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Global climate change can lead to heat wave mortality in future
Posted by News-Medical.Net: None Given on May 4th, 2011
News-Medical.Net: From 1987 to 2005, Chicago experienced 14 heat waves lasting an average of 9.2 days, which resulted in an estimated 53 excess deaths per year. In the future, the researchers calculated that excess mortality attributable to heat waves to range from 166 to 2,217 per year. According to the researchers, the projections of excess deaths could not be explained by projected increases in city population alone. The exact change due to global warming in annual mortality projections, however, is sensitive to...
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Survivor of Dust Bowl Now Battles a Fiercer Drought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 4th, 2011
New York Times: While tornadoes and floods have ravaged the South and the Midwest, the remote western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle is quietly enduring a weather calamity of its own: its longest drought on record, even worse than the Dust Bowl, when incessant winds scooped up the soil into billowing black clouds and rolled it through this town like bowling balls.
With a drought continuing to punish much of the Great Plains, this one stands out. Boise (rhymes with voice) City has gone 222 consecutive days through...
Report sees sharper sea rise from Arctic melt
Posted by Associated Press: Karl Ritter and Charles J. Hanley on May 4th, 2011
Associated Press: The ice of Greenland and the rest of the Arctic is melting faster than expected and could help raise global sea levels by as much as 5 feet this century, dramatically higher than earlier projections, an authoritative international assessment says.
The findings "emphasize the need for greater urgency" in combating global warming, says the report of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), the scientific arm of the eight-nation Arctic Council.
The warning of much higher seas comes...
IDB evaluation panel finalising report on Amaila hydropower project
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 4th, 2011
Stabroek News: The expert panel commissioned to evaluate the Amaila Falls Hydropower project is now finalising its preliminary report but no date has been set for the release of the final report, Head of the panel Erik Helland-Hansen says.
Helland-Hansen, responding to an email sent to him by this newspaper, said that the panel is under contract with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Amaila Falls Hydro Inc to act as professional impartial advisors, .