[HOSTED.AP.ORG] When the pilot of his small plane collapsed in the cockpit, passenger John Wildey took the controls of the Cessna 172 over England, and suddenly began his first experience of landing - with some help from instructors on the ground.
"I hadn't a clue what to do to get down," the 77-year-old Wildey told the BBC on Wednesday. "I've never flown a plane before."
Officials at Humberside Airport in northwest England put emergency plans into place and flight instructors were called in to help Wildey after the mayday call went out Tuesday evening.
Soon after he landed, his friend the pilot, the only other person aboard the aircraft, died.
Wildey praised the flight instructors who talked him through several attempts to land before he touched down in the dark in what he described as a "controlled crash."
He said he began to veer off the runway as he was attempting to reach the brakes and could see a wall rapidly approaching.
"I thought `I ain't going to do it,' but we managed to stop in the end," he said.
Emergency services were waiting when the plane touched down, after a few bumps.
Rob Murray, one of the flight instructors, said he was glad to have helped and that Wildey did a "remarkable job," given he had never flown a plane before.
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"We've looked at how climate change will affect Copenhagen in the long-term future. For Copenhagen, the most serious effect of climate change will be increased precipitation, so we've developed a plan that addresses how to catch all the rainwater in the city." Leonardsen, a city planner, belongs to the 10-person team working solely on long-term climate change adaptation, planning ahead to the year 2100. Wow. Every day, you and nine other Copenhagers, working solely on climate change? Good news is that they won't be around in 2100 to see the results of their handiwork...
"But in Denmark, sustainable city planning is not a niche; it's just what we do. And you have to remember that sustainability is not just about the environment. It's also about creating local jobs."
Copenhageners, in other words, have realized that doing the right thing for the environment brings jobs -- and higher living standards -- to the city. "Both from a financial and a sustainability perspective, it makes sense to do as much as possible as early as possible," says Mathiesen. "If you don't build things like pocket parks, you'll have problems with flooding. We can't live with flooding that brings the city to a halt for several days each time." Good thing they have the money to spend.
Other cities are embarking on similar plans. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York this year presented a record $19.5bn climate change adaptation plan, with 250 specific projects reaching into the 2050s. Toronto, Rotterdam and Boston, too, have advanced plans with solutions from floating pavilions to terraced levees. Some 20% of the world's cities now have climate change adaptation plans in place. "While governments are mired in negotiations, cities are leaping forward," observes Gaffin. "City populations recognize the threats from climate change." Then a little bit of cold water for the hot climate, from the Guardian:
But while pocket parks and cloudburst boulevards sound charming, green infrastructure remains experimental. It's uncertain how effective percolating pavements will be, for example, and the trees in green streets face daily threats from cars. Besides, nobody really knows what the world will look like in 2050, let alone 2100. Hear, hear! They know. The science is settled, remember?
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Wasted cash.
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You CAN'T control the sun.
You CAN suck away cash.
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Climate change is occuring here in East Tennessee. It's a lot cooler now than back in August and I predict it will be downright cold in January. Where's my grant money?
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It's a lot cooler now than back in August and I predict it will be downright cold in January.
Sounds like the onset of the next Ice Age. We are about due for the next one.
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Climate changes is all about making some folks feel superior to others. If it makes the whole city feel superior enough that they don't mind the waste of money so be it.
I refuse to feel inferior to folks who burn money over their feelings though.
By 2043, 147 cities - more than half of those studied - will have shifted to a hotter temperature regime that is beyond historical records. The first U.S. cities to feel that would be Honolulu and Phoenix, followed by San Diego and Orlando, Fla., in 2046. New York and Washington will get new climates around 2047, with Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, Austin and Dallas a bit later. I imagine the study calculated the precise date and time the climate shifted to the new version, Climate II
Mora calculated that the last of the 265 cities to move into their new climate will be Anchorage, Alaska - in 2071. There's a five-year margin of error on the estimates. What's the margin of error on the input?
Unlike previous research, the study highlights the tropics more than the polar regions. In the tropics, temperatures don't vary much, so a small increase can have large effects on ecosystems, he said. A 3-degree change is not much to polar regions but is dramatic in the tropics, which hold most of the Earth's biodiversity, he said. I wonder if Watt's Up With That has taken this apart yet?
Study author Camilo Mora and his colleagues said they hope this new way of looking at climate change will spur governments to do something before it is too late. "Now is the time to act," said another study co-author, Ryan Longman. Better start with China and India!
