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Philippines reels catastrophic damage as Typhoon Haiyan heads to Vietnam

2013-11-10 12:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNN: After laying waste to huge swaths of the Philippines, flattening villages and washing bodies into the water, Typhoon Haiyan is set to bring more devastation to Vietnam. While the massive storm barreled across the South China Sea on Sunday, many Filipinos grappled with devastation like they've never seen before. Entire houses leveled to pieces. More than 100 bodies scattered on the streets of one city. Thousands more residents stranded, grieving and hungry. The Philippine Red Cross estimated...

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The 'Catastrophic' Tesla S Fire: A Perspective

2013-10-07 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

A Tesla S caught fire last week. I have a lot of experience with cars, with lithium-ion batteries -- and with both cars and batteries catching fire. For a time, I was the lead battery analyst in the U.S., and my house nearly burned down when a lithium-ion battery pack decided to fail while charging. Thank goodness I'd also been trained to fight fires.

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Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a Catastrophic Climate Breakdown

2013-10-01 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Already, a thousand blogs and columns insist the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report is a rabid concoction of scare stories whose purpose is to destroy the global economy. But it is, in reality, highly conservative. Reaching agreement among hundreds of authors and reviewers ensures that only the statements which are hardest to dispute are allowed to pass. Even when the scientists have agreed, the report must be tempered in another forge, as politicians question anything they...

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