Welcome to The Global Warming Foundation.
The purpose of this site is to inform you about Global Warming. We endeavor to compile all the latest weather related articles and news stories from around the world to keep you informed.
At this point, there is no question of whether Global Warming is coming. It is already here. We at The Global Warming Foundation are tracking the increased number of global weather affects. We have gone from a time when severe weather events were rare to this juncture when we see bizarre, damaging, and even deadly weather events occurring multiple times each week, if not daily. We realize that different people are at different levels of realization, which range from oblivious; to denial; to green/ helpful; to ensuring survival. Our raison d’etre is to be of service for all those who suffer the concerns of living in the reality of this unprecedented change. Where we see a need, we are filling it. See below, and you will find a compilation of recent world weather events. Scroll down and find how much is happening so quickly. You will find other help with our links.
Our next project is to develop estimates of timing. We know that the frequency of weather events is increasing, and we are plotting the curve on which we are now progressing. Next, we will build a network of volunteer correspondents around the globe, where their reports will be calculated and visualized individually and collectively.
Feel free to contact us. We are here for you. We would appreciate any volunteers who want to participate. We are also seeking financial contributions to achieve our goals. In this vein, we have applied for our 501(c)(3) exemption under the IRS Code.
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-01.31.10- Heavy flooding in southern Peru, which trapped thousands of tourists visiting the Inca city of Machu Picchu, has killed 20 and left at least five missing, Peru's Civil Defense force said Saturday.... (
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Six evacuated from East Cape village, SH5 closed
-01.31.10- State Highway 5 between Napier and Taupo has been closed to all traffic and six people have been evacuated from a small settlement north of Gisborne as rivers swollen by heavy rain in the region threaten to flood. ... (
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Winter storm hits mid-South hard
-01.30.10- A storm has barreled into the Southeast and sections of the Northeast, coating power lines and roads with ice and leaving thousands without power.
More heavy snow was predicted for Mid-Atlantic cities, some of which already have record amounts, the National Weather Service said Saturday.
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Drought hits quarter mln people in China sugar bowl
-01.30.10- The southern Chinese sugar-producing region of Guangxi is suffering from a prolonged drought which has left almost a quarter of a million people without enough drinking water, state media said on Saturday.... (
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Coral in Florida Keys suffers lethal hit from cold
-01.30.10- Bitter cold this month may have wiped out many of the shallow water corals in the Keys. Star and brain corals, large species that can take hundreds of years to grow, were as white and lifeless as bones, frozen to death. There were also dead sea turtles, eels and parrotfish littering the bottom.... (
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‘Wet’ snowpack brings flood potential on Minnesota River
-01.30.10- Spring flooding is expected in the upper Minnesota River watershed this spring due to a higher-than-normal water content in the snowpack in western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota. ... (
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Tropical Storm Nisha being battered by wind shear
-01.29.10- Nisha is not expected to maintain its tropical storm status this weekend, because it is being battered by wind shear.... (
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Tropical Storm Olga: Three times a lady
-01.29.10- Just like 1980s song by the Commodores, "Three Times a Lady," Olga has become a tropical storm for the third time in northern Australia. NASA satellite imagery showed that Olga's center moved back into the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria and it has regained strength.... (
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Storm moves east after dumping snow on Texas, Oklahoma
-01.29.10- A major winter storm with heavy snow and ice was heading from Texas and Oklahoma to points east, with 8 to 10 inches of snow possible in some locales, the National Weather Service said Friday.... (
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Machu Picchu airlift rescues hundreds of tourists
-01.29.10- About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links.... (
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New arrivals await airlift at Peru's Machu Picchu
