The top 10 ‘Planet Earth 2007’ science revelations
Top 10 Science Revelations:
1. Climate Change
2. Arctic Meltdown
3. Extreme Weather
4. Good and Bad News on Alternative
Energy
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Coral Cold Sores
7. Endangered Animals
8. Drought
9. Antarctic Surprises
10.
Impending Oil Peak (ANI)
Canadians might remember 2007 as the
year that climate change began biting deep and hard on the home front. At the
top of the world, the dramatic disappearance of Arctic sea ice -
reported in September - was so shocking that it quickly became our number one
weather story. Indeed, the United Nations declared the record loss of ice as
one of the world's biggest events. The thinning and shrinking of the ice,
largely a result of too many consecutive warm years, has had a profound
impact on northern residents - people, plants and wildlife alike.
The following Top Canadian Weather Stories for 2007 are rated from one to
ten based on factors that include the impact they had on Canada and
Canadians, the extent of the area affected, economic effects and longevity as
a top news story.
1.
Vanishing
Ice at the Top of the World
2.
BC's Long
Flood Threat
3.
Pre-Winter
Weather Mayhem from Coast to Coast
4.
Tropical
Summer on the Prairies
5.
Oh So Dry in
Southern Ontario
6.
Big Bad Noel
but No Juan
7.
Great Lakes
- How Low Will They Go?
8.
A Winter
That Wasn't - Almost!
9.
Record
Prairie Hailers
10.
Canada's
First F5 Tornado
Runner-up
Stories
1.
Some of the
Worst Prairie Flooding Ever
2.
Saskatoon's
Nastiest Blizzard in 50 Years
3.
West Nile
Virus Infects Record Numbers
4.
A
Valentine's Day "Weather Massacre"
5.
Ice along
the East Coast ? too Thin and too Thick
6.
The Wild
land Fire Season
7.
A
Thanksgiving Day Cooker
2007 was the second warmest year on record
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Top 11 warmest years have occurred in the last 13 years
ABC World News Tonight
on Climate Change video
World Meteorological Organization:
Last Decade Warmest on Record
By
Lisa Schlein
Geneva
13 December 2007
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A new report says the last decade is the
warmest on record. The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization
says data from around the world shows extreme weather patterns increasing in
every region. It says the data supports scientific claims that global
warming is occurring. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA.
The World Meteorological Organization says 2007 is shaping up to
be the fifth-warmest year on record. It says this past year has seen,
what it calls, a number of remarkable global climatic events.
December 26, 2007 - 7:34 am
By: Seth
Borenstein, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - When the
calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder.
January was the warmest first month on
record worldwide - 0.85 degrees Celsius above normal. It was the first time
since record-keeping began in 1880 that the globe's average temperature has
been so far above the norm for any month of the year.
And as 2007 drew to
a close, it was also shaping up to be the hottest year on record in the
Northern Hemisphere.
U.S. weather stations broke or tied 263
all-time high temperature records, according to an Associated Press analysis
of U.S. weather data.
From heat to
rain, 2007 a year of weather extremes
2007 a year of
climate surprises
From heat records, to drought and melting Arctic sea ice
Quotes
...hard by
flooding. "In terms of flooding,
the tropical area, which is usually affected by monsoon, was recording
extreme flooding events in Asia, India, Pakistan, Africa - where more than
25 million persons were affected" he said. '
Actually…
...he said. "Actually, the flooding in Africa, particularly West Africa,
Central Africa and East Africa was the worst recorded for many, many years." Bad dour says the
debate…
...projections. "When you have a single event, a single event - that means one
year or a single event during that year - we cannot attribute it directly
to global warming or climate change" he added. 'But, if…
...he added. "But, if you put the events all together on a long-term time
series, of course, this fits well with what the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change projected." Baddour notes the panel…
..spoke to the Nobel
audience, he said, "we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming
pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if
it were an open sewer. ... We are what is wrong, and we must make it
right." I still have a stack of greeting cards…
Southern California Deals with Snow and Floods
January 24 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Streets flooded, hillsides slipped and commuters
cursed this morning as the second in a series of three powerful winter storm
lashed Central and Southern California.
The National Weather Service says Los Angeles, Long Beach, Burbank and
Camarillo got more rain in the past five days than in all of 2007.
