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Extreme Heat: How Urban Design Needs to Adapt to Rising Temperatures

2016-04-25 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CurBed: Rising temperatures from climate change pose numerous challenges to cities, including coastal flooding, rising sea levels, and droughts. But a new report by the Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) of the American Institute of Architects New York addresses an often overlooked, but seemingly obvious issue head-on: the danger of higher and higher temperatures. Extreme Heat suggests that cities, and the way we build and design them, needs to adapt and evolve to deal with the coming...

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New Research Shows Greenhouse Gases Do Not Absorb Enough Heat To Cause Global Warming: Geophysicst Dr. Peter L. Ward, Urges Awareness Before Signing Paris Climate Accord

2016-04-25 06:17:25| pollutiononline Home Page

Dr. Peter L Ward, a long time government geophysicist, has spent ten years carefully reexamining the physics of global warming, and discovered that greenhouse gases simply do not absorb enough heat to cause warming

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More than 100 feared dead in India heat wave

2016-04-21 10:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early-summer heat wave which forced schools to close and halted outdoor work like construction, government officials said on Thursday. Neighboring Pakistan, which suffered its hottest spell in decades last year, plans to open 500 response centers to provide shelter and cold water to people if a heat-wave warning is issued, a government official said. No heat deaths have yet been reported. India's hottest months are May and June, but some states...

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New data suggests Europas ice cover produces significant amounts of heat

2016-04-19 18:30:04| Extremetech

New research suggests there's more energy on Europa than previously thought, which could have significant impact on whether or not the planet is capable of supporting life.

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