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Floods just pummeled Washington, D.C. and the footage is wild
This Mashable article discusses how floods just pummeled Washington, D.C. and the footage is wild.
Even the White House is leaking.
Potent storms deluged the Washington, D.C. area Monday morning, marooning drivers atop their vehicles, transforming boulevards into brown rivers,
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Report: Climate Change Is Producing a Harrowing New Phenomenon – ultra heat.
This article discusses how climate change is producing a harrowing new phenomenon.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) has just released a brief—but very important—report on the impact of heat stress on workers. What the ILO finds is that the areas of the world most threatened by heat deaths of workers […]
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Bomb Trains: How Industry Greed and Regulatory Failure Put the Public at Risk
A DeSmogBlog story discusses a book about the O&G industry’s bomb trains. How Industry Greed and Regulatory Failure Put the Public at Risk.
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Children’s lives could be cut short by air pollution
This article discusses how children’s lives could be cut short by air pollution. The study looked at the combined impact of two pollutants – particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. [No link is provided to the study.]
Air pollution could shorten a child’s life by up to seven months, a study on […]
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Yale Climate Connections, Week of July 12, 2019
This week’s stories include:
How climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous
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How to prepare for a hurricane
Did climate change play a role in Western Europe’s June heat wave?
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Report: Electric cars ‘will not solve transport problem’
This BBC article discusses a report that warns that electric cars won’t solve our transportation problems. (No report link was provided.)
Car use will still need to be curbed even when all vehicles are powered by clean electricity, a report has said.
It warns that electrifying cars will not address […]
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These two articles discusses the extremely hot weather in June 2019.
This NY Times article discusses how Heat Waves Nudged the Planet to Its Hottest June, European Forecasters Say. The heat wave that smothered much of Europe at the end of June helped raise average global temperatures to a record for the month, a European weather forecasting agency has said.
This […]
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Study: sea level rise could cost Florida $75.8 billion by 2040
This article discusses a climate study that estimates that sea level rise could cost Florida $75.8 billion by 2040. The study used a sea level rise model, storm surge estimates and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shoreline data.
A climate study has estimated that Seattle’s costs associated with sea level rise […]
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Study: Two articles on the benefit of trees in fighting climate change
This Bloomberg article discusses an easy climate change fix – plant trees. A new analysis finds nations could be growing forests where they aren’t, removing millions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere. A simple climate fix may be hiding in plain sight: some 3.5 million square miles of […]
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UN official: US can’t ignore that climate change will force 120 million people into poverty
This The Hill opinion piece discusses a UN official’s statement that US can’t ignore that climate change will force 120 million people into poverty.
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