by Jason Moore
2News - Alaska 3 Jan 07 Anchorage, Alaska - It snowed all day in Anchorage Wednesday. A combination of snow, fog and ice contributed to more than 100 cars becoming stuck in ditches and snow berms across the city. The Anchorage Police Department said accidents occurred at a pace of a collision every 10 minutes today. A snow advisory remains in effect and the job of digging out is only beginning.
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By Andrea Stone
USA TODAY 4 Jan 07 Bill Weigle's tree service in Lyndeborough, N.H., usually delivers five to 10 cords of firewood a day this time of year. He's sold only one in the past two weeks.
Business is "dead," Weigle says. "I've never seen it like this ... I feel like the Maytag man." This winter's curiously warm weather across the Northeast and much of the Midwest has played havoc with more than seasonal businesses. In Washington, D.C., springlike temperatures have faked out flora, causing dogwoods and daffodils to bloom. |
AP
5 Jan 07 NEW IBERIA, La. - Powerful storms that killed at least two people and ripped apart mobile homes in Louisiana headed into Alabama on Friday, where tornado watches were posted across the state.
A flash-flood watch was still in effect Friday morning for parts of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi after the heavy rain. Some of the worst damage from Thursday's storms was in Louisiana's Iberia Parish after what appeared to be a tornado hit in the New Iberia area just before 4 p.m. |
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER
Associated Press 4 Jan 07 LONDON - A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world's hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday.
Britain's Meteorological Office said there was a 60 percent probability that 2007 would break the record set by 1998, which was 1.20 degrees over the long-term average. "This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening around the world," the office said. |
Tim Lai
January 05, 2007 Toronto Star As British meteorologists announced that the world will probably be the warmest on record in 2007, Torontonians will get a burst of that heat today as the city is expected to "obliterate" record temperatures.
The mercury is due to reach 13C today, breaking the 1997 record of 10.1 degrees, according to Environment Canada. |
By Carol J. Williams
LA Times 3 Jan 07 MIAMI - Frustrated with people and politicians who refuse to listen or learn, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield ends his 34-year government career today in search of a new platform for getting out his unwelcome message: Hurricane Katrina was nothing compared with the big one yet to come.
Mayfield, 58, leaves his high-profile job with the National Weather Service more convinced than ever that U.S. residents of the Southeast are risking unprecedented tragedy by continuing to build vulnerable homes in the tropical storm zone and failing to plan escape routes. |
Peter Gorrie
January 03, 2007 Toronto Star So far away, and yet so close.
It's 2050. Read any report on climate change and, chances are, that date will stare back at you. It's frequently set as the year when we can expect a long, frightening list of devastating impacts, including decimation of the oceans' fish and the planet's forests; an ice-free Arctic; hordes of starving environmental refugees seeking new homes; and the extinction of a million animal species. But Canada's main political parties and the governments of many countries also cite 2050 as the target by which to achieve massive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Why that year? Part of its appeal is that it's a middling distance into the future. |
Associated Press
3 Jan 07 BEIJING -- Climate change will harm China's ecology and economy in the coming decades, possibly causing large drops in agricultural output, said a government report made public Wednesday.
The report, issued by six government departments including the State Meteorological Bureau, the China Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Technology, comes several days after state media said 2006 was hotter than average with more natural disasters than normal. |
2007-01-05 21:37:22
www.chinaview.cn BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Recently completed research reveals warmer oceans caused by global warming is making it more difficult for eelpouts to breath and survive.
Biologists have known for years declining fish stocks are connected to global warming, but a new study of eelpouts -- big-headed fish that resemble eels -- is the first to go deeper and see how warmer seas are connected to how fishes take in oxygen. |
By TOM TEEPEN
Times Union 3 Jan 07 Now 2007 is upon us, but not the white-fin dolphin. It's gone, too. Another year, another species.
A team of 25 scientists recently searched the Yangtze River, the dolphin's only home, and could find not a one. That was not a great surprise. The species was known to be in trouble. The last sighting was in 2004. Perhaps the search missed one or two of the dolphins. If so, no matter. The species is done for. The United Nation's environmental unit has declared the Yangtze a dead zone. This fresh-water dolphin had been on Earth 20 million years. Imagine that: 20 million. Geologic epochs came and went. The dolphin had taken the worst that volatile and violent nature could throw at them. They were no match for a man-made environment of overfishing, industrial development and intense shipping. |
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
UK Independent 02 January 2007 Why are we asking this question now?
As 2006 drew to a close, the polar bear was about to be classified as a threatened species by the United States Government. Melting Arctic sea ice could significantly reduce numbers of the world's largest terrestrial carnivore over the next 50 years. And, just before Christmas, a 38-day search for the Yangtze River dolphin ended without finding a single member of the species. It is feared that the aquatic mammal may be the latest in a long line of extinct animals. |
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
The Observer
22 Feb 04
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press 4 Jan 07 WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal to prod the Middle East peace process and said he was open to new ideas to combat global warming.
"I believe there is a chance now to put behind us the old stale debates of the past," Bush said at a joint White House news conference with the German leader. |
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