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• Video: Environment Agency recreation of Cockermouth flooding

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  A 3D animation, released by the Environment Agency, which shows the extent of the flooding that devastated Cockermouth in Cumbria last month
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• Hurricane season ends with lowest level of activity since 1997

  
  Thornton and Denver Weather News and Commentary — Authority: 126
  Hurricane Bill was the most powerful hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season but it never struck the United States. (NASA) Yesterday marked the end of the 2009 hurricane season and with it comes to a close one of the quietest seasons in recent history. The season featured nine named storms, the fewest since ...
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• Porn Causes Tsunamis and Earthquakes

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 598
  The interesting PZ Myers writes on Pharyngula : Powerful stuff, that porn. The Indonesian Minister of Communication and Information (who must be very smart to have a title like that) has determined that recent natural disasters in his country are a consequence of the ubiquity of pornographic DVDs . His logic is ...
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• Climate change could kill more than 400,000 children every year

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 486
  In a recent report that shows the impact of climate change and natural disasters on children, the leading charity “ Save the Children ” has warned that climate change could kill more than 400,000 children every year by 2030 because of floods and droughts. Next year only, a quarter of a million children will die as ...
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• Caravan park residents rescued

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Eleven people rescued in North Yorkshire as Met Office forecasts snow in northern England over coming week Residents had to be rescued from a flooded caravan park in North Yorkshire overnight, as the Environment Agency issued 31 flood warnings across the UK. Eleven people were rescued from caravans in North ...
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• Video: Bangladesh - Rising tides force climate migration

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Two families struggle to cope with their new environmental reality as water levels rise in Bangladesh Harriet Grant John Domokos
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• Climate change may kill 400,000 children every year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, November 30 (ANI): In a new report, a leading charity has warned that climate change could kill more than 400,000 children every year in the future because of floods and droughts.According to the Telegraph, the effects of climate change on children was compiled in a special report by a charity known as ‘Save ...
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• Indonesian Minister-God Doesn’t Like Immoral People!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 148
  Tifatul Sembining, Communication and Information Minister in the government of Indonesia has come up with an explanation about why there are hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters that result in the death of thousands– IMMORALITY! He cites recent disasters which have impacted his nation as caused by ...
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• First-rate Info On Portable and LP Generators

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 153
  There are some individuals who acquire takeout generators as a backwards up shaper for their tenting excursions and households. One of the broad end takeout generators acquirable to the open is the Honda EU1000i Portable Generator, although, it is pricy. It uses an inverter profession that is render efficient, very ...
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• Flood Insurance, Climate Change, and the "Public Option"

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 636
  As the idea of a "public option" for health insurance has risen to become one of the most contentious political issues of the decade in America, perhaps it would be useful to point out a rarely acknowledged fact: we already ...
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• Gidi Grinstein at “Security Strip” Radio Show

  
  Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog — Authority: 128
  In an interview on Army Radio this week, President of the Reut Institute Gidi Grinstein explained that “In order to face national emergencies, such as a natural disaster, Israel must mobilize its society into a ‘Civil Resilience Network’According to Grinstein, “Israel has learned to respond to crises on the ...
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• Wow, Some People Are Very Stupid

  
  Blogging with Badger — Authority: 136
  People like Indonesian Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring who blamed Indonesia’s recent string of natural disasters on television programs that “destroyed morals”. From the BBC : His comments came as he addressed a prayer meeting on Friday in Padang, Sumatra, which was hit by a powerful ...
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• Silvio Berlusconi keeps his promise to the earthquake victims of LAquila

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Last tent to be struck tomorrow but natural disaster is still shattering lives in rubble-strewn city When Silvio Berlusconi returns to LAquila tomorrow for the removal of the last of the tents put up to house the victims of the earthquake that struck the city on 6 April, he can expect a heros welcome. The Italian ...
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• NASA satellite captures image of Russian volcano’s smoke

  
  Thornton and Denver Weather News and Commentary — Authority: 126
  NASAs Terra satellite captured this image of a smoke plume coming from the Bezymianny volcano on the the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. (NASA) The Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is a relatively active area for volcanic activity, like much of the rest of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Bezymianny volcano in the ...
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• Cricket association insures India-Sri Lanka ODI in Cuttack

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bhubaneswar, Nov 27 (IANS) The Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) has insured the one day international cricket match which will be played between India and Sri Lanka at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack Dec 21 for Rs.14 crore, the association secretary said Friday.It has insured the match with Oriental Insurance Company. ...
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• Saudi rare floods kill 48, strand hundreds

  
  Cempaka Global Hotspots — Authority: 132
  The Jakarta Post , (AP) , Mount Arafat, Saudi Arabia | Thu, 11/26/2009 4:41 PM Officials say 48 people have died in Saudi Arabia and 900 were rescued after the heaviest rainfall in years. A spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry, Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, said Thursday that none of the ...
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• Video: Cumbria: Life after the floods

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Chris Thomond and Martin Wainwright look at life after the floods for the residents of Workington Martin Wainwright Christian Bennett
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• Supreme Court Will Rule on Florida Shoreline Protection Program

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 536
  It’s a classic feud predicated upon the idea I have my land, now you cannot have yours . In this case, the land is the pristine white beach that stretches along the Florida Panhandle, a beach that has been restored over the past 30 years through a renourishment and restoration program . Turns out homeowners with ...
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• How big a flood plain should we protect?

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 125
  Canada usually regulates floodplain development on the basis of a 100 year storm (the storm calculated to have a 1% chance to happen each year) or a regional storm. The White House is now consulting on a new executive order that would expand floodplain protection for critical facilities, from the 100 to the 500 year ...
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• Michael Whites political briefing | Britain under water: How the state responded

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In imperial China a surfeit of floods, famines and earthquakes was usually taken to signify that the mandate of heaven, a more conditional version of Europes divine right of kings, had been withdrawn from a particular emperor. Many Americans felt that way about the Bush dynasty after it abjectly failed to protect New ...
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