Tuesday, December 28, 2010

The Northeast Blizzard: One More Sign of Global Warming

It's become as much a winter tradition as eggnog at Christmas and champagne on New Year's Eve — the first major snowstorm of the year bringing out the climate-change skeptics...
Time Magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2039777,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular

Monday, December 20, 2010

2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards

This was the year the Earth struck back.

Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.

"It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010.

"The term `100-year event' really lost its meaning this year."

And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disater experts say:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101219/ap_on_sc/ye_sci_disastrous_year