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US heat wave just preview of future: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
AFP: The US East Coast is sweltering in a record-hot summer but it could endure twice as many sweaty days by mid-century without action on climate change, an environmental group said Wednesday. The US capital, Washington, is on track for 50 days in 2010 in which the mercury crosses 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius), a number that could rise as high as 100 by 2050, the National Wildlife Federation said in a study. The group, which supports action against climate change, said that ...
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‘Berserk’ weather causes worldwide chaos
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
Sky News: From floods in Pakistan to droughts in Russia, "extreme and very unusual" weather across the world is bringing death and misery to millions of people. To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. 2010 is already being branded as the year the weather went berserk. In Pakistan, floods have claimed over 1,600 lives and left over two million people homeless. Countries across ...
France digs deep for nuclear waste
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
Nature: "It'll be about 8 minutes before we reach the 490-metre lab level," shouts an official, barely audible above the roar of machinery, as we slam shut the heavy doors of the small lift and trundle slowly towards the depths of the Earth. Here, half a kilometre beneath rolling wheat fields outside the small town of Bure in northeast France, the country is preparing to dispose of its radioactive waste. In a EUR1-billion (US$1.3 billion) underground laboratory, the French National ...
Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
New Scientist: Raging wildfires in western Russia have reportedly doubled average daily death rates in Moscow. Diluvial rains over northern Pakistan are surging south "" the UN reports that 6 million have been affected by the resulting floods. It now seems that these two apparently disconnected events have a common cause. They are linked to the heatwave that killed more than 60 in Japan, and the end of the warm spell in western Europe. The unusual weather in the US and Canada last month also has a ...
Think this summer is hot? Get used to it
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
USA Today: This summer's stifling, deadly heat along the Eastern Seaboard and Deep South could be a preview of summers to come over the next few decades, according to a report about global warming to be published Wednesday by the National Wildlife Federation and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. In fact, according to NWF climate scientist Amanda Staudt, the summer of 2010 might actually be considered mild compared with the typical summers in the future. "We all think this summer is ...
China landslide rescue effort continues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2010
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