Harder Rain,
More Snow
Meteorologists
See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events
February
1, 2006 — While raising average global temperatures, climate change
could also bring more snow, harder rain, or heat waves, meteorologists say.
Computer models based on climate data from nine countries indicate every
place on the planet will be hit with extreme weather events, including
coastal storms and floods.
Global warming induced flood and rain drowning Africa
September
1, 2007 — Geographers have projected temperature increases due to
greenhouse gas emissions to reach a not-so-chilling conclusion: climate zones
will shift and some climates will disappear completely by 2100. Tropical
highlands and polar regions may be the first to disappear, and large swaths
of the tropics and subtropics will reach even hotter temperatures. The study
anticipates large climate changes worldwide.
Global warming may be behind El Nino’s altered behaviour
Cold climate? Don’t be fooled
Monday, February 11, 2008 | 08:51 AM ET
By Bob McDonald, host of the CBC science radio program Quirks &
Quarks.
Two major snowstorms in a week in central and eastern Canada, record
cold temperatures on the Prairies, winter tornadoes in the US. Every year around this time, when weird weather happens across
the country, people ask what happened to global warming and climate change?
Well, this is just a little reminder about the difference between
weather and climate. Weather is what you see out your window every day;
climate is the weather averaged over a period of time.
A common phrase is “Climate is what you expect, weather is
what you get.” Climate can relate to a region or the whole planet, and the time
period is usually 30 years - although now, with data from tree rings, ice
cores and the fossil record, climate can be measured over thousands or even
millions of years.
So, while it might seem like the planet is freezing around
your home this year, the big picture is quite different.
As Canadians dig out from under snow, the southwestern United
States is still in a state of multi-year drought, and Australia is rationing
water to its farmers. The sands of the Sahara Desert are creeping across
northern Africa and ice is disappearing from both poles. And don’t forget the
sweltering summers and record number of smog days we’ve had recently. The planet is still warming up.
March 2008 the warmest on record over world land surfaces
Updated Fri. Apr. 18 2008 9:02 AM ET
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Planet Earth continues to run a
fever. Last
month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the
second warmest overall worldwide. For the United States, however, it was just
an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
reported Thursday.
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said high temperatures over much of
Asia pulled the worldwide land temperature up to an average of 40.8 degrees
Fahrenheit (4.9 degrees Celsius), 3.2 degrees (1.8 C) warmer than the average
in the 20th century.
US Midwest Floods Show Impact of Global Warming
US: July 3, 2008
WASHINGTON - Floods like those that inundated the US Midwest are
supposed to occur once every 500 years but this is the second since 1993,
suggesting flawed forecasts that do not take global warming into account,
conservation experts said on Tuesday.
"While there may have been an expectation
that such floods would only happen every 500 years, scientists now warn that
climate change will make such floods far more frequent," Schweiger wrote.
"Climate change is not something that is
going to be smooth and linear," Pachauri told reporters. "We have
built in a certain inertia, but if we don't do something about the problem,
things will get much worse."
Early And Intense Tornado Season Could Be Record
June 4, 2008
This year may set records for tornadoes and
tornado-related deaths. “We’re only halfway through the tornado season and we have
already seen 111 tornado-related deaths, making this the deadliest tornado
season since 1998,” said Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at NOAA’s Storm
Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
Preliminary statistics from the National Weather Service show that
1,330 tornadoes have touched down so far this year, and the
year isn't even half over. That number will be lower once all duplicate
sightings are removed.
Updated Wed. Jan. 30 2008 3:15 PM ET
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- When the
water in the hurricane breeding grounds of the Atlantic warms one degree in
the dead of summer, overall hurricane activity jumps by half, according to a new
study.
Scientists have long known that hurricanes get
their enormous energy from warm waters, so the warmer the water, the more
fuel a storm has to either start up or get stronger. The study calculates how
much storm frequency and strength is due to warmer sea water, said author
Mark Saunders, professor of climate prediction at the University College
London.
Insured losses from natural disasters nearly doubled in 2007
Risks rise with global warming
By Geir Moulson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:49 a.m. December 27, 2007
BERLIN – Losses to insurers from natural disasters nearly doubled this
year to just below $30 billion globally after an unusually quiet 2006, a
leading reinsurer said Thursday, from winter storms in Europe, flooding in
Britain and wildfires in the U.S.
Munich Re warned that climate change could mean
a growing number of weather-related catastrophes in coming years.
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