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What are the health threats of flooding in our warming world?
Creative Commons: North Dakota National Guard, 2011 Extreme precipitation and flooding, likely on the rise in a warming world, carry significant and often hidden health risks, according to a report,...
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Carbon emissions hit a new record
Creative Commons: Jim Flanagan, 2005 Greenhouse gases have risen to their highest level since modern humans evolved, and Australian temperatures are now about a degree warmer than they were a century...
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New research connects extreme weather and climate change
Creative Commons: José Eugenio Gómez RodrÃguez, 2008 Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were “very likely” caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature...
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And Action! How TckTckTck partners are changing the world this week
Creative Commons: 350.org | ClimateDots.org, 2012 The climate movement is relentless, bringing you new research, new campaigns and powerful protests! Read on to see how we’re all working together to...
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New UN report reveals Mumbai, Miami on track for major climate disasters
Creative Commons: Jeff Nickel, 2008 Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather...
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Extreme weather and climate change: How much are you willing to gamble?
Creative Commons: Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties, 2010 Why do you fasten your seatbelt if you’ve only got a tiny chance of dying in a car accident? Why do you try to keep your kids from smoking, when a...
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Maggie Koerth-Baker: Climate change isn’t liberal or conservative, it’s reality
Courtesy: Maggie Koerth-Baker, 2012 Paul Douglas is a Minneapolis/St.Paul meteorologist. Meteorologists don’t study the same things as climate scientists—remember, weather and climate are different...
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New polling shows many people link weather extremes to climate change
Creative Commons: Steve Arnold, 2008 Scientists may hesitate to link some of the weather extremes of recent years to global warming — but the public, it seems, is already there. A poll due for...
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And Action! How TckTckTck partners are changing the world this week
From turning off lights across the globe, to transforming organizations to take on governments, to cleaning the cloud that powers your computer, our partners continue working and fighting to make the...
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Expert Spotlight: Bill Hare, Climate Analytics
Every so often, the TckTckTck team interviews one of the thought leaders and scientific experts whose work defines our movement. This week we are pleased to share an interview with Climate Analytics...
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Thousands connect the dots on 350.org’s Climate Impacts Day
Creative Commons: 350.org, 2012 All day today, our partners at 350.org have collected beautiful, emotional and striking images from across the world as part of Climate Impacts Day. On this day,...
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Why don’t meteorologists believe in climate change?
Creative Commons: Armistead Booker, 2005 In recent years, the world’s scientists have begun to show that climate change is altering the magnitude and frequency of severe weather, and polls say a...
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New study predicts disaster losses to outpace economic growth
Creative Commons: Thomas Hawk, 2006 Disaster losses in many low-and middle-income countries are likely to rise faster than economic growth unless governments change their economic policy to take...
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Record breaking drought in North and South Korea
Creative Commons: Brian Yap, 2006 North and South Korea are experiencing one of their worst droughts in decades. The government in Seoul has deployed workers, water pumps and emergency funds of around...
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Derecho storm kills 16, leaves 1.2 million without power in USA
Creative Commons: Bo Insogna, 2010 The Mid-Atlantic region is struggling to get back to normal after deadly, power-cutting storms and sweltering heat. And the death toll blamed on storms and the...
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Southern Russia receives three months of rain in one day
Creative Commons: Stephen Mackenzie, 2006 An extraordinary rainstorm in southern Russia set off floods that killed at least 104 people on Saturday, according to rescue officials. Many survivors...
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Heatwave bakes half the USA
Creative Commons: Eilleen McFall, 2008 Americans dipped into the water, went to the movies and rode the subway just to be in air conditioning Saturday for relief from unrelenting heat that has killed...
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Flooding in Wales & England after ‘endless’ rain
Creative Commons: Victoria Bensley, 2007 More flooding could be on its way, after forecasters warned that the miserable weather – which has seen record amounts of rain fall in April and June, parts...
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Massive wildfire in Montana scorches 250,000 acres
Creative Commons: NOAA Photo Library Firefighters expected to have the state’s largest wildfire contained Monday, but the victory could be short-lived with lightning, heat and 50 mph wind gusts...
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Infographic: Severe weather hits cities and villages around the world
Creative Commons: Calder Monroe, 2011 The world has recently experienced a series of calamitous weather events. News headlines have painted a grim picture: flooding, drought, landslides and record ice...
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Heat, winds fuel huge Idaho wildfire
Creative Commons: Rick Guy, 2012 The Kinyon Road Fire in Twin Falls County is the number one fire in the nation right now, and that government officials base that dubious distinction on complexity,...
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Floods shut down water supply for Chinese city
Creative Commons: Young Roc Chang, 2010 A water plant in the Chinese city of Lianyungang stopped seervice after being flooded by heavy rains, affecting the water supply to 50,000 households. The...
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Buckled asphalt and derailed trains: How a warming world can affect your commute
Creative Commons: Grant Hutchinson, 2007 Tired of sitting in airplanes that seem to taxi forever on the runway? Sick of waiting for crowded, delayed trains? Going insane sitting in your car in endless...
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Drought causes US to declare largest natural disaster area ever
Creative Commons: Patrick Feller, 2011 The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000...
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Deadly landslide inundates homes, killing 4 in small Canadian town
Creative Commons: B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, 2012 Industrial crews were trucking to the scene of a destructive landslide in southeastern British Columbia Thursday night to help...
