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El Nino prompts DOTs to make winter weather preparations.
2015-12-28 14:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
As winter is set to begin, AASHTO is releasing the results of a survey on winter weather preparations. According to survey, 70% of the 41 responding state departments of transportation reported they're closely tracking El Niño - because the weather phenomenon is predicted to impact their region this winter. Survey finds that 40% of DOTs have increased salt supplies and 90% of respondents report using Road Weather Information System sensor technology.
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It took El Nino to get Canadians talking about climate change
2015-12-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: 2016 will mark the 10-year anniversary of a very important film that put a lot of teenagers to sleep. That film was An Inconvenient Truth. Ten years ago, at the age of 16, I, like thousands of high-school students across the country, was forced to watch former U.S. vice-president Al Gores Academy Award-winning documentary a mashup of PowerPoint data and melting ice caps in a class of overwhelmingly bored peers. On screen, Gore was kind and intelligent, but he wasnt exactly rabble-rousing,...
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Southern Africa faces food shortages as El Nino drought worsens: FAO
2015-12-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Southern Africa faces food shortages as drought, exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern, delays planting and stunts crops across the region, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in an alert. "The presence of a strong El Nino episode in 2015/16 raises serious concerns regarding the impact on food insecurity," the FAO said in the alert, issued late on Tuesday. Regional harvests last season were also badly affected by drought conditions, raising the specter of back-to-back...
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Climate change, El Nino bring balmy December in parts of Canada, scientists say
2015-12-23 13:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: If climate change is weighing on your mind this holiday season, especially after the signing of the Paris agreement, you're not alone. There's an image that's been slowly circulating on the internet. It's of an older, bearded man, his smile tentative, his eyebrows furrowed. The caption reads, "When ur enjoying the warm weather in December, but deep down u know it's because of global warming." It's been shared thousands of times, incorrect spelling notwithstanding. And it taps into a lot of talk...
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Homeless in Los Angeles brace for El Nino rainstorms
2015-12-21 12:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As Los Angeles grapples with a huge homelessness problem, El Nino weather patterns are likely to bring torrential downpours in coming months and add to the misery of the thousands of people who sleep on the city's streets. "It is a crisis in LA, and I don't think people realize the magnitude of it," said John Kump, an outreach program manager at the charity People Assisting the Homeless (PATH). Los Angeles' homeless population is estimated at about 44,000, with many of them concentrated in...
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