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Frackers are flooding the atmosphere with climate-warming methane
2014-05-13 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The free pass that frackers and natural-gas handlers have gotten on their climate-changing methane emissions is really starting to stink to high hell. We told you in February about the results of a meta-analysis of 20 years worth of scientific studies, which concluded that the EPA underestimates the natural-gas industry`s climate impacts by 25 to 75 percent, due to methane leakage from its gas drilling operations and pipelines. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse...
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Not Just Sea Level Rise: Northeast Faces Flooding From The Skies
2014-05-08 14:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The nation`s capital and financial center, not to mention other major metropolitan areas in the Northeast, are going to get soggy. And not just because of dramatic sea level rise and storm surge. The third National Climate Assessment, released Tuesday, stresses that the onslaught of water will come from the skies as well as the oceans. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, which slammed into the East Coast in October 2012, causing up to $80 billion in damage, most people in the Northeast quickly...
Deadly Heat Waves, Flooding Rains, Crop Failures
2014-05-07 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: When it rains, it pours. When it's dry, it's parched. When it's hot, it lasts. These are some of the impacts climate change is already bringing to the United States, with more extremes to come in the future, according to the National Climate Assessment report released yesterday. With 30 chapters, multiple appendices and a user-friendly website, the report comprehensively documents climate change impacts across the United States. It even includes a frequently asked questions section--a sort...
Pensacola auto dealers lose millions in flooding
2014-05-03 13:18:59| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
With more than 300 vehicles already ruined, heavy rains still pounding and menacing thunder and lightning crackling overhead, car dealer Allen Turner gathered a handful of his employees late Tuesday night and gazed out at the floodwaters rising toward his dealership.
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Warming boosts UK flooding risk
2014-05-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: UK Met Office data showed that the prolonged and heavy rain was an extreme outlier in the context of their records of 20th Century rainfall. But scientists can go back further to judge just how extreme this wet winter was. It turns out that it was the wettest January and wettest winter in the world's longest daily rainfall record, collected in Oxford from 1767 to the present day. At the time, many people suspected a link to climate change, but any such claim has been treated with caution. ...
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