentically and yet benefit politically. One of the worst political clichÃ©s actually is true at this moment: Good policy is good politics. All McCain has to do is keep his aides off the phones talking about the politics of the storm, and he'll be in a position to benefit from it. (And so far, he looks like he's done that, too.)

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Hurricane Gustav approaches Cayman Islands

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Evan S. benn, Jacqueline Charles - Aug. 30 (News Report) - All computer models are in agreement that Gustav will grow into a ferocious hurricane -- conservative estimates predict a Category 3 -- before it makes landfall sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The question remains where exactly it will strike.

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Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As the globe continues to warm, the rainiest parts of the world are very likely to get wetter, according to a new study in Science. Desert dwellers, however, are likely to see what little rain they receive dry up, as the rain becomes even more concentrated in high-precipitation areas.

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Who'll start the rain?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Suzanne Bopp - Aug. 06 (Special Report) - China is probably the world's largest practitioner of cloud seeding, spending about $90 million a year. Now, eager to ensure rain comes before -- not during -- the Olympics, the Beijing Weather Modification Office plans to seed the clouds that float by beforehand, hoping to wash the pollution from the air and wring out any event-delaying precipitation.

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Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not.

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:50:02 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - We're stuck on the notion that climate change is the culprit every time a natural disaster strikes. But that's just muddying the waters. We're heading into the heart of hurricane season, and any day now, a storm will barrel toward the United States, inspiring all the TV weather reporters to find a beach where they can lash themselves to a palm tree. We can be certain of two things: First, we'll be told that the wind is blowing very hard and the surf is up. Second, some expert will tell us that this storm might be a harbinger of global warming. Somewhere along the line, global warming became the explanation for everything. Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event -- a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck -- without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming. You are permitted to note, as a parenthetical, that no single weather calamity can be ascribed with absolute certainty (roll your eyes here to signal the exasperating fussiness of scientists) to what humans are doing to the atmosphere. But your tone will make it clear that this is just legalese, like the fine-print warnings on the flip side of a Lipitor ad.

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