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Climate of fear --
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 3 hours ago
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This October 25 file photo shows the Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility on the island of Hawaii...The station sits on the north flank of Mauna Loa volcano at an elevation of 3396 metres or 11,141 feet above sea level and has been studying...
Tags: climate change, Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, carbon dioxide, Julian Kenny, Prof Kenny, sea level, global warming, New York City, Climatologists, Environmental skepticism, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Richard Lindzen, Stephen Schneider, Carbon finance, Environment
Global warming to have heavy impact on Arab states
Beirut :: Lebanon | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned Thursday ahead of next month's Copenhagen environment summit. Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, spread...
Tags: United Arab Emirates, Copenhagen, level rise, sea level, Lebanon, Beirut, North Africa, Fertile Crescent, Israel, Arab World, Western Asia, Arab League member states, Levant, Environment
Dutch build more dunes against rising seas!
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:05 IST Monster (Netherlands): On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.
Tags: Netherlands, sea level, rise sea, Tineke Huizinga, Amsterdam, North Sea, Sand, Current sea level rise, Sedimentology, Coastal geography, Dune, Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
Bangkok :: Thailand | 1 day ago
Credibility Thailand�s capital, dubbed the �City of Angels� and the �Venice of the East�, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine. The 240-year-old Thai capital, located on the...
Tags: Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, climate change, Danai Thaitakoo, rises sea, Thailand, Chao Phraya River, sea level, sea water, Bangkok, Flood, Current sea level rise, Gulf of Thailand, Disaster Accident, Environment
CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY: Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 2 days ago
Credibility Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierram�rica, which was...
Tags: climate change, Uruguay, Mario Bidegain, Tierram�rica, sea level, rica reports, IPCC, global warming, Latin America, Argentina, Montevideo, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, World Meteorological Organization, IPCC Third Assessment Report, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Criticism of IPCC AR4, Carbon finance, Environment
Food-climate theorist Brown to lecture at Colorado State
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 2 days ago
Credibility A pioneering environmentalist who has written or co-authored more than 50 books will speak at CSU tonight on whether food shortages could be caused by global warming. Lester Brown, who the Washington Post once called �one of the world�s most influential...
Tags: Lester Brown, sea level, food shortages, Bangladesh, Dhāka
U.S.: Public More Complacent About Climate Change
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Less than two months before a key international conference on curbing climate change, a major U.S. poll has found a sharp drop in public concern about global warming. According to the survey by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press, 65 percent...
Tags: U.S, global warming, solid evidence, Earth, taking place, human activity, level rise, sea level, Washington
Climate: British Lady Whines Aussies Are Revolting
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. Every geologist knows that that is a subsiding area. … That is terrible! As a matter of fact, it is a falsification of the data set.”...
Tags: sea level, IPCC, climate change, British, Australia, Sydney, Nils-Axel Mￃﾶrner, Pseudoscientists, Effects of global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Current sea level rise, Global warming, Carbon finance, Environment
'Steering a risky course'
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Steering a risky course’ November 19, 2009 Section: Opinion THE Shellharbour City Council general manager’s statements in the Lake Times last week should have readers reaching for their anchors. Mr Weir says that ‘rising sea level estimations’ were taken...
Tags: sea level, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Shellharbour New South Wales
Bangkok Faces Grim Future as Waters Rise
Bangkok :: Thailand | 4 days ago
Credibility Built along the banks of the Chao Praya river as it nears the ocean, Bangkok has long been vulnerable to flooding. Poor urban planning and careless expansion have made the problem worse. And now, climate change eventually could help swamp the city. The...
Tags: Bangkok Metropolitan Authority, Bangkok Faces Grim Future, rise sea, Samith Dharmasaroja, sea level, Bhijit Rattakul, Danai Thaitakoo, Thailand, Bangkok, Gulf of Thailand, Levee, Current sea level rise, Hydrology, Water, Flood, Disaster Accident, Environment, Weather
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