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Climate change will make Colorado's millennial rainstorm a lot more common
2013-10-24 21:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: The rainfall that caused massive flooding in Colorado last month was a once-in-a-millennium event, according to a recent study (pdf). And climate change is making those kinds of extreme weather events more common. The impressively named Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center, a division of the National Weather Service, has concluded with greater than 90% certainty that the rainfall was millennial in nature. Here`s the chart for one rain gauge in Boulder, Colorado, that was inundated over seven...
Auto dealer loses permit to store cars in park's lot
2013-10-24 05:57:53| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
Nassau has revoked a permit granted to a Westbury auto dealership for storing cars at Cantiague Park after a parks advocacy group complained the county had illegally transferred parkland.
Letter: Leave yard waste next to house, not vacant lot
2013-10-22 12:13:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
In my moseying around southeast Palm Bay picking up beer cans and other roadside trash, and conducting an inventory of the local cat population , one observation stands out and bears discussion.
UN climate chief says Australian Direct Action 'a lot more expensive' than pricing carbon
2013-10-22 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Australian Coalition government is set to pay a "high political price" for its Direct Action climate change plan, according to the United Nation's climate chief. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said the government's approach could be "a lot more expensive" than pricing carbon and called for rapid cuts in emissions to avoid the kind of "doom and gloom" represented by the New South Wales bushfires. "What the new government in Australia...
Second lot of Games tickets on sale
2013-10-21 01:34:56| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Fans who missed out on the first batch of Commonwealth Games tickets get a second chance to secure seats at the Glasgow 2014 event.
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