CLIMA: Otro año de El Niño
19.08.09 - Ginebra
El fenómeno meteorológico de El Niño, temible por las secuelas devastadoras que dejaron algunas de sus últimas apariciones en gran parte del mundo, sobre todo en 1997, está de vuelta, aunque esta vez se presenta "de débil a moderado", dijo la agencia especializada de la ONU. ... Un experto de la Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM), Rupa Kumar Kolli, precisó que El Niño/Oscilación del Sur (ENOS) quedó claramente establecido entre junio y julio, aunque informes de algunos servicios meteorológicos nacionales dieron por consolidado el fenómeno ya en mayo.
U.N. reports ‘weak to moderate’ El Nino in Pacific
19.08.09 - Geneva
A “weak to moderate” El Nino weather system has developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean and could create unusual weather patterns around the world through March, a U.N. agency said today. The condition, which is linked to warmer surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during the latter months of the year, is already being associated with an intense drought in south Asia, said Rupa Kumar Kolli, of the World Meteorological Organization.
El Nino blamed for intense drought in Asia
20.08.09 - Geneva
A "weak to moderate" El Nino climate pattern has developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean and could create unusual weather patterns around the world through March, a U.N. agency said Wednesday. The condition, which is linked to warmer surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during the latter months of the year, is already being associated with an intense drought in south Asia, said Rupa Kumar Kolli, of the World Meteorological Organization.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2009-08-19-el-nino-asia_N.htm
UN weather body sees "weak to moderate" El Nino
19.08.09 - Geneva
An El Nino building up in the Pacific looks like being only a mild version of the phenomenon that has in the past brought devastation around the globe, the United Nations weather agency WMO said on Wednesday. But the World Meteorological Organization warned that even a weak El Nino -- a phenomenon in which changing sea temperatures in the Pacific Ocean affect weather around the world -- could seriously disturb normal climate patterns in many regions, bringing drought to some places and heavy storms to others.
Disruptive El Nino climate pattern to last into 2010: agency
19.08.09 - Geneva
The World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday that an El Nino current now in the Pacific Ocean would probably last into 2010, promising unpredictable disruption to weather around the globe. In June and July, sea surface temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific area were about 0.5 to one degree Celsius warmer than usual at this time of the year, the WMO said in an update on the climate pattern.
http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/090819152526.twb4hdfe.html
El Nino effect behind weak monsoon, says WMO
20.08.09 - Geneva
Rising temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, known as El Nino conditions, have contributed to the weak monsoon and drought in India among other factors, said Rupa Kumar Kolli, a senior oceanography analyst with the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “The development of a basin-wide El Nino has implications for the expected climate patterns in many parts of the world,” he said, suggesting that regional impacts were provided by respective countries. However, it is difficult to rule out the influence of El Nino over the weak monsoon in South Asia among other factors,” the WMO analyst said.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/el-nino-effect-behind-weak-monsoon-says-wmo/367595/
Australia Approves Law to Boost Renewable Energy Four-Fold
20.08.2009
Australia’s Senate passed a bill requiring that the nation derive 20 percent of its power from renewable energy, less than a week after rejecting broader legislation aimed at reducing carbon pollution.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=ajLhtH6Vnsoo
Budget cut to keep Maldives away from UN climate talks
19.08.2009 - Male
The Maldives on Wednesday said a budget crisis will keep its president from attending landmark U.N. climate talks, the results of which could have a huge effect on the future of the low-lying archipelago.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL342180.htm
Ethiopia: Lack of Capacity, Delegates Snag in LDC Climate Negotiation
19.08.09 - Addis Ababa
Lack of capacity and shortage in number of delegates for negotiations is one of the major snags for most of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the climate change negotiations, it was disclosed.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200908190772.html
Weak forest definition may undermine REDD efforts
20.08.09
The weak definition of what constitutes forest under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) puts the effectiveness of a
proposed mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and
degradation (REDD) at risk, argue researchers writing in the journal
Conservation Letters.
Climate ‘will hit women hard’
20.08.09
POOR women farmers comprise the group likely to be hardest hit by climate
change in Africa , leading to poverty and greater dependence on the state.
http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=79033
Lower temperatures grist for global warming debate
19.08.09 - Washington
Has Earth's fever broken? Official government measurements show that the
world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in
1998. That's given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions are ill-founded and unnecessary.
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