-01.28.10- Hundreds of tourists emerged from a grueling 28-mile (45 km) trek along Peru's Inca trail on Thursday to find the ancient Machu Picchu ruins cut off by floods and mudslides, and joined the 1,200 or so travelers waiting to be airlifted out.... (
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Tropical Depression 11S forms in the southern Indian Ocean
-01.28.10- The eleventh tropical depression formed today in the Southern Indian Ocean south of Port Louis. It will continue on a southeasterly track and move into open ocean.... (
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NASA's TRMM sees Depression 10P strengthen into Tropical Storm Nisha
-01.28.10- The tenth tropical depression in the Southern Pacific Ocean has strengthened overnight and has been dubbed "Tropical Storm Nisha" and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission has watched the storm's precipitation increase since yesterday.... (
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Olga restrengthens into a tropical storm
-01.27.10- Residents of the northern coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory and NASA's Aqua satellite have seen new life "blown into" a low pressure system that is once again Tropical Storm Olga.... (
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Australia "faces worse bushfires without CO2 deal"
-01.27.10- Australia faces a possible 300 percent increase in extreme bushfires by 2050 unless world leaders can agree to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said on Thursday.... (
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Charting unknown Himalayan waters
-01.27.10- In the wake of a recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers in which the UN's climate science body admitted that it was an error to assert that they would disappear by 2035, water availability has emerged as a key issue with even more uncertainty.... (
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Eastern Syria grapples with drought, poverty
-01.27.10- Syrian officials addressing a rare public forum have revealed the full impact of a drought that ravaged the 2008 wheat crop and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the east of the country.... (
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Floods kill 12 people, destroy crops in Bolivia
-01.27.10- Floods, heavy rains and hail storms have killed at least 12 people in Bolivia in recent weeks and have wiped out more than 17,300 acres (7,000 hectares) of crops, local media reported on Wednesday. ... (
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Factbox: Drought, poverty in eastern Syria
-01.27.10- officials have held an unusually frank discussion about a drought in the eastern region that ravaged the wheat crop and caused massive displacement of the population.... (
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Arctic 'Melt Season' Is Growing Longer, New Research Demonstrates
-01.27.10- New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years, or 6.4 days per decade. The finding stems from scientists' work to compile the first comprehensive record of melt onset and freeze-up dates -- the "melt season" -- for the entire Arctic. ... (
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Rains in Brazil fill 2 dams, threaten more floods
-01.27.10- Brazilian officials say heavy rains have filled two dams to capacity in Sao Paulo state, threatening 12 soaked cities with more flooding. ... (
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Peru mudslides strand Machu Picchu tourists, 5 dead
-01.26.10- Peru scrambled helicopters to evacuate some 2,000 tourists stranded in the Andes on Tuesday after torrential rains and mudslides killed 5 people and cut off access to Peru's ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
Tourists became trapped at the World Heritage site in the jungle in eastern Peru after the heaviest rains in the area in 15 years flooded the zone over the weekend.
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Europe cold weather kills dozens
-01.26.10- A severe cold snap across Central and Eastern Europe has killed dozens of people in recent days, officials say.... (
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Winter storm hammers Plains, Midwest
-01.25.10- A winter storm that moved across several Midwestern states Monday brought fierce winds and light snow that was easily blown around, leaving travelers stranded and closing some schools and businesses.... (
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Red River flood risk seen high, but less than 2009
-01.25.10- The Red River has the potential for major spring flooding in Manitoba and North Dakota, Canadian and U.S. forecasters said on Monday, but it's unlikely to be as severe as last year, when floodwaters swamped fields and left many farmers unable to plant crops.
High soil moisture before winter and high levels on tributaries feeding into the Red River in North Dakota have raised the flood threat, but that has been partly offset by less precipitation in the U.S. state during autumn and early winter, the forecasters said.
