Archive for 'Extreme Weather'
Hurricane Dean Inflicts Heavy Damage On Jamaica & Dominican Republic
News on Jamaica
It’s just past 10 AM and Dean is still pummeling parts of Jamaica. Dean passed just south of Jamaica but Category Four winds were recorded in Kingston.
Here is the latest MSNBC video from Jamaica, Hurricane Dean wallops Jamaica, which was made this morning in the capital of Kingston.
Caribseek, Caribbean News, ran this story which was last updated […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Extreme Weather.
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A New Focus
I began my blog in the hope of convincing people of the urgent need to spend as much time and effort on adapting to global warming as we are spending on mitigating (or fighting) global warming. I may try to kid around a little, calling myself Count Doom and creating my 4 horsemen of Global Warming; but […]
Posted: August 20th, 2007 under Extreme Weather, Global Warming Insurance.
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Today’s News - August 16, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time to focus on another of my horsemen, Heat, which is causing havoc in the U.S. and Japan with record breaking temperatures.
First, the US: 37 Die In South, Midwest Heat Wave.
Unrelenting heat that has baked the Midwest and South for the past […]
Posted: August 17th, 2007 under Three Strikes Analogy, Health, Diseases, Extreme Weather, Record Temperatures, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Today's News, Uncategorized.
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Today’s News - August 15, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - The Small Island Nations of the Pacific are at extreme risk due to sea level rise. Most of the time I concentrate on the most dramatic effects of sea level rise - the more powerful storms and storm surges - so it is […]
Posted: August 16th, 2007 under Extreme Weather, Disaster Planning, Saltwater Intrusion, Flooding, Permafrost, Greenland, Small Island Nations, Today's News, Sea Level Rise.
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Today’s News - August 13, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Time recently blasted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the problems in preparing New Orleans for Katrina and the repair effort afterwards, and now the Corps is firing back: Response to Aug. 13 Time Cover Story: “The Threatening Storm”.
TIME magazine’s […]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under Flooding, Extreme Weather, Disaster Planning, Climate Change, Today's News, Sea Level Rise, Renewable Energy, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 10, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Story - Now that the flood waters are starting to recede from India and Bangladesh, the world can more clearly assess their impact and the news is very bad. These two articles clearly illustrate the challenges that lie ahead of us: first in dealing […]
Posted: August 11th, 2007 under Global Warming Insurance, Flooding, Extreme Weather, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Tax, Sea Level Rise, Today's News, CO2 Emissions, Global Warming.
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Today’s News - August 9, 2007
Featuring the Four Horsemen of Global Warming
Drought, Flood, Heat, & Pestilence
Top Stories - Today was a huge news day and it was tough picking a top story, so please excuse the skimpy commentary in this section. These two climate change related articles were chosen because they discuss two areas that concern me the most - […]
Posted: August 10th, 2007 under CO2 Emissions, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Methane (CH4), Permafrost, Sea Level Rise, Greenland, Today's News, Global Warming.
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