Judith Curry, a Georgia Institute of Technology climate scientist who often clashes with mainstream scientists, said she found Mora's approach to make more sense than the massive report that came out of the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last month. So is Curry a hyper-warmer or a minor-league-denier?
Pennsylvania State University's Michael Mann said the research "may actually be presenting an overly rosy scenario when it comes to how close we are to passing the threshold for dangerous climate impacts. By some measures, we are already there." Now I am really worried!
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Notice how the projection keep getting further and further out. Why these people are like politicians who arrange government employee retirement plans far enough out in the future when they won't be around to be held accountable for misrepresentations and bookkeeping fraud.
[THECOURIER] Donald Eugene Miller Jr. walked out of Hancock County Probate Court on Monday as legally dead as ever.
In 1994, the court ruled that Miller was legally dead, eight years after he disappeared from his Arcadia rental home.
The same judge, Allan Davis, ruled Monday that Miller is still dead, in the eyes of the law. Miller's request for a reversal came well after the three-year legal limit for changing a death ruling, Davis said.
Miller, 61, now of Fostoria, spoke softly in court and offered few details about his past. Miller said he was an alcoholic who was unsure what to do after losing his job.
"My paycheck was being taken away from me and I had nothing left," he said.
"It kind of went further than I ever expected it to," Miller said. "I just kind of took off, ended up in different places," he said.
He said he briefly worked odd jobs in Atlanta and Marathon, Fla., after leaving Hancock County sometime before 1990.
His parents informed him of his "death" upon his return to Ohio in about 2005, he said.
Miller told Judge Davis he neither sought alcohol treatment nor contacted his children in the time after he left.
Miller said he would like to start his life again, or "whatever's left of it." He asked the court to reverse its 1994 death ruling so he can reinstate his canceled Social Security number and driver's license.
The court said no.
Miller may still be able to challenge the Social Security Administration in federal court. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... his attorney, Francis Marley, said Miller does not have the resources to do so.
"My client's here on a wing and a prayer today," Marley said.
Miller's ex-wife, Robin Miller, had asked for the death ruling so Social Security death benefits could be paid to their two children. Donald Miller was last reported in Arcadia around 1986 and was declared dead in 1994, she has said.
Robin Miller declined to testify on Monday.
She said after the court hearing that Donald Miller left the state with hefty child support bills. He was scared of a jail term, she said. He owed about $26,000 in overdue child support by 1994, she has said.
Robin Miller opposed his request for a change in the death ruling, because she does not want to repay the Social Security benefits. She does not have the money, she said.
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[USNEWS.NBCNEWS] An unusually early and enormous snowstorm over the weekend caught South Dakota ranchers and farmers unprepared, killing tens of thousands of cattle and ravaging the state's $7 billion industry -- an industry left without assistance because of the federal government shutdown.
As many as 75,000 cattle have perished since the storm slammed the western part of the state Thursday through Saturday with snowfall that set records for the entire month of October in just three days, state and industry officials said.
Across the state, snow totals averaged 30 inches, with some isolated areas recording almost 5 feet, The Weather Channel reported.
The South Dakota Stock Growers Association estimated that 15 percent to 20 percent of all cattle were killed in some parts of the state. Some ranchers reported that they lost half or more of their herds.
The storm was accompanied by hurricane-force wind gusts, especially Friday night, which drove some herds seeking shelter miles from their ranches. A trail of carcasses left a gruesome sight, said Martha Wierzbicki, emergency management director for Butte County, in the northwestern corner of the state.
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The guy that wrote that headline was really pushing the boundaries of reality. But then that's what Global Warmists do.
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Similar to an article I posted yesterday, but I linked to the Weather.com site - they were not quite so hyperbolic as the media. From Weather.com is a more balanced perspective (my emphasis) -
Ranchers and officials said the losses were aggravated by the fact that a government disaster program to help ranchers recover from livestock losses has expired. Ranchers won't be able to get federal help until Congress passes a new farm bill.
I believe Congress is still in session.
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Globull Worming.
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I'll be waiting for the first Wormacane.
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What, no Sharknado, Deacon? ;-p
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[Al Ahram] Popular satirist Bassem Youssef will be back to his weekly TV show after an almost three-month hiatus following the downfall of Egypt's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
Youssef said on Wednesday his widely-viewed political satirical show, El-Bernameg ('The Programme'), will be broadcast again in late October, defying the odds of an anticipated permanent halt to the show, which analysts say faces a tough challenge to provide political satire in the post-Morsi transitional phase of the turmoil-hit country.