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Record flooding forces widespread evacuations in Japan
Creative Commons: Richard Burghause, 2012 Police in southwestern Japan are searching for four missing people after record rains triggered landslides and flooding that killed 28 and forced almost a...
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Landslide traps 500 people at British Columbia mountain resort
Creative Commons: Emergency Info BC, 2012 A second landslide in British Columbia, about 45 kilometres east of Johnsons Landing where four people are presumed dead following Thursday’s mudslide, has...
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Typhoon Vicente whallops Hong Kong
Creative Commons: Nasa Goodard Space Flight Centre, 2010 A powerful typhoon slammed the Chinese territory of Hong Kong on Tuesday, injuring dozens, disrupting communications and bringing business to a...
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Extraordinary ice melt in Greenland
Creative Commons: Henry Patton, 2010 The surface of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said. Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took...
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Floods kill 77 in Beijing, China
Creative Commons: Tricia Wang, 2008 At least 77 people were killed by heavy rain in Beijing at the weekend, more than double the number previously said to have died, Xinhua news agency says....
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Extreme drought areas in USA nearly triple in 1 week
The drought gets worse: The US Drought Monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in key agricultural states has tripled in the past week. Furthermore, the amount of...
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Sudden rains flood Tianjin, China
Creative Commons: Matthew Stinson, 2008 A heavy downpour battered North China’s Tianjin on Thursday, flooding downtown streets and inundating vehicles. The Tianjin municipal government was on high...
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Derecho storm hits three states
Creative Commons: Adam Atom, 2012 The round of storms that touched down in the tri-state area Thursday night is being attributed to a weather phenomenon called derecho. A derecho is a line of intense...
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700M in the dark after blackouts in Northern India
Creative Commons: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre, 2011 More than 700 million people in India have been left without power in the world’s worst blackout of recent times, leading to fears that...
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Drought and devastation threaten millions in Africa’s Sahel
Creative Commons: Oxfam, 2011 More than one million children are at risk of severe malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa, according to two leading charities. World Vision and Save the...
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Arctic ice on track to match record low
Creative Commons: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, 2011 With about a month and a half remaining in the Arctic melt season, sea ice cover continues to decline at a rapid pace, and is currently on par...
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In the USA, July 2012 is warmest on record
Creative Commons: Eilleen McFall, 2008 July 2012 was officially not only the warmest July on record, but also the warmest month ever recorded for the lower 48 states, according to a report released...
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Tropical Storm Ernesto kills seven in Mexico
Creative Commons: Armistead Booker, 2005 In Veracruz state, two people were killed early Friday, including a teenage girl who was inside a car dragged by a river current and a 62-year-old man who was...
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Heatwave bakes western US states in triple digit temperatures
Creative Commons: Matthias Weinberger, 2012 Temperatures soared into triple digits across the western United States on Saturday as a continuing heat wave strained energy supplies and sent thousands to...
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Asian typhoons leave hundreds dead, millions displaced
Creative Commons: Roberto Saltori, 2011 Three typhoons that blasted across Chinese coastal areas in the past two weeks have caused 51 deaths and left 21 people missing as of Monday, according to the...
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Flooding in Nigeria’s plateau kills 33
Courtesy: NDPWD, 2011 At least 33 people have been killed by heavy flooding in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, relief official Abdussalam Muhammad has told the BBC. He said the floods had destroyed...
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Ireland blasted by worst storm in 25 years
Creative Commons: Eduardo Marquetti, 2006 Hurricane strength winds and rain lashed Ireland today in the worst summer storm to hit the east coast in 26 years. Forecasters compared the horrendous...
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Spanish wildfires threaten UNESCO World Heritage Site
Creative Commons: LluÃs Ribes Portillo, 2011 Fierce wildfires forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and were threatening some of Spain’s most precious natural parks, including one that is a...
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Oxfam: What more extreme weather may mean for future global food prices
Creative Commons: Howard Davies, 2012 With greenhouse gas emissions at an all time high, and the world lurching towards a third food price spike in four years following the worst US drought since...
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Friday, September 15th
tcktcktck’s Fresh Air Brief Welcome to this edition of the Fresh Air Brief, a weekly overview of trending climate news and upcoming meetings, events and issues that our tcktcktck partnersÂ...
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New study links North American weather disasters and climate change
Creative Commons: Steve Arnold, 2008 The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all continents since 1980, but the trend is steepest for North America where countries have...
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Superstorm Sandy is a climate wake-up call
Courtesy: NASA Goddard Photo & Video, 2012 I’ve been asked many times in the past 24 hours if climate change was the cause of the superstorm/post-tropical cyclone named Sandy. The answer is simple…...
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Dr. James Hansen: We must make the price of fossil fuels honest.
Creative Commons: World Development Movement, 2012 Will our short attention span be the end of us? Just a month after the second “storm of a century” in two years, the media moves on to the latest...
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Over 200,000 homeless in wake of Typhoon Bopha
Creative Commons: NASA Nearly 200,000 people are homeless and at least 313 dead after Typhoon Bopha swept across the south of the country. Civil defence chief Benito Ramos said the government’s...
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The U.S. drought in 2012 was estimated to have cost 1% of GDP — approximately $150B dollars. Source: Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. La entrada aparece primero en TckTckTck.
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