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EGYPT: Displaced flood victims still waiting for aid
-01.25.10- Days after flash floods killed several people and forced hundreds of families out of their damaged homes in the Sinai Peninsula, government assistance is yet to arrive, survivors say. ... (
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United Nations warns extreme cold, heavy snow in Mongolia threatens lives
-01.25.10- The United Nations has warned that extreme winter weather that has killed more than one million livestock in Mongolia is likely to worsen the country's food security and poverty and increase migration.... (
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The National Geographic archives: Antarctica's glacial melt
-01.25.10- Antarctica's rapidly disappearing glaciers are an ominous sign of global warming... (
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Maximum height of extreme waves up dramatically in Pacific Northwest
-01.25.10- A major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a "100-year event" might be, and the new findings raise special concerns for flooding, coastal erosion and structural damage...Increasing wave heights, they said, have had double or triple the impact in terms of erosion, flooding and damage as sea level rise over the last few decades.... (
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Olga weakens, heavy rain still expected
-01.24.10- Olga crossed the coast north of Port Douglas at about 2pm (AEST) on Sunday as a category one cyclone, far weaker than the category two system, with winds of up to 140km/h, that had been expected.... (
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Tropical storm Olga
-01.24.10- Tropical storm Olga struck Australia at about 00:00 GMT on 24 January. Olga brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 92 km/h (57 mph). Wind gusts in the area may have been considerably higher. ... (
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Floods force 200 families from homes in Tijuana
-01.23.10- Floods have forced at least 200 families from their homes in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, while the search continues for two children swept away by a torrent of water, authorities said Friday.... (
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Arizona flooding woes
-01.22.10- CNN's Ali Velshi talked with KTVK's Javier Soto about the flooding situation in one Arizona community.
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Los Angeles faces flood warning amid heavy storms
-01.22.10- An estimated 800 homes in the Los Angeles area remain evacuated under threat of mudslides as storms cause renewed transport chaos and power cuts. ... (
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Tropical storm Magda
-01.22.10- Tropical storm Magda struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 22 January. ... (
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Tornado strikes Huntsville, Ala.
-01.22.10- in Huntsville say the city's Five Points area is getting back to normal after a tornado struck, knocking down power lines and injuring about half a dozen people.... (
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California catches break in heavy rains
-01.22.10- After a week-long pounding of heavy rain, wind and surf, Southern California looked forward to the end of a series of Pacific storms that forced the evacuation of people from hundreds of homes and raised fears of killer mudslides.
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Los Angeles faces flood warning amid heavy storms
-01.22.10- An estimated 800 homes in the Los Angeles area remain evacuated under threat of mudslides as storms cause renewed transport chaos and power cuts. ... (
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Boy swept away in Arizona flooding; L.A. evacuation lifted
-01.22.10- As floodwater raged around their pickup, the family of a 6-year-old Arizona boy escaped to higher ground. The boy, however, was swept away. Teams were looking for his body on Friday, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.
Meanwhile, an evacuation order for some Los Angeles, California, residents was lifted, and the mayor said those people can safely return home
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Tornado Touches Down In Viera, Homes Damaged
-01.22.10- The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down just after 7:00am Friday, with winds at 65 to 75 mph. It was on the ground for six miles and started at Jacques Drive in Viera (see map) and ended at Del Sol Drive in Merritt Island.... (
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Terra satellite captures cyclone Magda's Australian landfall
-01.22.10- When Cyclone Magda made landfall from Collier Bay at around 5 a.m. local time on January 22 in northern Australia, NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the storm. Magda is now dissipating rapidly over land in northern West Australia.... (
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Tropical Storm Magda puts North Western Australian on alert
-01.21.10- An area of low pressure in the Southern Indian Ocean, located close to Australia's northwestern coast was being watched for development yesterday. This morning it exploded into Tropical Storm Madga. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite noticed that Magda's outer rainbands were already affecting land today..... (
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Global warming opens up Arctic for undersea cable
-01.21.10- Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.... (
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TANZANIA: Floods affect 28,000 in central regions
-01.21.10- At least 28,000 people are dependent on emergency food and other relief supplies in the central Tanzanian regions of Dodoma and Morogoro following floods, which also damaged transport infrastructure, according to officials. ... (
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Storms bring badly needed snow, rain to California
-01.21.10- The winter storms slamming California this week have dumped so much snow in its mountain ranges that snowpack water content levels were above normal on Thursday, a welcome sign in a state that had resorted to rationing after three years of drought.... (
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Sunset Beach California tornado footage
-01.21.10- Live footage from Sunset Beach, California. Dick Deluxe Egner a local musician/web guy and pal Sean Donnery capture a rare SoCal tornado outside the office.
