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O’Malley doubles down ISIS-climate change connection
Posted by Des Moines Register: Grant Rodgers on July 25th, 2015
Des Moines Register: Martin O'Malley doubled down Saturday on a claim earning him some ridicule from Republicans: The threat of Islamic State terrorism and climate change are most likely linked.
The Democratic presidential hopeful told Iowans during a stop at Peace Tree Brewing Co. that the rise of the violent radical group was spurred by tensions from a major drought that hit Syria in 2007. The U.S. needs to focus its intelligence efforts on better predicting how natural disasters will affect countries and use its...
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Study: Sandy caused record sea levels, $23 billion in damage in New York
Posted by Hill: Devin Henry on July 25th, 2015
Hill: Superstorm Sandy caused $23 billion in damage in New York state alone and delivered the highest water levels there on record, according to a new federal report.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said this week that the 2012 storm produced sea levels much higher than other historic storms to hit the New York region.
Peak storm tides from Sandy were more than 9.5 feet above sea level, according to the agencies' report.
On average, those tides were...
Get ready for climate change refugees
Posted by Dallas Morning News: Michael B. Gerrard on July 25th, 2015
Dallas Morning News: Toward the end of this century, if current trends are not reversed, large parts of Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Vietnam, among other countries, will be under water. Some small island nations, such as Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, will be close to disappearing entirely. Swaths of Africa from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia will be turning into desert. Glaciers in the Himalayas and the Andes, on which entire regions depend for drinking water, will be melting away. Many...
GAO Report Sees Climate Risks to Army Corps Projects
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2015
Climate Central: Thousands of dams, levees, hurricane barriers and flood walls built across the country by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may be at risk from extreme weather and sea level rise driven by climate change, but the Army Corps has only just begun to assess how vulnerable they are and suffers from a lack of funding, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report. The Army Corps may not be the most prominent of federal government agencies, but the dams, levees and other infrastructure it...