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'There's something terrifying about it': rise of the river Seine
2016-06-03 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Incredible, thats all I can say, muttered Catherine, a publishing editor, as she stared dumbfounded at the river water that had swallowed up the busy road running along the banks of the Seine near her Paris apartment. Roads and picturesque cobbled walkways in the French capital have disappeared, submerged by a vast expanse of brown river water carrying an unusual assortment of debris including logs, big wooden planks and a metal sign from a boat-club in its angry, swirling current. The rain-swollen...
Temperatures in India reach a terrifying 123 degrees
2016-05-24 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: India is reeling from a heatwave so high that shoes are melting to roads, cities are banning cooking during the day, and hundreds have died. Nowhere is as hot as of Phalodi, a city in the north where temperatures reached a staggering 123 degrees Fahrenheit last week, breaking the previous record set in 1956. India is no stranger to high temperatures and large disasters: 2015 was an especially devastating year for the country, with heat, drought, and floods killing hundreds of citizens. All of...
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The terrifying math of melting ice sheets
2016-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living On Earth: Recent studies of the physics of ice sheets suggests that we may be vastly underestimating how fast the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of global warming. Penn State Climate Scientist Michael Mann tells host Steve Curwood that combined with the melting from other glaciers around the world, seas could rise over six feet by 2100, putting many coastal cities underwater. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley studios at the University of Massachusetts Boston and PRI,...
Coke and Pepsi are facing a terrifying reality
2016-03-30 02:06:57| Beverages - Topix.net
The total volume of soda consumed in the US dropped 1.2% in 2015, compared to a drop of 0.9% in 2014, according to Beverage Digest's annual report. The slide in soda consumption is a continuation of a multi-year slump.
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Global warmings terrifying new chemistry
2016-03-23 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: Global warming is, in the end, not about the noisy political battles here on the planet's surface. It actually happens in constant, silent interactions in the atmosphere, where the molecular structure of certain gases traps heat that would otherwise radiate back out to space. If you get the chemistry wrong, it doesn't matter how many landmark climate agreements you sign or how many speeches you give. And it appears the United States may have gotten the chemistry wrong. Really wrong. Ad Policy There's...
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