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For 110 years, climate change has been in the news. Are we finally ready to listen? Published: August 15, 2022 7.47am BST Linden Ashcroft   Lecturer in climate science and science communication, The University of Melbourne On August 14 1912, a small New Zealand newspaper published a short article announcing global coal usage was affecting our planet’s temperature. This piece from 110 years ago is now famous, shared across the internet this time every year as one of the first pieces of climate science in the media (even though it was actually a reprint of a piece published in a New South Wales mining journal a month earlier). This short 1912 article made the direct link between burning coal and global temperature changes. The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, National Library of Australia The fundamental science has been understood for a long time American scientist and women’s rights campaigner Eunice Foote is now widely credited as being the first person to demonstr...

Deadly heat, wildfires, heavy rain point to global warming: experts Aug 09, 2018   by  Donovan Vincent   Toronto Star This summer’s extreme heat, wildfires, heavy rains, flooding are all indicators of global warming, experts say          Police officers wade through water flooding an underpass on King St. W. during heavy rain in Toronto on Tuesday. - Shlomi Amiga,                 THE CANADIAN PRESS Extreme and deadly heat in Europe, Asia and across Canada and the U.S. Wildfires in California, British Columbia and here in Ontario, in Parry Sound and North Bay. Tuesday night's flood in Toronto that saw more than 70 millimetres of rain dumped downtown in two hours. Climate experts say it's all part of a trend the planet has been experiencing for the past 30 years, one we should expect to continue over the coming decades. "It's not new weather, just a more extreme (version) of the old weather. T...

A woman cools down in a water fountain as she beats the heat in Montreal on Monday, July 2, 2018.   THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Climate change can be deadly if you live alone August 2, 2018 8.59am AEST Cities around the globe felt  record-breaking,   red-hot temperatures  this July: In the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Algeria, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Oman and China, the thermostat reached all-time highs. In the Canadian province of Quebec, a weeklong heatwave was linked to 74 deaths, making it  the province’s second deadliest period of extreme heat since the summer of 2010 . At the peak of the heatwave, on Tuesday, July 3, 2018,  Montréal recorded its highest temperature in history  (36.6 C) and posted its most extreme midnight combination of heat and humidity. The stifling temperatures continued for most of the week. Quebecers felt the heat. By Wednesday of that week, Montréal ambulance services were so busy that people ...

Climate change to bring North Texas longer droughts, heavy rains, 120-degree temps within 25 years   Anna Kuchment, Science writer Editor's Note: This story originally published Feb. 15. We're bringing it back as high temperatures soar across North Texas. The United States has just come off a record year for weather and climate disasters and, by most accounts, it's only going to get worse. Last year hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria; the wildfires and floods in California; and tornado outbreaks in the Midwest and the South delivered $306.2 billion in damages, more than any year in history when adjusted for inflation. Texas is particularly  vulnerable to a changing climate. It has had more costly weather-related disasters than any other state, and those events will happen more often as air and ocean temperatures climb, scientists say. "Climate change is not just about polar bears," said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University with an ...

Heat Waves Can Seriously Harm Brain Performances By  Kay Vandette ,  Earth.com  Staff Writer  on 07.10.2018 Global temperatures are on the rise. 2016 was the world’s warmest year since  record keeping began in the 1880s , 2017 was the hottest year on record for  Earth’s oceans , and this week, much of the globe has battled intense heat. Heat waves have been sweeping across Europe, the UK and North America, and exposure to long bouts of extreme heat is the leading cause of death compared to any other meteorological events in the US. During heat waves, the elderly and very young are said to be the most at  risk of suffering health problems , however as a new study found this has created a research gap in the effect of extreme heat on healthy individuals. Researchers led by the  Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health  examined the impacts of a heat wave on cognitive functioning for students who lived in non-air-conditioned dorms. The s...