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Our insecure Internet of Things is becoming terrifying
2015-09-08 14:37:15| Extremetech
A number of recent scares have made worsening security on the Internet of Things a seriously pressing concern.
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The Terrifying Gaps in Scott Walker's Idea for a Canadian Border Wall
2015-08-31 07:12:52| Chemicals - Topix.net
If Scott Walker is really serious about a Border Wall dividing us from Canada, he's going to have to think a lot harder than he has! Being serious students of Presidential politics and international policy, Orange Juice Blog readers surely already know that Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker stated, in response to a question on NBC's Meet the Press , that to serve the cause of fighting terrorism the U.S. should explore not only building a wall separating us from Mexico, but one separating us from Canada as well. The Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said on Sunday that building a wall on the US northern border with Canada was "a legitimate issue for us to look at".
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With Climate Change, A Terrifying New Normal for Western Firefighters
2015-08-10 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: To many people, climate change is a distant, abstract concept. But to the men and women who battle wildfires in Colorado and throughout the American West, evidence of a warming world is something they face on a daily basis. In recent years, these fire crews have fought blazes that are larger, more frequent, faster-moving, longer-lasting, and increasingly unpredictable the result of rising temperatures, diminishing snowpack, and more frequent droughts. This e360 video, Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters...
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Alaskas terrifying wildfire season and what it says about climate change
2015-07-27 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Hundreds of wildfires are continually whipping across this state this summer, leaving in their wake millions of acres of charred trees and blackened earth. At the Fairbanks compound of the states Division of Forestry recently, workers were busy washing a mountain of soot-covered fire hoses, which stood in piles roughly six feet high and 100?feet long. About 3,500 smokejumpers, hotshot crews, helicopter teams and other workers have traveled to Alaska this year from across the country and Canada....
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James Hansens new climate study is terrifying, but he still has hope
2015-07-23 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When James Hansen speaks, climate hawks listen. Hansen was legendary during his long career as NASAs chief climatologist for being ahead of the curve on seeing the threat of catastrophic climate change. Now he teaches at Columbia University, and he has more bad news to deliver. According to a study conducted by Hansen and 16 coauthors, being published this week in the European Geophysical Unions open-access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, the effects of even moderate warming on sea-level...