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Is Living With Extreme Wildfires The New Normal?
2013-09-30 00:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: It has been a deadly year for the people who fight wildfires. In total, 32 people have lost their lives fighting fires in 2013; the highest number in nearly 20 years, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Just one incident accounts for most of those deaths, the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona. In June, the blaze blasted through a firefighting crew known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots; 19 of the 20 men died. As people move farther into wildland areas and climate change turns landscapes...
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IPCC Climate Change Report Expresses Extreme Confidence In Human Cause Of Global Warming
2013-09-28 00:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Scientists now believe it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, a long-term trend that is clear despite a recent plateau in the temperatures, an international climate panel said Friday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used its strongest language yet in a report on the causes of climate change, prompting calls for global action to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. "If this isn't an alarm bell, then I don't know what...
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Colorado Rivers Illustrate Realities of Extreme Weather Activated by Climate Change
2013-09-27 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The river raced. I was standing near the bridge on College Avenue over the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. Due to the torrential rainstorms, the river had peaked about six hours earlier in the middle of the night, but it was still flowing about 100 times bigger than it usually does in September. A huge tree raged along in the floodwaters, smacked up against the bridge with a cracking sound, and then disappeared under the bridge. Spectators oohed and aaheda couple dozen of us were watching,...
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Climate change likely to turn UK's weather more extreme
2013-09-27 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Warmer, wetter winters and more extreme rainfall are what the UK can expect from climate change, meteorological experts warned on Friday. Although the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not go into detail on individual countries, the regional and global trends identified in the assessment can be extrapolated to reflect some of the likely impacts on Britain. Dr Peter Stott, of the Met Office, said more extreme rainfall was likely to be the most noticeable impact....
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Compression Contacts withstand extreme shock and vibration.
2013-09-25 14:30:44| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Featuring sweeping beam design that enables vertical or horizontal mating, 70-9155 Series is rated for 3 A and -40 to +125°C. Single piece, ultra low profile, board-to-board compression contacts are available with nominal operating heights of 1.0 and 1.5 mm, and with operating height ranges of 0.75–1.25 mm and 1.25–1.75 mm, respectively. Designed for up to 1,000 cycles, series features beryllium copper contacts with nickel under plates, gold on nose, and tin on tails. This story is related to the following:Surface Mount Contacts | Connector Contacts |
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