"Sorry to disappoint fans of the rumour mill, we will be back on the same channel Friday 25 October," Youssef said on his Twitter feed.
El-Bernameg, which is modeled on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in the US and broadcast on private TV channel CBC, was stopped after an episode in early July was cancelled amid political unrest in the wake of the ouster of Morsi. Youssef then announced a month-long break during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which fell in July this year.
A media advisor of El-Bernameg has said the interruption in broadcast, as well as a night-time curfew authorities imposed amid violence following the dispersal of Islamist sit-ins in mid-August, held back shooting of the show, which takes place at a downtown Cairo theatre with a live audience.
"Any other reports about problems with the channel or security-related matters are mere rumors," Mohammed Fathy, El-Bernameg's public relations advisor told Ahram Online.
In July TV comments, Youssef said his programme might resume by mid-August or September, plans that were further stalled by his mother's death early in September, noted Fathy
Youssef's absence since then, amid a deliberate period of silence from show insiders, has raised doubts about the future of the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... political satirist, with many speculating he might not be able to resume his political lampoon after Morsi's fall, arguing that satirising the country's interim leaders and the military which deposed him would not be an easy task.
Fathy however noted that Youssef presented 100 episodes of his debut show during the transitional military rule following the downfall of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
"At the time the situation wasn't less critical and we did not know what was going to happen next, and he [Youssef] did not stop."
"The team presents its viewpoint and do what they believe in regardless of the challenges," Fathy added.
El-Bernameg, which has been a smash hit with 30 million Egyptian viewers, repeatedly mocked president Morsi and made witty parodies of him and other bully boy Islamists. The show has been seen as highly instrumental in exposing the failings and transgressions of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, making Youssef one of their formidable foes.
"It's shameful and wrong for this type of programme to disappear just because the regime has fallen, and we do not have a president who delivers speeches or [Islamist] channels that make mistakes," Youssef said in a TV interview in July.
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[Al Ahram] The corpse count from festivities between ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition and local self-defence groups in the Central African Republic has climbed to nearly 50, a security official said Wednesday.
An earlier toll had put the number of killed in Tuesday's outbreak of fresh sectarian violence in the country's northwest at at least 30, with dozens more injured.
"The latest toll of the festivities in Garga is nearly 50 dead, most of them people who were rubbed out in cold blood in their homes," the official told AFP, referring to a small mining town about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital Bangui.
The fighting stopped Wednesday, allowing local Red Thingy rescuers and relatives of those killed to bury their dead, said the source, who did not wish to be named.
Most Garga residents have left the town and "many are hiding in the bush".
Former Seleka rebels set up base in the Garga mining region several months ago, warning operators and others not to go near the mines.
Outraged farmers then created self-defence groups and attacked the rebel base on Monday morning, said the official.
The former rebels reacted "going from home to home searching for men and youths they systematically bumped off after accusing them of working with" the self-defence groups.
Witnesses contacted by AFP at Bossembele, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Garga, said residents "continue to flee the region on Wednesday with their belongings or empty-handed".
The poor, landlocked nation has been mired in chaos since the Seleka coalition of rebels ousted longtime president Francois Bozize in March.
A new government was put in place and Seleka was disbanded in name but continues to operate as a proto-militia in the region.
The country has seen an increase in festivities between the former rebel coalition that led the coup, who are Musselmen, and the local self-defence groups formed by rural residents who are Christian, in common with around 80 percent of the population.
Some 1.6 million people nationwide -- one third of the population -- need humanitarian aid and nearly 300,000 are internally displaced or have fled to neighbouring countries, according to UN figures.
The UN Security Council will vote a resolution on Thursday that takes the first steps toward sending a peacekeeping force to end anarchy in the Central African Republic, diplomats said.
The draft resolution, obtained by AFP, expressed deep concern at the "total breakdown of law and order" since Bozize's ouster.
It calls on Seleka rebels to lay down their arms and for UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to draw up a report in the next month on options to help a small African force already in the country, the International Support Mission in Central African Republic, or MISCA.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Azerbaijan's leader Ilham Aliyev has claimed victory in presidential polls, thanking the Azeri people for electing him to a third term.
With about three-quarters of the votes counted Mr Aliyev had won nearly 85%, the national election commission said.
The president called the election a "triumph of democracy", but opposition groups alleged widespread fraud.
Mr Aliyev inherited the presidency from his father in 2003. He has stifled dissent and scrapped term limits.
