Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Daily News: Weather News Headlines - US syrup makers produce record 3.2 million gallons

Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:23 PM PDT
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US syrup makers produce record 3.2 million gallons 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:23 PM PDT
U.S. syrup makers had a sweet year, producing a record 3.2 million gallons. The Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday that 2013 production jumped 70 percent over 2012, boosted by ideal weather conditions ...
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Thursday’s Expected Severe Weather Driven By ‘Derecho’ Phenomenon 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 11:56 AM PDT
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Cuba girds for climate change by reclaiming coasts 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 11:50 AM PDT
In this May 24, 2013 photo, a girl walks her dog near the remains of a destroyed school on the shores of Havana, Cuba. Cuban scientists have studied this island nation's coastline, calculating what would happen under the continued pressure of climate change. What they discovered was so alarming that more than a year later, officials still haven't released them widely to avoid causing panic. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)CAYO COCO, Cuba (AP) — After Cuban scientists studied the effects of climate change on this island's 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) of coastline, their discoveries were so alarming that officials didn't share the results with the public to avoid causing panic.
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Protecting NYC: Mayor's plan, successor's question 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 11:49 AM PDT
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks while a map of the projected 2050s 100-year flood plain of New York City is displayed in New York, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Removable flood walls would be set up for much of lower Manhattan, a 15-to-20-foot levee would guard part of Staten Island and gates and levees would shield Brooklyn as part of a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York City from storms and the effects of global warming. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — A $20 billion plan to gird New York with levees, flood gates and other defenses is a bold stroke from a mayor who saw the city through Superstorm Sandy and has championed preparedness for global warming. But the future of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's sweeping proposals will largely rest with his successor.
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Meteorologist: Be Prepared For Severe Weather Event Thursday 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 11:41 AM PDT
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Unusually massive line of storms aim at Midwest 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 10:39 AM PDT
FILE - In this June 30, 2012, file photo, an American Beech tree is down on Capitol Hill grounds in Washington across from the U.S. Supreme Court after a powerful storm swept across the Washington region. A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms with tree-toppling winds is likely to threaten one in five Americans Wednesday is as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland, meteorologists warn. The massive storms may even spawn an unusual weather event called a derecho, which is a massive storm of strong straight-line winds spanning at least 240 miles. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)CHICAGO (AP) — The National Weather Service is upgrading the risk of storms to its highest alert level for parts of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
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US-China climate deal was long in the works 
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:42 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disparate interests ranging from environmental activists to businesses and industry are lining up to support a first-of-its-kind deal between the U.S. and China to phase out a chemical blamed for climate change.
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Op-Ed: The Phony ‘Debate’ Over Climate Change 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 09:55 PM PDT
In 2004, Naomi Oreskes published the first analysis examining the scientific consensus on climate change in published peer-reviewed research. She scanned over 900 climate papers from 1993 to 2003 to determine how many papers rejected the proposition that humans caused global warming. Remarkably, she found zero rejection papers. Oreskes' results were cited in An Inconvenient Truth to demonstrate the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change
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Midwest could see strong windstorms from derecho 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 09:16 PM PDT
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The National Weather Service was tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest on Tuesday that could spawn severe windstorms in major metropolitan areas with gusts as strong as 100 mph.
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Weather Service confirms 3 tornadoes in Md. 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 07:29 PM PDT
BALTIMORE (AP) — The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that three tornadoes touched down in Maryland.
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BLOG: June Storms Into Delaware Valley With Extreme Weather 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 05:48 PM PDT
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Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 05:08 PM PDT
FILE - This file photo of May 10, 2013 shows view of the Manhattan Bridge, left, and Brooklyn Bridge as seen from the 105th floor of One World Trade Center, in New York. Seven months after Superstorm Sandy swamped New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a nearly $20 billion plan Tuesday, June 11, 2013, to protect the city from the effects of global warming and storms. (AP photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming.
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New York lays out $20 billion plan to adapt to climate change 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 05:01 PM PDT
A home destroyed and abandoned after Hurricane Sandy is seen in the Oakwood Beach section of Staten Island in New York CityBy Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades. The ambitious proposal - which could become the benchmark for other cities dealing with climate change - could reshape Lower Manhattan's waterfront, with the possible addition of a "Seaport City" out of the East Side. ...
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National Weather Service Confirms Tornado Did Touch Down In Delaware 
Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 01:38 PM PDT
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