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Warning: 100-year climate disasters every 100 days
2013-09-25 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MarketWatch: Warning: 100-year megafires, 100-year megafloods, 100-year droughts and all the other 100-year-cycle climate-change and global-warming disasters that are supposed to happen somewhere around the world once a century? Science is now telling us theyre happening every 100 days or less. And thats not only costly for the world, the news is bad for climate-science deniers. Breaking news tells the real story ... Colorado flooding out of control... Arizona megafires ... Oklahoma tornadoes ... Jersey...
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Climate Change Reporting Focuses on Disasters and Uncertainty, Study Finds
2013-09-18 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Nearly 80 percent of news articles about climate change either warn of current or future disaster scenarios related to global warming, or contain discussions about the uncertainty of climate science, an Oxford study of 350 news articles from 2007 to 2012 has found. Fewer than two percent of the articles from the media in six countries discussed opportunities to be gained from switching to a lower-carbon economy. Journalists were attracted to "gloom and doom" stories about climate-related disasters,...
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UN framework for action on disasters 'set to fail'
2013-09-06 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Earthquake risk in developing countries is predicted to rise significantly and so more effective mitigation strategies that combine scientific evidence with economic incentives are needed, according to a paper published today in Science. The rising risk is outpacing risk reduction efforts and the UN is unlikely to meet its goal of substantially reducing losses from earthquakes by 2015, as set out in the Hyogo Framework for Action, the paper says. "The task of reducing earthquake risk must be viewed...
India must stop viewing disasters as acts of God - report
2013-08-29 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India must stop viewing natural disasters as stand-alone acts of God or nature and recognise that its development policies are increasing the number of deaths and amount of devastation caused by such calamities, a new report says. Written by academics, aid workers, scientists and analysts, the "India Disasters Report" says that development works carried out in pursuit of greater economic growth, such as the construction of dams and unsafe buildings, are putting people and the environment at greater...
Energy Department Release New Report on Resiliency of Electric Grid During Natural Disasters
2013-08-13 21:05:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The White House Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Department of Energy this week released a new report that assesses how to best protect the nations electric grid from power outages that occur during natural disasters. read more
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