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This city in the Persian Gulf could become hotter than humans can handle
2015-10-29 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: The highest temperature ever recorded was 134.06 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California. By 2100, climate change could make that extreme a typical hot summer day in the Persian Gulf. And the worst heat could be in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, according to a study published Oct. 26 in Nature Climate Change. With 1.6 million people living in the metropolitan area, Dhahran hosts the headquarters of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, a.k.a. Aramco, which owns the largest oil reserves in the world. ...
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
2015-09-11 15:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: One of the most under-appreciated aspects of the climate change problem is the so-called "fat tail" of risk. In short, the likelihood of very large impacts is greater than we would expect under typical statistical assumptions. We are used to thinking about likelihoods and probabilities in terms of the familiar "normal" distribution--otherwise known as the "bell curve." It looks like this: Roughly 68 percent of the area falls within the region bounded by 1 standard deviation below (-1 sigma)...
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As California goes, so goes country: Welcome to our hotter future
2015-08-22 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TomDispatch: Long ago, I lived in a cheap flat in San Francisco and worked as the lone straight man in a gay construction company. Strangely enough, the drought now strangling California brings back memories of those days. It was the 1970s. Our company specialized in restoring the Victorian gingerbread to the facades of the citys townhouses, and I got pretty good at installing cornices, gable brackets, and window hoods, working high above the street. What I remember most, though, is the way my co-workers...
Paint company CEO: The US housing market would be even hotter...
2015-07-28 01:59:09| Chemicals - Topix.net
Paint company CEO: The US housing market would be even hotter if it weren't for all this rain But managment at Sherwin Williams, one of the US's leading paint producers, is convinced things would be even hotter if it weren't for all the rain. Earlier this month, the company announced disappointing revenues, which grew just 2.9% instead of an expected 7.1%.
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Hotter, wetter, stormier: Study says 2014 climate melted records
2015-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Global sea levels swelled to a high, tropical cyclones continued to multiply and the worlds thermometer set a record in 2014, according to a new report tracking the earths climate. The report, an annual physical for the worlds climate, found evidence of warming around the globe, from shrinking glaciers and Arctic sea ice to record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The compendium of data from 413 researchers in 58 countries was released Thursday by the American Meteorological Society....
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