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The Pentagon comes up short on climate
By Eric Bonds from Caribbean Life The Pentagon recently released a new report sounding the alarm on the national security threats posed by climate change. Like previous reports on the subject, this one makes clear that Department of Defence (DoD)…
Winter blizzard skirts New York City, but sill walloping Northeast
By Eyder Peralta From npr First the good news: Forecasts of a historic winter storm for the country’s most populous city have failed to materialize. Forecasters had called for up to 30 inches of snow in New York City, but…
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Cayman Islands Premier gives warning of economy overheating Cayman Islands Premier Hon. Alden McLaughlin has warned the economy could overheat if there is too much development all at once. He warned: “We have to be careful in another year or…
Nasa climate scientists: We said 2014 was the warmest year on record… but we’re only 38% sure we were right
By David Rose For The Mail On Sunday Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies claimed its analysis of world temperatures showed ‘2014 was the warmest year on record’ But it emerged that GISS’s analysis is subject to a margin of…
Drought may have led to decline of ancient Mayan civilization
By Andrew Soergel US News New geologic evidence suggests periods of extreme drought coincide with the fall of the Mayan civilization. Mineral deposits found in a Caribbean underwater cave may hold clues to the mysterious downfall of the ancient Mayan…
It’s official: 2014 was California’s warmest year on record by a huge margin
By Patrick Kulp And Andrew Freedman Federal data released Thursday confirmed what climate scientists had already widely suspected: California had by far its warmest year ever recorded in 2014. In the midst of the state’s worst drought in more than…
Shetland given amber warning for 100mph gusts
From BBC Amber warning of winds up to 100mph Shetland has been issued with a Met Office amber warning for wind amid concerns that it might experience gusts of up to 100mph. It comes after hurricane-force gusts left tens of…
Warming leads to more run-ins with polar bears
By Clément Sabourin, AFP From Business Insider Kuujjuarapik (Canada) (AFP) – Word spread quickly: a polar bear, then two, were spotted near this remote Inuit village on the shores of Hudson Bay, about 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles) north of Montreal….
The Lima Climate Summit: a failure in all but name
By Curtis Doebbler From Counterpunch The 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was held in Lima, Peru during the first two weeks of December 2014 was never intended to…
The charts that show we’re living through Earth’s warmest year on record
By Andrew Freedman From Mashable This year is almost certain to become the warmest year the planet has had since instrument records began, and very likely for at least 4,000 years before that. Even though November was tied with 2008…
