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Seattle Times: An earthquake worse than the Big One? Shattered New Zealand city shows danger of Seattles fault
2016-12-02 16:13:56| PortlandOnline
News story posted to seattletimes.com December 2, 2016.
Turbo-charged climate ushered in 'parade of shattered records' in 2015
2016-08-04 07:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Earth's fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet. Soon after 2015 ended, it was proclaimed the hottest on record. The new report shows the broad extent of other records and near-records on the planet's climatic health. Those include record heat energy absorbed by the oceans and lowest groundwater storage levels globally, according to Tuesday's report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Shattered records show climate change is an emergency today, scientists warn
2016-07-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: May was the 13th month in a row to break temperature records according to figures published this week that are the latest in 2016s string of incredible climate records which scientists have described as a bombshell and an emergency. The series of smashed global records, particularly the extraordinary heat in February and March, has provoked a stunned reaction from climate scientists, who are warning that climate change has reached unprecedented levels and is no longer only a threat for the future....
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21 hurricanes and typhoons that shattered records in 2015
2015-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Since this story was posted, yet another storm -- Hurricane Patricia -- in the eastern Pacific intensified to Category 4 status, making it 22 Category 4 and 5 storms that have formed so far this year. The combination of El Nio, other natural climate cycles and global warming have supercharged this year's tropical cyclone season in the northern hemisphere to the point where all-time records have been blown away. Specifically, there have now been 21 typhoons and hurricanes in the hemisphere...
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Soaring Temps in Pacific Northwest Shattered Records
2015-07-01 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scorching temperatures above 110°F are more often associated with the stark landscapes of places like Death Valley than the cooler reaches of the Pacific Northwest. But a suped-up heat wave has left parts of Washington feeling much more like the desert Southwest and has shattered longstanding high temperature records in many spots. Also contributing was where the air moving over the region came from: A lot of this hot weather had originated in the desert Southwest, Brown said. Its also possible...
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