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Geoengineering could trigger disaster in parts of Africa
2013-04-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Less than three weeks after two U.S. researchers called for global agreement on the governance of geoengineering research, British meteorologists have provided a case study in potential geoengineering disaster. Jim Haywood from the Met Office Hadley Center and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that fine particles concentrated in the stratosphere could precipitate calamitous drought in the Sahel region of Africa. Attempts to tackle climate change by altering the atmosphere may have...
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Normalizing Extreme Disaster
2013-04-04 09:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Even if you set aside the man-made environmental disaster that is China (at a cost now estimated conservatively at $230 billion annually), ever more expensive disasters seem to be on the rise globally. Moreover, thanks to climate change -- that is, the greenhouse gases we've been pumping into the atmosphere at record levels -- the distinction between man-made catastrophes and natural ones is rapidly blurring. In the United States, we've recently suffered a one-two punch when it comes to extreme weather:...
Keystone XL: The pipeline to disaster
2013-04-04 08:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In March, the State Department gave the president cover to open a big spigot that will hitch our country to one of the dirtiest fuels on Earth for 40 years or more. The draft environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline acknowledges tar sands are nasty stuff for the environment, but concludes that the project is OK because this oil will get to market anyway -- with or without a pipeline. A public comment period is underway through April 22, after which the department will prepare a final statement...
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Demolition Contractors Ask for a Larger Role in Disaster Planning
2013-04-03 20:38:35| ENR.com: Headline News
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake offers lessons on how recovery efforts can be streamlined
Swiss Re: U.S. Dominated Global Disaster Losses in 2012
2013-04-01 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The insurance industry had its third-most expensive year on record in 2012, with global economic losses from natural catastrophes and manmade disasters totaling $186 billion, according to a report released March 27 by the reinsurance giant Swiss Re. The total insured losses for the year was $77 billion, which was well below the losses seen in 2011, when earthquakes and flooding in Asia caused insured losses of $126 billion, which were the highest on record. According to Swiss Re, extreme weather...
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