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Californias flee mudslide
-01.21.10- Mandatory evacuations are in place for parts of Southern California as heavy rains soak loose ground.
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2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade
-01.21.10- 2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, a new NASA analysis of global surface temperature shows. The analysis, conducted by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, also shows that in the Southern Hemisphere, 2009 was the warmest year since modern records began in 1880. ... (
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Dense fog causes travel chaos in Delhi
-01.21.10- A dense fog and severe cold continue to grip northern India, causing major disruptions to air and rail traffic.... (
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Melting Himalayan Glaciers Scientist Says He Was Misquoted
-01.20.10- Syed Iqbal Hasnain, the Indian scientist credited with saying Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035, denied making the assertion published in the United Nations’ most comprehensive report on climate change. “I had simply told the New Scientist in an interview that the mass of the glaciers will decline in 40 years,” Hasnain said in a telephone interview. “The date (2035) was their invention. I was misquoted in the report.” ... (
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-01.31.10- State Highway 5 between Napier and Taupo has been closed to all traffic and six people have been evacuated from a small settlement north of Gisborne as rivers swollen by heavy rain in the region threaten to flood. ... (
-01.29.10- Nisha is not expected to maintain its tropical storm status this weekend, because it is being battered by wind shear.... (
-01.29.10- About 1,400 tourists have been airlifted from near the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru following floods that destroyed road and rail links.... (
-01.28.10- The eleventh tropical depression formed today in the Southern Indian Ocean south of Port Louis. It will continue on a southeasterly track and move into open ocean.... (
-01.28.10- The tenth tropical depression in the Southern Pacific Ocean has strengthened overnight and has been dubbed "Tropical Storm Nisha" and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission has watched the storm's precipitation increase since yesterday.... (
-01.27.10- Residents of the northern coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory and NASA's Aqua satellite have seen new life "blown into" a low pressure system that is once again Tropical Storm Olga.... (
-01.27.10- In the wake of a recent controversy over the retreat of Himalayan glaciers in which the UN's climate science body admitted that it was an error to assert that they would disappear by 2035, water availability has emerged as a key issue with even more uncertainty.... (
-01.27.10- New NASA-led research shows that the melt season for Arctic sea ice has lengthened by an average of 20 days over the span of 28 years, or 6.4 days per decade. The finding stems from scientists' work to compile the first comprehensive record of melt onset and freeze-up dates -- the "melt season" -- for the entire Arctic. ... (
-01.26.10- A severe cold snap across Central and Eastern Europe has killed dozens of people in recent days, officials say.... (
-01.25.10- A winter storm that moved across several Midwestern states Monday brought fierce winds and light snow that was easily blown around, leaving travelers stranded and closing some schools and businesses.... (
-01.25.10- A major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a "100-year event" might be, and the new findings raise special concerns for flooding, coastal erosion and structural damage...Increasing wave heights, they said, have had double or triple the impact in terms of erosion, flooding and damage as sea level rise over the last few decades.... (
-01.22.10- An estimated 800 homes in the Los Angeles area remain evacuated under threat of mudslides as storms cause renewed transport chaos and power cuts. ... (
-01.22.10- Tropical storm Magda struck Australia at about 06:00 GMT on 22 January. ... (
-01.22.10- in Huntsville say the city's Five Points area is getting back to normal after a tornado struck, knocking down power lines and injuring about half a dozen people.... (
-01.22.10- When Cyclone Magda made landfall from Collier Bay at around 5 a.m. local time on January 22 in northern Australia, NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the storm. Magda is now dissipating rapidly over land in northern West Australia.... (
-01.21.10- An area of low pressure in the Southern Indian Ocean, located close to Australia's northwestern coast was being watched for development yesterday. This morning it exploded into Tropical Storm Madga. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite noticed that Magda's outer rainbands were already affecting land today..... (
-01.21.10- Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.... (