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Americas wicked, deadly heat wave last week
2013-07-22 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Released on Friday by NOAA, the map shows the hellish days that preceded the nation`s current meteorological bugbear: an "oppressively hot area of high pressure," to use the National Weather Service`s language, that`s now making eyeballs sweat on the East Coast. How nasty is it there? Here are a few indicators: So many people were camped in front of their A/Cs on Friday that New York`s power grid reached an all-time usage high. Reports Reuters: "The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)...
Deadly diseases and climate change
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record Searchlight: There is so much wrong with climate change, it is hard to keep up. The whole world is changing and yet it is one of the best-kept secrets on the planet. And as it changes, and we (shhhhh) keep it to ourselves, pieces of fact and truth bubble up now and then. Well more than now and then. Kind of constantly. Just ask D.R. Tucker. But most the media world successfully ignores it. And all of us carry on with our lives as if it will always be normal. I guess we need to pretend. Hang onto our denial as...
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Deadly derailment won't stop oil on trains
2013-07-19 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grown exponentially as a result of the oil boom and will continue to expand, experts say. This year, more trains carrying crude will chug across North America than ever before - nearly 1,400 carloads a day. In 2009, there were just 31 carloads a day. U.S. and Canadian drillers are producing oil faster than new pipelines can be built. As a...
Drunken Weather Pattern Leads to Deadly Heat
2013-07-19 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The heat wave that has built across the eastern U.S. -- roasting cities from Memphis to Washington to Boston in a stifling blanket of heat and humidity -- has had one strange characteristic that meteorologists cannot yet explain. Rather than moving west to east, as typical weather patterns do in the Northern Hemisphere, weather systems across the country have moved in the opposite direction, like a drunken driver on a dark stretch of highway, drifting from east to west during the past two weeks....
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CRC Workgroup: Review of Portland Police Bureau Use of Deadly Force and Crowd Control Joint Meeting
2013-07-15 22:57:53| PortlandOnline
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