Minnesota’s climate change time machine
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- The Courier Journal
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- AccuWeather
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From a trickle of water running between rocks in a dry, barren, mountainside landscape to a roaring river in a matter of mere minutes: Monsoon floods in the Southwest escalate quickly. Each summer, Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer, who may be best known for chasing tornadoes, goes on "flash flood chases" in which he aims to capture the moment that the rainwaters transform the parched landscape into a dangerous wall of water. A dramatic video recently captured by Timmer perfectly illustrated the
- Miami Herald
A Florida Keys man jumped in the water to retrieve a pool noodle. He soon needed help
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- CBS News
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- Lohud | The Journal News
Farmers' Almanac releases winter weather forecast, talks snow predictions
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- MarketWatch
A quarter of the U.S. will fall inside an extreme heat belt. Here are the states in the red zone.
First Street Foundation --- whose property-level climate-risk studies can be used by homebuyers --- adds a heat model to its tool for floods and wildfires.
- AccuWeather
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- Miami Herald
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- CBS News
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- KTTV
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- Naples Daily News
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- Miami Herald
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- The Holland Sentinel
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- LA Times
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- Bloomberg
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- LA Times
Column: Keeping the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open is a dangerous waste of effort and money
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- Corpus Christi Caller-Times
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- The Daily Beast
The Mad Plan to Save Earth by Flooding It With Phytoplankton
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThe main conversation around climate change primarily focuses on one thing: how much carbon is in the air—and by extension, how to reduce it. However, what is less talked about but may become incredibly important is how much carbon is in our oceans. There is 50 times more carbon in the ocean than the atmosphere. Some climate researchers believe if we could just slightly increase the amount of carbon the ocean can absorb from the atmosphere, we could avo