Headlines: Impacts: Catastrophic Weather
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- 2006: Drought, Floods, and Broken Records
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The Australian Alps had the thinnest and shortest snow season since at least 1982. Planet Earth had its sixth hottest year on record and a deluge of severe record-breaking weather, according to a new report.
- 2006 Warmest Year in Netherlands in 300 Years
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DE BILT, Netherlands - This year is on track to be the warmest in the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday, linking the record with global warming.
- Fake Snow in Alps, Moscow Blooms: Green Christmas?
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Alpine ski resorts are churning out artificial snow, daisies are flowering by the Kremlin in Moscow and retailers are fretting that Europeans are simply too warm to go Christmas shopping with a record mild winter.
- Global Warming Threatens to Put Spanish Ski Resorts Out of Business
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Global warming is threatening to put ski resorts out of business in Spain, where nearly all ski slopes are closed for lack of snow, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday. The Pyrenees only have a quarter of the amount of snow which is usual for the beginning of December, and the situation is similar in other wintersport areas.
- Rockies' Snowpack Shrinking
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The Rocky Mountains are seeing more rain than snow at the start and end of winter, an indication of global warming, an expert said.
- Dutch Bask in Warmest Autumn in Three Centuries
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The autumn of 2006 has been the warmest in the Netherlands for over 300 years, 12.5 percent hotter than the previous year which was already a record, meteorologists said.
- Weather Will Get More Extreme, Study Predicts
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The world — especially the Western United States, the Mediterranean region and Brazil — will likely suffer more extended droughts, heavy rainfalls and longer heat waves over the next century because of global warming, a new study forecasts.
- The Century Of Drought
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Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britains leading climate scientists.
- It Never Rains, But it Pours a Lot More
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Scotland is suffering four times more long spells of rain than it did 30 years ago, a study has revealed. All of Britain is getting wetter, according to researchers, who say it is further evidence of global warming.
- Northeast Floods Stir Global Warming Debate
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Images of swamped homes in the U.S. Northeast deepened suspicions over global warming, giving ammunition to scientists and others who say greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories are fueling extreme weather.
- Global warming Will Have Dire Effects
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Thanks in part to Al Gores new movie, more and more people know that heat-trapping pollution is warming the planet. Last year tied 1998 as the hottest year on record — followed closely by 2002, 2003 and 2004.
- 2 Studies Link Global Warming to Greater Power of Hurricanes
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Climate researchers at Purdue University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology separately reported new evidence yesterday supporting the idea that global warming is causing stronger hurricanes.
- Report: 5 NJ Coastal Landmarks at Risk From Global Warming
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TRENTON, N.J. -- By the end of the century, gamblers may be pulling up to Atlantic City casinos in gondolas instead of tour buses if the predictions of a New Jersey citizens group are correct.
- Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes
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MONTEREY, California (Reuters) - The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
- In Phoenix, Even Cactuses Wilt in Clutches of Record Drought
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Thursday began like the 141 days before it, sunny and crisp, dust settling everywhere except on the record — set again — for the number of days without rain.
- Glacier Melt Could Signal Faster Rise in Ocean Levels
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Greenlands glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly Earths oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said yesterday.
- Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream
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· Slowing of current by a third in 12 years could bring more extreme weather · Temperatures in Britain likely to drop by one degree in next decade
- Study Links Hurricanes to Global Warming
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An increase in the ferocity of hurricanes around the globe over the last 35 years may be attributable to global warming, a new report states.
- North America, Gulf Coast - Super Hurricanes on stereroids
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Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the smoking gun of global warming, one of Britains leading scientists believes.
