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Impact of Climate Change:
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Over 800 colleges and universities, K-12 schools, civic organizations and religious groups are participating in Focus the Nation, potentially the largest simultaneous teach-in in history. (READ MORE) |
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across the world, in every kind of environment and region known
to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating
storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate
over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it
real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly
new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. |
[Barak Obama, D. senator,
Illinois] |
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| News: "Extreme
weather brings flood chaos round the world" |
| New Scientist Environment (30 July 2007) |
Round-up of extreme weather
news from China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sudan, South Africa,
and the UK. People in countries across the world, from China
to India and Sudan to Indonesia, are coping with severe wet weather,
highlighting the position of flooding as the most deadly of all
natural disasters.
While single events cannot be linked to climate change, the flooding
come as research suggests that global warming will increase rainfall
in some parts of the world, including the Indian monsoon, and
increase the number of hurricanes – both due increased
evaporation in a warmer world.
One person in 10 worldwide, including one in eight city-dwellers,
lives less than 10 metres above sea-level and near the coast.
This is an "at-risk zone" for flooding and stronger
storms exacerbated by climate change, a recent study found. |
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| Tropical Storm Risk: 2007 Forecast |
| http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/ |
The British private forecasting firm, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR), offers a leading resource for forecasting the risk from tropical storms worldwide. The venture provides information and innovative forecast products to benefit risk awareness and decision making in (re)insurance, other business sectors,
government and society. |
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| The Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University (CSU): 2007 Forecast |
| http://typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu/forecasts/2007/june2007/ |
| The Tropical Meteorology Project is headed by Colorado State University's Dr. William Gray. Professor Gray has worked in the observational and theoretical aspects of tropical meteorological research for more than 40 years. Most of this effort has gone to the investigation of meso-scale tropical weather phenomena. He has specialized in the global aspects of tropical cyclones for his entire professional career. |
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Hurricane Katrina Progression
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| http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003200/a003224/a003224_320x240.mpg |
Hurricane Katrina progression is observed by the Aqua and Terra satellites. Katrina hit land on August 29, 2005, near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Katrina's center was located near the mouth of the Pearl River about 40-45 miles west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi and about 30-35 miles east-northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina is the eleventh named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season.
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