A month after a historic winter storm brought Texas’s grid to its knees, leaving 5+ million without power, preliminary data recently released by the Texas Department of State Health Services reveals a grim picture — at least 57 Texans lost their lives.
The unlucky 57 perished as a direct result of the storm, according to data.
In Finnish capital region, snow piles built up this winter may not melt during summer.
THE CAPITAL REGION of Finland has received so much snow this winter that the metres-high piles hauled to designated snow dump areas may not melt during the course of the summer, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
In Uusimaa, for example, the amount of snow was 1.7 times higher than last year in January, according to Foreca.
Huge Sydney river breaks its banks causing wild flooding as towns are hammered with 300mm downpour.
The ferry terminal on the Parramatta River, in Sydney’s west, is completely flooded, with services to and from the area cancelled indefinitely until the once-in-100 year weather event is over.
Across other parts of NSW, the forecast rainfall is up to 300mm in the lower Blue Mountains over the next 24 hours and 400mm is predicted for the mid-north coast.
GENÈVE. Greta Thunberg var inte först. 1992 skakade den 12-åriga kanadensiskan Severn Suzuki om världens ledare under FN:s klimatkonferens i Rio de Janeiro.
Oslo MDG går i front med et forslag som vil forby bygging av nye bilbaserte kjøpesenter. Det skal heller ikke være lov å utvide allerede etablerte sentre. I tillegg foreslår partiet å la kommunene pålegge kjøpesentrene å ta betalt for parkeringen, selv om kjøpesentrene er på privat grunn.
Ifølge Equinor vil kostnaden ved å elektrifisere deler av sokkelen være omtrent 50 milliarder kroner. På grunn av skattesystemet for olje- og gassektoren i Norge, vil kostnadene i stor grad ende opp hos norske husholdninger.
Næsten halvdelen af året kan være sommer om 80 år, hvis vi lader klimaet køre los.
Forskere viser, hvordan sommeren allerede i dag er vokset markant og blevet en mere dominerende årstid. I 2100 kan vinteren være helt nede på en måned på den nordlige halvkugle.
Looking at NASA’s Vegetation Index data, the news is good: the globe has greened 10% so far this century.
That’s good news because we know this ultimately means greater crop production area and forest expansion. Ironically, what many “experts claim to be a huge problem (CO2) is in fact one of the major reasons behind the greening.
