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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding: official
2013-05-21 07:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company official told a U.S. Coast Guard panel on Monday. The Kulluk, having completed preliminary drilling on an exploration well in the Beaufort Sea, broke away from its tow lines, and support vessels attempting to regain control of the drillship developed their own engine and mechanical problems, Norman Custard,...
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Oklahoma Tornado Disaster
2013-05-21 05:05:39| PortlandOnline
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Oklahoma Tornado Disaster
2013-05-21 05:03:32| PortlandOnline
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Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster
2013-05-19 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350 reports on environmental management and related matters, has warned that "urgent action at all levels [is] required now", cautioning the region against complacency in dealing with climate change. Noting that earlier models forecast that an atmosphere...
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Climate change meltdown unlikely but human disaster looms, claims new research
2013-05-19 20:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Some of the most extreme predictions of global warming are unlikely to materialise, new scientific research has suggested, but the world is still likely to be in for a temperature rise of double that regarded as safe. The researchers said that warming was most likely to reach about 4C above pre-industrial levels if the past decade's readings were taken into account. That would still lead to catastrophe across large swaths of the Earth, causing droughts, storms, floods and heatwaves and with...
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