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Calgary floods spotlight cities' costly failure to plan for climate change
2013-06-28 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: But a community's ability to react during a disaster is one thing. Minimizing the impact of a flood is another. Now, the province faces a potentially decade-long cleanup effort that could cost $5 billion by BMO Nesbitt Burns estimates. Disaster risk management experts say the Alberta situation should serve as a wake-up call to municipalities across the country of the need to spend money and time mitigating the risks before disaster strikes, especially as climate change is predicted to bring bigger...
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India floods: a man-made disaster
2013-06-28 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The terrible floods in India's tiny north Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, which killed more than 1,000 people, left 70,000 stranded for days and destroyed livelihoods, have been officially termed a natural calamity caused by cloudbursts and unprecedented heavy monsoon rainfall. However, the true causes of the epic tragedy lie in the grievous damage recently wrought on the region's ecology by the runaway growth of tourism, unchecked proliferation of roads, hotels, shops and multistory housing in...
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Canada: Jet stream eyed as one culprit in Alberta floods
2013-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: It`s a long way from the Arctic Ocean to southern Alberta, but scientists are increasingly intrigued by theories that link disappearing sea ice to off-the-hook weather such as last week`s flooding. Many are coming to believe there`s a common thread between not enough ice on the ocean and too much water in the rivers -- a high-altitude, high-speed torrent of air called the jet stream. "There`s been a lot interest in the jet stream in the last two or three years," said Dave Phillips, an Environment...
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Calgary floods trigger an oil spill and a mass evacuation
2013-06-25 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Epic floods forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes last week in Calgary, Alberta, the tar-sands mining capital of Canada. More than seven inches of rain fell on the city over the course of 60 hours. Now the floodwaters are subsiding throughout the province, leaving in their wake an oil spill, power outages, and questions about how climate change might affect flooding. Alberta Premier Alison Redford said the crisis was like nothing that weve ever seen before, the Calgary Herald...
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Canada's oil capital Calgary starts slow clean-up from floods
2013-06-25 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canada's oil capital, Calgary, started the slow process of cleaning up its downtown on Tuesday in the aftermath of record-breaking floods, with many business owners returning for the first time to properties they were forced to leave last week. Parts of the city's center were still without power, and most shops, hotels and businesses were closed for a fifth consecutive day. "It's kind of spooky, it's so quiet," said Calgary resident Don Usselman, a remediation technologist, as he carried hoses...
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