9 Die as Tornadoes Tear Apart Kansas Town

Storm chaser Lance Ferguson followed the system which begun in the Oklahoma panhandle. "What was just amazing is that the storm system just kept regenerating, it just kept recycling and kept doing its thing … Mother Nature's fury at its best," he told KWCH. "To see a tornado down on the ground for that long and to become that massive and that big, I haven’t seen anything like it before," he said. "It just kept getting wider and wider and wider."

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Powerful Tornadoes Devastate SW Kansas (CBS/AP)
9 Die as Tornadoes Tear Apart Kansas Town (NYT/AP)
NYT May 5, 2007 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) -- Tornadoes killed at least nine people and leveled most of this southwest Kansas town, a state official said Saturday. Rescuers with dogs searched door to door for survivors.
The dead include six in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one in nearby Stafford County, said Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department.
The tornado that struck Greensburg late Friday damaged about 90 percent of the town about 110 miles west of Wichita, City Administrator Steve Hewitt said Saturday.
Dazed residents walked the streets, looking for loved ones and taking in the sight of crumbled buildings and smashed cars in the town of some 1,600 people.
Much of downtown was destroyed, along with City Hall, the high school and the junior high school, Hewitt said.
''I don't think we have a business left downtown,'' he said. A mandatory evacuation was ordered, he said.
Emergency personnel and search and rescue teams raced to Greensburg ... full text

Climate Panel Reaches Consensus on the Need to Reduce Harmful Emissions

"have to be a century-long transition to energy sources that have no impact on the climate" A century long???

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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change (Hardcover)

NYT May 4, 2007
Climate Panel Reaches Consensus on the Need to Reduce Harmful Emissions
By ANDREW C. REVKIN and SETH MYDANS
BANGKOK, May 4 — The world’s established and emerging powers will need to divert substantially from today’s main energy sources within a few decades, to limit centuries of rising temperatures and seas driven by the buildup of heat-trapping emissions in the air, the top body studying climate change has concluded.
In an all-night session capping four days of talks, economists, scientists, and government officials from more than 100 countries agreed in Bangkok early today on the last sections of a report outlining ways to limit such emissions, led by carbon dioxide, an unavoidable byproduct of burning coal and oil.
The final report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said prompt slowing of emissions could set the stage later in the century for stabilization of the concentration of carbon dioxide. Now at about 380 parts per million, the concentration has risen by more than one-third since the start of the industrial revolution, and could easily double from pre-industrial level within decades.
The report concluded that significant progress could be made toward halting the increase in the next 25 years using known technologies and policy changes, setting the stage for what would have to be a century-long transition to energy sources that have no impact on the climate.
Several authors said its message was clear.
“We can no longer make the excuse that we need to wait for more science, or the excuse that we need to wait for more technologies ...full text

Arctic melt faster than forecast

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Arctic melt faster than forecast
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers.
Since 1979, the Arctic has been losing summer ice at about 9% per decade, but models on average produce a melting rate less than half that figure.
The scientists suggest forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too cautious.
The latest observations indicate that Arctic summers could be ice-free by the middle of the century.
"Somewhere in the second half of the century, it would happen," said Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado.

The fact that all models show ice loss over the observed period and all project large ice losses into the future is a very strong message Marika Holland
"Some computer models show periods of great sensitivity ..full text