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Effects of Global Warming on Humans – From 2015 IPCC SYR Data

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Not only posing significant risks for Earth’s natural systems, the effects of global warming on humans and human systems have only recently begun receiving the expanded attention they critically require. From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to […]

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Climate Change-Induced Collapse of Civilization by 2040 Reports UK Foreign Office

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Releasing this exclusive freely in the public interest, best-selling author Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is offering a unique view of the critically significant impact that climate change is having on our lives, our livelihoods, and even our likelihood of survival on this planet. Dr Nafeez Ahmed is an international security scholar and investigative journalist, currently serving as a

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What Causes Global Warming?

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Droughts, lengthy hot spells, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and intensely every year. Around the world, research teams are analyzing these trends, noting the changes in temperature, rainfall, ice mass, sea level, and many other variables recorded by weather measuring devices. The trends are undeniable: the Earth is

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Drone Captures Fukushima Desolation Amid Cherry Blossoms

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Cherry blossoms in the foreground of Mount Fuji (image: ladyadventurer.co.uk) So far, at least, the famed blossoming cherry trees of Japan don’t discriminate geographically. This time of year, they grace even the surroundings of nuclear power generators shaken by earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns three years ago. Otherwise, though, the Fukushima landscape remains desolate. Despite widespread

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Two Giant Oarfish Spotted Off Mexican Beach (Video)

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Not again. Last year, as PlanetSave’s James Ayre reported, dead giant oarfishβ€”-bizarre and terrifying serpents of the sea (Regalecus glesne) five and six yards longβ€”-washed ashore at separate locations off the California coast during one week in October. Also last year, National Geographic documented video by a remotely operated undersea vehicle of a giant oarfish

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Our Way Of Life

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By Maggie Fox, President and CEO,Β Climate Reality Project It’s funny. A lot of the rhetoric we hear pushing back against putting a price on carbon pollution parrots the argument that β€œit would threaten our way of life.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Fossil fuels like oil and coal helped power us through the

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Megathrust Earthquake Strikes The North American West Coast — When Will The Inevitable Happen?

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When will the next megathrust earthquake strike the Pacific coast of North America? It’s an important question for those living in the region, and also more generally for the governments and economies of the United States and Canada, but it is a difficult one to answer. But now, new research may finally be helping to

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Greater Risk of Earthquake and Tsunami in Western Indian Ocean

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On Boxing Day of 2004 magnitude 9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, sparked a tsunami that took the lives of over 280,000 thousand people. The quake was caused when the Indian tectonic plate subducted underneath the Burma Plate, causing 1,600 kilometres of fault surface slippage in two phases over a

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Variety Of Tsunami Threats On U.S. East Coast, New Research Concludes

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  NewΒ studies conducted by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey have found that tsunamis pose a risk to the East Coast of the United States. Researcher Uri ten Brink noted that, “although the risk is small,” a variety of sources could actually trigger a tsunami on the East Coast. Brink also stated: “Hurricane Sandy showed

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Fossil Fuels & Global Warming Lead to Truly Extreme Weather

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  This was recently reposted over on CleanTechnica, from theΒ Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE),Β but I thought it made for a great Planetsave repost as well. It wasΒ written by SACE Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith. The lead-in video is from the insightful and super talented Peter Sinclair. Check it out: β€œWelcome to the rest of

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Connection between Climate Change & Extreme Weather Nailed by Al Jazeera English (Must Watch)

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  Via the always excellent Dr. Joe Romm of Climate Progress: Last week I wrote that β€œEvery Network Gets Extreme Weather Story Right.” The ABC News weather editor even ended his story, β€œNow’s the time we start limiting manmade greenhouse gases.” But the major networks only devoteΒ 3 minutes each to what is in fact the β€œClimate

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Whales and Elephants: Are They Instinctively Aware or Predictive of Tsunamis?

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  In April, as tsunami warnings hit the Indonesian and Sri Lankan coasts, sea-watching photographer and filmmaker Andrew Sutton of Britain was off the southern tip of Sri Lanka. He and his crew were watching and photographing whales who suddenly and completely vanished. The humans on the boat were not aware of why and were

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8.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast of Indonesia, Creates Tsunami – BREAKING

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An 8.7 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, reports the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quake struck at 08:38:38 UTC, or 02:38:38 PM at the epicenter, some 33 kilometres beneath seafloor of the Indian Ocean and was felt as far away as Bangkok in Thailand and southern India.

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Japan Was Struck By β€˜Double Tsunami’

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The devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan in March of 2011 has just been revealed to be a long-hypothesized but never proved β€˜merging tsunami’ that doubled in intensity after passing over rugged sub-sea topography, which amplified its destructive power prior to reaching the shore. Searching for a Ghost β€œIt was a one-in-ten-million chance

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Tracking the Japanese Tsunami Debris

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Most people will have seen the images depicting the devastating impact of the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake which destroyed coastal towns along the Japanese east coast near Sendai. Entire villages and communities are gone, along with the lives that inhabited them.

Of less, but still important, concern than the lives lost, is what will happen to all the debris which was washed out to sea as a result of the tsunami.

Projections of just what will happen to the debris have been made by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner at the University of HawaiΚ»i at Mānoa’s International Pacific Research Center, shown in the animated image below

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Limbaugh: Most Insensitive Remarks Regarding Japan's Devastation Possible [VIDEO]

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Apparently, Rush Limbaugh lacks all compassion for the people of Japan. On his show, he was laughing about the fact that Japanese are recycling even after the tremendous disasters that hit the country (video below). Not only does he mock the Japanese, but he completely mocks ABC’s Diane Sawyer. He also goes on to laugh at the fact that the Japanese, despite being very environmentally friendly, were so harmed by Mother Nature, and draws ridiculous conclusions from it.

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