So confident was he of victory on Wednesday, he did not run a campaign.
"Azerbaijan will continue successfully to develop as a democratic country," Mr Aliyev said in a pre-recorded TV address. "The fact that this election was free and transparent is another serious step towards democracy."
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[BBC.CO.UK] Russian Sherlocks say they have found what appear to be hard drugs on board the Greenpeace ship seized during a protest in the Arctic last month.
"During a search of the ship, drugs (apparently poppy straw and morphine) were confiscated," Russia's Investigative Committee said.
Poppy straw, or raw opium, can be used to produce morphine or heroin.
Greenpeace said in a statement that any suggestion of illegal drugs being found was a "smear".
"We can only assume the Russian authorities are referring to the medical supplies that our ships are obliged to carry under maritime law," it said.
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Whom do I believe: a former KGB operative or Greenpeace activists? Given the circumstances, an easy question to answer.
[Al Ahram] South Korea's spy chief has said he is "aware" of the alleged execution of members of the North's national orchestra, said to include a singer rumoured to be leader Kim Jong-Un's former girlfriend.
Several members of the orchestra and other state music troupes had been executed by firing squad for taping themselves having sex, Japan's Asahi Shimbun said last month in a report that was picked up by South Korean broadcasters and websites.
Asahi said the rare execution of state performers -- including a woman thought to be Kim's ex-girlfriend -- in August had been ordered to squash rumours about the decadent lifestyle of North Korean first lady Ri Sol-Ju while she was an entertainer.
North Korea has angrily denied reports of the executions, calling the media accounts an "unpardonable" crime.
On Tuesday South Korea's spy agency chief commented for the first time on the accusations.
"We are aware of the execution of some 10 people associated with the Unhasu Orchestra", two politicians quoted Nam Jae-Joon as saying at a closed door parliamentary session, according to Yonhap news agency.
Nam, director of the National Intelligence Service, said the agency had no information whether Ri had any connection with the execution.
The North's state news agency KCNA has said the reports on the executions were the work of "psychopaths" and "confrontation maniacs" in the South Korean government and media.
"This is an unpardonable, hideous provocation hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership," a KCNA commentary said last month.
In an apparent attempt to further negate the rumours, North Korean radio on Wednesday aired a performance by the orchestra, Yonhap reported.
Pyongyang Bangsong radio broadcast a quintette entitled "Hymn of the Fatherland", saying it was conducted by Unhasu's conductor Ri Myong-Il and included Italia-educated singer Hwang Un-Mi.
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[Al Ahram] There's a heated debate in Canada over Quebec's proposal to ban symbols of religious faith such as Jewish skullcaps, Sikh turbans, Mohammedan head scarves and large crucifixes from public work places.
The proposed ban is part of what the Quebec government calls its "charter of values." It has divided the province of 8.1 million and mobilized the opposition.
In recent weeks, Montreal has witnessed the rare spectacle of thousands of protesting Mohammedans, Jews and Sikhs marching together through the streets.
And reactions have been fierce elsewhere in Canada.
The federal Conservative government says it will fight the change in court. The Ontario legislature passed a motion of condemnation, and the Mohammedan mayor of Calgary has invited religious minorities to move to his city where "we don't care how you worship."
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Wrong approach. If it's about faith people will (rightly) resent and resist. If it's about health and safety (we need to see your face on your ID) it will fly.
Problem with health and safety, though, is that all manner of atrocities are routinely committed under this rubric. Wish people could tell the difference, but alas...
[Dawn] A woman suffered severe burns when her husband allegedly set her ablaze by throwing petrol on her at her house in Mardan district of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , her family said Wednesday.
Shahida, who is currently fighting for her life at a hospital in Chakwal district of Punjab province, said her husband Taseer Khan sprinkled petrol on her and set her on fire after a minor domestic dispute.
The burn victim, in her mid-twenties, said she was locked up in a room and was not allowed medical treatment for three days after the incident.
The girl's family said she received medical attention only after they rescued her from her husband's house and took her to a hospital in Chakwal, where she is now being treated.
Shahida suffered severe burn injuries on her face while her entire body was badly charred.
Murad, a brother of the ill-fated girl, said that about 90 per cent of her body had been burnt and her condition was "very serious". The family also claimed the victim was also pregnant at the time of the alleged incident and that she suffered a miscarriage after she was badly beaten up by her husband.
When contacted, officers at the Mardan Cantt Police station said they have taken Taseer Khan under custody after registering an attempted murder case against the accused.
