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Preparing for climate change-induced weather disasters
2013-02-16 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EurekAlert: The news sounds grim: mounting scientific evidence indicates climate change will lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather that affects larger areas and lasts longer. However, we can reduce the risk of weather-related disasters with a variety of measures, according to Stanford Woods Institute Senior Fellow Chris Field. Field will discuss how to prepare for and adapt to a new climate at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Boston. Field's talk,...
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Crying wolf over disasters undermines future warnings
2013-02-06 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Disaster warnings can be fast, but how can we also ensure their accuracy and credibility, ask Rohan Samarajiva and Nalaka Gunawardene. The challenge with disaster warnings is to make the best possible decisions quickly using imperfect information. With lives and livelihoods at stake, there is much pressure to get it right. But one can't be timely and totally accurate at the same time. Only governments can balance these factors. No other entity can take on the responsibilities and attendant...
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Europe 'has failed to learn from environmental disasters'
2013-01-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Europe has failed to learn the lessons from many environmental and health disasters like Chernobyl, leaded petrol and DDT insecticides, and is now ignoring warnings about bee deaths, GM food and nanotechnology, according to an 800-page report by the European Environment Agency. Thousands of lives could have been saved and extensive damage to ecosystems avoided if the "precautionary principle" had been applied on the basis of early warnings, say the authors of the 2013 Late Lessons from Early warnings...
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4 Japanese companies agree to provide free use of EVs and energy supply devices to government of Kyoto Prefecture in disasters
2013-01-15 10:30:23| Green Car Congress
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Who Should Pay the Costs of Climate Disasters?
2013-01-09 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Who should pay the costs of climate disasters? In light of the current debate in the United States about federal assistance to Hurricane Sandy victims and the recent debate at the recent Doha Climate Conference about international assistance for climate change victims, that has become an increasingly pressing question for humankind. The frequency and cost of natural disasters is rapidly increasing. Since the 1980s the number of billion-dollar natural disasters in the United States has tripled...
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