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Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Portents of continental-scale fires as the Earth warms

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Andrew Glikson Earth and climate scientist Australian National University 15.11.2019 The effects of encroaching deserts and of fire...
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Global fires, droughts and Orwellian Newspeak while Nero fiddles

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By Andrew Glikson There was a time when the contamination of drinking water constituted a punishable crime. Nowadays those who willfully i...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

How many deaths could result from failure to act on climate change?

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A recent OECD analysis concludes that outdoor air pollution is killing more than 3.5 million people a year globally. The OECD estimates tha...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Escalating extreme weather events to hammer humanity

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By Paul Beckwith Extreme weather events are rocketing upwards in their frequency of occurrence, intensity, and duration and are impacting...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

The Threat of Wildfires in the North

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NASA/NOAA image based on Suomi NPP satellite  data from April 2012 to April 2013, with grid added A new map has been issued by NOAA/NASA...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

How to avoid mass-scale death, destruction and extinction

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The image below shows the FAO Food Price Index (Cereals), updated to October 2012. [ image from earlier post ] The above  FAO Food Price In...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Threat to global food supply makes comprehensive action imperative

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Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contributing to ext...
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