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| Climate Change Taking Major Toll Now, UN Report Says Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:06 PM PDT  Climate change has already taken a serious toll on human well-being and world economies, and the world is generally poorly prepared to deal with the immediate and future threats imposed by a warming planet. These are the results of the most recent report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group that has been developing reports on climate change since 1988. More than 700 scientific authors and editors contributed to the report that was released yesterday (March 30), titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," and many of those contributors convened in Yokohama, Japan, last week to share their findings with representatives of about 100 governments. "We do not only focus on heat waves, flooding, sea level rise, and other global and distant trends, but on their immediate effects on infrastructures, human health, water resources and other things we humans value," Patricia Romero-Lankao, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. and an author on the report, told Live Science while she was in Yokohama. Full Story | Top |
| La Mesa Weather Forecast for March 31 — April 4 Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:56 AM PDT  The National Weather Service forecast for La Mesa: Monday: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 66. Light southwest wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Monday Night: A 40 p Full Story | Top |
| Santee Weather Forecast for March 31 — April 4 Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:54 AM PDT  The National Weather Service forecast for Santee: Monday: Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 68. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Monday Night: A 40 Full Story | Top |
| Ramona Weather Forecast for March 31 — April 4 Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:50 AM PDT  Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Monday Night: Showers likely after 11pm. Increasing clouds, Full Story | Top |
| The new IPCC climate change report makes it official: We are flirting with self-destruction Monday, Mar 31, 2014 09:46 AM PDT The latest International Panel on Climate Change report is out, this one on the threats that climate change poses to human society (read the summary here). Like all reports from the United Nations panel, this one is pretty conservative. There are thousands of scientists involved, and so the organization is naturally drawn to lowest-common-denominator statements that won't cause lengthy disputes. Full Story | Top |
| Climate change threatens India's economy, food security: IPCC Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:45 AM PDT By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI, March 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change will slow its economic growth, impact health and development, make poverty reduction more difficult and erode food security, a new report by scientists said on Monday. The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stresses the risks of global warming and tries to make a stronger case for governments to adopt policy on adaptation and cut greenhouse gas emissions. "This is the most extensive piece of science done on climate adaptation up until now," Aromar Revi, one of the lead authors of the report, told a news conference. "The key issue as far as India is concerned is vulnerability and exposure." The report predicts a rise in global temperatures of between 0.3 and 4.8 degrees Celsius (0.5 to 8.6 Fahrenheit) and a rise of up to 82 cm (32 inches) in sea levels by the late 21st century due to melting ice and expansion of water as it warms, threatening coastal cities from Shanghai to San Francisco. Full Story | Top |
| Climate Change: More Violence, Less Food, and Embarrassment for Political Leaders Monday, Mar 31, 2014 07:22 AM PDT  A bleak report released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the fifth in a series, makes several things clear: climate change is well underway, it will affect food supplies and global stability, and politicians — particularly American ones — should be embarrassed at their inaction. It's hard not to see that the ongoing failure to address climate change is the biggest geopolitical misstep of the last 80 years. What the report says: Climate change is happening. The thawing permafrost means more organic material is decomposing, releasing even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Full Story | Top |
| Canada dollar firms after rebound in monthly GDP Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:46 AM PDT  By Leah Schnurr TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened against the greenback on Monday, boosted by data that showed the country's economy rebounded at a faster-than-expected pace in January. Canadian gross domestic product showed growth of 0.5 percent in January, bouncing back from a decline of 0.5 percent in December as the economy was hampered by unusually harsh winter weather. While there were some good underlying factors in the data, the move was likely a knee-jerk reaction from investors who have been bearish over Canadian economic data, said Scott Smith, senior market analyst at Cambridge Mercantile Group in Calgary. The Canadian dollar was at C$1.1021 to the greenback, or 90.74 U.S. cents, stronger than Friday's close of C$1.1060, or 90.42 U.S. cents. Full Story | Top |
| Costs of climate change steep but tough to tally Monday, Mar 31, 2014 05:19 AM PDT  YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The economic and financial impact of global warming is complex and not well understood. In some scenarios there would be economic benefits for countries that get warmer and wetter and consequently more fertile agriculturally. Drier weather in some regions would result in sharply lower crop yields. Full Story | Top |
| Global warming dials up our risks, UN report says Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:07 AM PDT  If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. ... Full Story | Top |
| UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:06 AM PDT  Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger "hotspots of hunger" among the world's ... Full Story | Top |
| Threat from global warming heightened in latest U.N. report Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:56 AM PDT  Global warming poses a growing threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, top scientists said in a report that urges swift action to counter the effects of carbon emissions. The latest report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the effects of warming are being felt everywhere, fuelling potential food shortages, natural disasters and raising the risk of wars. The report projects global warming may cut world economic output by between 0.2 and 2.0 percent a year should mean temperatures rise by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), estimates that many countries say are too low. "Over the coming decades, climate change will have mostly negative impacts," said Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), citing cities, ecosystems and water supply as being among the areas at risk. Full Story | Top |
| Kerry warns of climate change 'catastrophe' Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:43 AM PDT  US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned that failing to act immediately and decisively on climate change will have "catastrophic" and wide-ranging consequences. "Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy," Kerry, in Paris on Sunday for crunch talks with Russia over Ukraine, said in a statement, adding: "Denial of the science is malpractice." The United States and China are among the world's biggest polluters but Kerry said that "no single country causes climate change, and no one country can stop it". Full Story | Top |
| Nobody will escape the effects of climate change, UN warns Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:40 AM PDT  A United Nations panel today said that the effects of climate change are already being felt across the globe, warning in a major report that they will likely be "severe, pervasive, and irreversible" in the years to come. The report, released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concludes that rising global temperatures are already having clear impacts on agriculture, human health, and water supplies across all continents, oceans, and ecosystems. The IPCC noted that poor countries would be especially hard hit, due to lower crop yields and tighter water supplies, though it cautioned that all will feel the effects of climate change going forward. "Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change," IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri told reporters today. Full Story | Top |
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