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Quantifying Investment Risk: Ranking the Resilience of 50 Global Cities
2014-05-19 20:08:00| National Real Estate Investor
Traditional methods of property investment risk assessment are insufficient in a world facing unprecedented challenges such as rising sea levels, overpopulation, inequality and access to natural resources; which are changing the basic patterns of the last two centuries. This belief led the Grosvenor Group to publish a ranking of 50 global cities by environmental and social resilience and use this research as part of its investment risk analysis to go beyond the traditional methods such as standard deviation of returns, projected vacancy rates and forecast rental returns. read more
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Climate Change Will Force Us Abandon Coastal Cities. We Better Start Preparing Right Now
2014-05-18 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: On Monday, the New York Times reported on two new climate change studies that came to the same, terrifying conclusion: The heat-trapping gases could destabilize other parts of Antarctica as well as the Greenland ice sheet, potentially causing enough sea-level rise that many of the worlds coastal cities would eventually have to be abandoned. Abandoned. While actual abandonment would not happen for many years (were talking centuries), the studies warned that our actions now are irrevocable...
US Cities Under 12 Feet Of Water: Rising Sea Levels Turn US Into Venetian Waterland Eventually
2014-05-18 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Times: New predictions forecast an even more dire rising of sea levels during the centuries ahead as parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet enter an "unstoppable" process of retreat. Photo courtesy of Suma, CC BY 2.0. A growing sense of the inevitability of global warming has become a bit of a parlor game for world citizens from New York City to the south of France, where rising sea levels will someday bury coastal human settlements. Drawing on data collected by climate researchers, Pittsburgh-based...
Ozone Rise Will Choke U.S. Cities
2014-05-18 09:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Stand by for long, hot North American summers of smarting eyes, tickling throats, asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. And crops could also suffer, because ground-level ozone pollution is likely to increase in the US. Gabriele Pfister, an atmospheric scientist at the US National Center for Atmosphere Research in Colorado, and research colleagues report in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres that Americans face a rise of 70% in summertime ozone levels by 2050. Ozone is a form of oxygen...
Local cities concerned with frac sand hauling
2014-05-15 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KARE: As the St. Croix River moves by the small town of Taylors Falls, there are some here worried about what may soon be moving through. "It's going to be a mess," said Taylors Falls Mayor Mike Buchite. In late April Mayor Buchite said he got an email from the North Branch city manager telling him about a frac sand company, Superior Silica Sands, that might set up shop in her city, but it would haul sand through his. The sand is used for hydraulic fracturing that extracts oil and gas from the...
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