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Tracking Down Hurricanes’ Fingerprints in Trees and Stone

August 18, 2007 – 7:42 am

TreeHugger
Stalagmites and trees probably aren’t the first places you’d think to look for records of past hurricanes. But that’s exactly what Amy Frappier, a geochemist at Boston College, and her colleagues have been doing for the past few years — investigating the stalagmite formations’ growth layers for chemical fingerprints left behind by storms — and [...]

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Urban Planning Needs Rethink as Climate Change Looms

August 18, 2007 – 5:17 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
Urban Planning Needs Rethink as Climate Change Looms
By Sophie Mongalvy, Agence France-Presse, August 17, 2007
“Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, floods and hurricanes: global warming means urban planners need to rethink how and where to build cities, water experts warned at a conference [World Water Week] in Stockholm this week. Almost 80 percent [...]

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A Closer Look At Florida’s Climate Future-Is Global Warming Bringing On A Permanent EL Nino Effect?

August 1, 2007 – 4:58 am

Michelle Dyer - Florida Weather Info Lady
Last week I began an investigation into whether or not there has been a shift in the nation’s tornado activity from the Great Plains to the Southeast US. We looked at how global warming would, and already is, impacting the “Jet Stream”. The examination looked at how the [...]

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A Perilous Future for New Orleans

July 22, 2007 – 3:23 am

From: Climate Crisis Coalition
A Perilous Future for New Orleans
By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., The National Geographic, August 2007 issues
“Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in United States history, was also a warning shot. Right after the tragedy, many people expressed a defiant resolve to rebuild the city. But among engineers and experts, that resolve is [...]

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