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Warning: 100-year climate disasters every 100 days
2013-09-25 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MarketWatch: Warning: 100-year megafires, 100-year megafloods, 100-year droughts and all the other 100-year-cycle climate-change and global-warming disasters that are supposed to happen somewhere around the world once a century? Science is now telling us theyre happening every 100 days or less. And thats not only costly for the world, the news is bad for climate-science deniers. Breaking news tells the real story ... Colorado flooding out of control... Arizona megafires ... Oklahoma tornadoes ... Jersey...
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Climate Change Reporting Focuses on Disasters and Uncertainty, Study Finds
2013-09-18 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Nearly 80 percent of news articles about climate change either warn of current or future disaster scenarios related to global warming, or contain discussions about the uncertainty of climate science, an Oxford study of 350 news articles from 2007 to 2012 has found. Fewer than two percent of the articles from the media in six countries discussed opportunities to be gained from switching to a lower-carbon economy. Journalists were attracted to "gloom and doom" stories about climate-related disasters,...
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