Expect More Droughts, Heavy Downpours, Excessive Heat, And Intense Hurricanes Due To Global Warming, NOAA (Science Daily) The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research has released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. Among the major findings reported in this assessment are that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense ... [News Source]

Forecast is for more extreme weather

Droughts will get drier, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with warming climate across North America, U.S. government experts said in a report.

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Top of sea warming 50% faster than thought. The top few hundred metres of the world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster than previously thought during the past half century, a discovery that has solved an enduring puzzle about the world's rising sea levels. [News Source]

Oyster larvae hit by bacteria. Biologists are waging war against a bacteria in the Pacific that may be related to a "dead zone" of low oxygen plus warmer temperatures, and that has been killing oyster larvae and threatening to cripple the $111-million-a-year shellfish industry. [News Source]

Europe’s carbon market holds lessons for the U.S. As the United States moves toward action on global warming, practical experience with carbon markets in the European Union raises a critical question: Will such systems ever work? [News Source]

McCain pushes nuclear power. Sen. John McCain proposed Wednesday to dramatically increase America's commitment to nuclear power, calling for 45 new reactors by 2030 and a long-term goal of 100 such plants across the country. [News Source]

Climate change: Will we recognize Cape? No more Cape Cod lobsters, cranberries or Nauset Beach. Sweltering heat with more than 60 days each year exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit, two dozen days that top 100 and drastic adjustments to the way we live. [News Source]

Scientists fighting disease with climate forecasts. With climate change come new threats to life, and scientists hope to be able to better predict them as they forecast the weather. [News Source]

Australia food bowl areas “beyond repair in months.” Parts of Australia's key Murray-Darling river food bowl may be beyond recovery unless a prolonged dry spell and political wrangling over water use ends by October, a leaked scientific report warned on Wednesday. [News Source]

Oceans warm more quickly than suspected: Study. The world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported Wednesday. [News Source]

Arctic sea ice melt ‘even faster’. Arctic sea ice is melting even faster than last year, despite a cold winter. [News Source]