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Insuring the apocalypse

2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Yorker: Last week, the White House released the National Climate Assessment, and the news is grim. Coral reefs are dying, shellfish will increasingly make us sick, and cherries are being decimated by weather extremes. Along the Eastern Seaboard, waters will rise up to four feet-perhaps six feet-by the end of the century, making Sandy-like storm surges a frequent event. California will continue to burn. Arizona will continue to burn. For most businesspeople, climate change seems bad for the bottom line. ...

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US military begins research into moral, ethical robots, to stave off Skynet-like apocalypse

2014-05-09 14:37:14| Extremetech

The US Department of Defense, working with top computer scientists, philosophers, and roboticists from a number of US universities, has finally begun a project that will tackle the tricky topic of moral and ethical robots. This multidisciplinary project will first try to pin down exactly what human morality is, and then try to devise computer algorithms that will imbue autonomous robots with moral competence -- the ability to choose right from wrong. As we move steadily towards a military force that is populated by autonomous robots it is becoming increasingly important that we give these machines, these AIs, the ability to make the right decision. Yes, the US DoD is trying to get out in front of Skynet before it takes over the world. How very sensible.

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New York's $215 Million Emergency Gas Tanks Are Apocalypse Infrastructure

2014-05-03 09:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Motherboard: The seas are going to keep rising, and the super-storms are going to keep coming, so scattering a bunch of giant gasoline storage tanks across the nation for emergency use is probably a good idea. Still, nothing signals the nation's impending Mad Maxification quite like news that the US government is spending $215 million to build 500,000-gallon tanks--the first of many--explicitly for use in future Hurricane Sandy-like crises. "Building on lessons learned from recent extreme weather events like...

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Floods and weather: How to survive a very English apocalypse

2014-02-16 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: The wind sounds like a jet engine as it tears across the floodplain. Yet another Atlantic storm is ravaging the West Country, but in the hamlet of Burrowbridge in Somerset there are dozens of men and women hauling sandbags in atrocious conditions to save the homes of people they don't even know. "We are shocked and amazed and astounded at how well everyone has pulled together, the kindness of strangers and the generosity they have displayed,' says Rebecca Horsington, a 38-year-old farmer's wife...

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