The police said they had initiated further investigation into the case.a
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Now why did I know that it would have "India-Pakistan" at the top of the article? And that the location would indicate Pakistan?
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Love the picture. The old grand operas had some of the most artistic creations. Méphistophélès had a hand in this. I would get another advisor if I was this fellow.
[Dawn] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court on Wednesday banned the open sale of acid, DawnNews reported.
Chief Justice Peshawar High Court, Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, heard the case pertaining to an acid attack.
Justice Khan remarked that acid was being used as a form of weapon, adding that women were being targeted with it.
He moreover said that leaders legislate day in and out for their own interests, but do not implement court orders.
Earlier in June, a young Pashto actress Bushra had suffered critical burn injuries after a local TV drama producer allegedly threw acid on her while she was asleep in her home, her family members had claimed.
Acid attacks are seen to be on the rise in northwest Pakistain
Bushra was only among the most recent victim of acid attacks -- a crime that experts say is on the rise in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... In year 2012, 150 acid attack cases were registered in Pakistain, 30 of which were reported from KP's Mardan district alone.
According to the Islamabad-based NGO, Acid Survivors Foundation, the data shows an upward trend in this form of violence targeting women. Some 45 per cent of the acid attacks are the result of family feuds while 17 per cent are linked to refusals to marriage proposals.
Moreover, a report by the Aurat Foundation released in January 2013 said that although the total number of reported cases of violence against women had decreased by 12 per cent, a deeper analysis showed a significant 89 per cent increase in cases of acid-throwing, followed by a 62 per cent rise in domestic violence.
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[Dawn] Traders subjected two robbers to severe torture, leaving one of them dead, after a vendor was rubbed out during a robbery bid at a jewellery shop at Mamunkanjan on Tuesday.
Two robbers entered the shop owned by Shahid in Purana Dakhana Bazaar, Mamunkanjan. As the shop owner put up resistance, the panicked outlaws opened indiscriminate fire. A bullet hit Tanveer Ali, a vendor present outside the shop, who was struck down in his prime.
The traders retaliated the fire and forced the robbers to flee the market. They gave a chase to outlaws and finally nabbed them.
The furious traders subjected the both robbers to severe torture and tied one of them to a pole and dowsed him with petrol as the mob gathering there rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud demanding the outlaws be set on fire.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... the police concerned reached there and tried to get custody of the robbers. But the traders would not hand them over to the police.
The infuriated protesters told the police that they would themselves give robbers an exemplary punishment in public to caution others who had made their lives a hell.
After negotiations with traders, the police managed to rescue the badly injured outlaws and shifted them to the Rural Health Centre at Chak 509, where one of them departed this vale of tears. The condition of the other robber was also said to be critical.
Talking to Dawn by phone, a trader, Ashraf Gujjar, said the robbers had been looting people in broad daylight and police were nowhere to protect them.
He said a number of times police had been requested to increase patrolling in the area but to no avail.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] When the pilot of his small plane collapsed in the cockpit, passenger John Wildey took the controls of the Cessna 172 over England, and suddenly began his first experience of landing - with some help from instructors on the ground.
"We've looked at how climate change will affect Copenhagen in the long-term future. For Copenhagen, the most serious effect of climate change will be increased precipitation, so we've developed a plan that addresses how to catch all the rainwater in the city." Leonardsen, a city planner, belongs to the 10-person team working solely on long-term climate change adaptation, planning ahead to the year 2100.
By 2043, 147 cities - more than half of those studied - will have shifted to a hotter temperature regime that is beyond historical records. The first U.S. cities to feel that would be Honolulu and Phoenix, followed by San Diego and Orlando, Fla., in 2046. New York and Washington will get new climates around 2047, with Los Angeles, Detroit, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, Austin and Dallas a bit later.
[THECOURIER] Donald Eugene Miller Jr. walked out of Hancock County Probate Court on Monday as legally dead as ever.
[USNEWS.NBCNEWS] An unusually early and enormous snowstorm over the weekend caught South Dakota ranchers and farmers unprepared, killing tens of thousands of cattle and ravaging the state's $7 billion industry -- an industry left without assistance because of the federal government shutdown.
The fighting stopped Wednesday, allowing local 
[BBC.CO.UK] Azerbaijan's leader Ilham Aliyev has claimed victory in presidential polls, thanking the Azeri people for electing him to a third term.
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[Dawn] A woman suffered severe burns when her husband allegedly set her ablaze by throwing petrol on her at her house in Mardan district of northwestern 
