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How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet. With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts. Save this story for later.
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POP Culture: 2010 In February 2010, a series of winter storms labeled "Snowmageddon" by President Obama blankets the east coast of the United States with up to 40 inches of snow in less than 1 week. British Petroleum's "Deepwater Horizon" offshore oil platform explodes on April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers.
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The state of the world's forests is now worse than it was when hundreds of governments and companies made a commitment to end deforestation by 2030. ... But a new report tracking the commitment, the New York Declaration on Forests, finds that the state of the world's forests is actually now worse.
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So are natural disasters getting worse? The answer is yes. The number of geophysical disasters on Earth's surface, like earthquakes, landslides and volcano eruptions, have remained steady since the 1970s. But the number of climate-related catastrophes has vastly increased.
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The frequency and intensity of extreme flooding events is on the rise. A warmer atmosphere has resulted in a 7% increase in water vapor floating overhead, jet fuel for developing storms. From 2010 to 2017 NOAA reported 25 separate 500-year flooding events, nationwide. ... Increasingly, our floods are becoming super-sized.
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HOW MUCH SNOW IN NYC THIS WINTER? ... The average winter snowfall in New York City is about 25 inches, so for the 2019-20 season, Ocean Weather Services is predicting that the 2019-2020 winter in New York City will most likely be between 24 and 32 inches.
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Rapid loss already contributing to sea level rise. The polar ice sheets are indeed shrinking—and fast, according to a comprehensive new study on climate change.
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A new study quantifies the socio-economic losses and environmental gains. The first comprehensive study of the pandemic shows consumption losses amount to more than US$3.8 trillion, triggering full-time equivalent job losses of 147 million and the biggest-ever drop in greenhouse gas emissions.
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There remains debate, however, on whether carbon dioxide can push surface temperatures towards the moist greenhouse limit. Climate scientist John Houghton has written that "[there] is no possibility of [Venus's] runaway greenhouse conditions occurring on the Earth".
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In 2019, climate change contributed to extreme weather events causing at least $100 billion in damages. By 2050, cumulative damages from climate change may reach $8 trillion, impoverishing the world as a whole by 3% of GDP and the poorest regions by more.
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The world's already overtaxed fisheries are being stressed to their limits by climate change, putting at risk a critical component of the world's diet. As temperatures rise, fish populations are projected to plummet and disappear in some regions, especially in the tropics. In a major report published Sept.
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['Garbage piles up.', 'Landfills increase in number.', 'Greenhouse gases increase.', 'Fossil fuels disappear sooner.', 'Natural resources diminish.']
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Climate change is estimated to cause the sea level along the coast of New York City to rise anywhere from one to three and a half feet by 2080 at a cost of billions of dollars in lost property and assets. Storm surges affecting shoreline properties will also increase by as much as 15 feet in that same timeframe.
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's ecological footprint was the “highest in the world.” Shutterstock In 2009, the New York Times reported that NASA satellites had found that the Palm Jumeirah island was sinking at a rate of 0.20 inches per year, a claim that Nakheel denies is true.
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Beginning on 22 February 2018, Great Britain and Ireland were affected by a cold wave, dubbed the Beast from the East by the media (Irish: An Torathar ón Oirthear) and officially named Anticyclone Hartmut, which brought widespread unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfall to large areas.
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Whatever we call it, global warming is impacting every living being on planet earth including plants and animals, in addition to ice caps melting, increasing sea levels and the extinction of plant and animal species. ... This is especially true for migratory wildlife and plants including mangroves, seagrass and coral.
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And the number of New Yorkers who are in poverty has gone down since 2014, from 20.6 percent to 19.5 percent. In 2016, the NYCGov poverty threshold was $34,402, compared to $31,756 in 2015 and $31,581 in 2014, the report said.