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Catastrophic flooding is getting worse and we're woefully unprepared

2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: The Midwest is no stranger to devastating floods. Last summer, the region was inundated with two month's worth of rainfall in just one week, submerging farms and killing crops. Torrential downpours following a drought in Illinois in 2013 led to flooding that cost $1 billion. And Midwest flooding in 2008 caused 24 deaths and $15 billion in losses. Across the country, the United States has suffered from more than $260 billion in flood-related damages between 1980 and 2013--it's the most common natural...

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Ice researchers capture catastrophic Greenland melt

2015-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Over a few summer days in 2012, nearly all of the Greenland ice sheet surface thawed right under the feet of a UCLA-led team of scientists. What was not absorbed into snow quickly gathered and flowed across the 20,000-square-mile sheet, coalescing into roaring turquoise rivers. And then most of it disappeared. Where all that water went may seem an easy guess. But that`s just the problem with Greenland ice science -- some of the guesses have been wrong, according to a study published online...

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Leave Fossil Fuels Untapped to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, Study Urges

2015-01-08 16:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Change Network: The sheer scale of the fossil fuel reserves that will need to be left unexploited for decades if world leaders sign up to a radical climate agreement is revealed in a study by a team of British scientists. It shows that almost all the huge coal reserves in China, Russia and the U.S. should remain unused, along with more than 260 billion barrels of oil reserves in the Middle Eastthe equivalent of Saudi Arabias total oil reserves. The Middle East would also need to leave more than 60 percent of...

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Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, We Need Radical Change to Prevent Catastrophic Warming

2014-11-17 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlterNet: House lawmakers passed legislation Friday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to bring carbon-intensive tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast. The Senate is expected to vote this week on a similar pro-Keystone bill backed by Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Landrieu is facing a tough battle to keep her seat in a runoff next month against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, who also happens to be the sponsor of the pro-Keystone bill in the House. Landrieu spoke last week...

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