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- Global deaths and disasters down: UN shameless lies, up Fri, 7 Jun 24, 6:28amBy Jo Nova To solve the increase in global disasters just axe the UN Despite a galactic rise in Headlines of Doom, the world is a safer place than ever...
- What crisis? We put out a trillion tons of man-made CO2 yet global disaster losses are shrinking Mon, 15 Jan 24, 2:37amBy Jo Nova If man-made climate change does anything at all, it makes Global Disasters tamer Humans produced 980 billion tons of CO2 in the last 32 years, yet global losses due to weather related damage are shrinking as a...
- Politics of Attributing Extreme Events and Disasters to Climate Change Tue, 14 Dec 21, 1:00amWe caution awareness: climate change never causes loss or damage independently of the social conditions on the ground in specific places; the degree to which climate change can trigger disaster depends on the degree to which...
- Shock-me-not: CO2 doesn’t cause multiple back-to-back disasters in Australia Wed, 15 Sep 21, 4:40amMultiple Cyclones, Fires, Floods and Heatwaves striking Australians at same rate for last 55 years
- Weekly climate disasters give new urgency to resilience Wed, 10 Jul 19, 2:30amSomewhere in the world, there is a climate disaster unfolding every week. According to the leading disaster risk reduction adviser for the United Nation’s secretary general, climate related disasters are affecting thousands...
- Climate disasters are less costly, less deadly, and corporate warnings are just $1T of hot air Fri, 7 Jun 19, 8:07pmHitting the presses today, the vacuous news that lots of companies picked huge numbers out of the air using broken models to guess hyperbolic climate losses coming in the next five years, counter to all the trends for the...
- Help Reaction Housing Send Stackable Exo Emergency Shelters to Refugees in Syria! Tue, 11 Mar 14, 4:00pmThe Exo Shelter is inspired by the humble coffee cup - a sturdy, stackable, insulated object that is easily transported and utilized to deliver life-saving sustenance...
- Australian Billionaire to Reenact Titanic Voyage for $1 Million a Ticket Fri, 27 Dec 13, 10:00pmAn Australian billionaire named Clive Palmer has apparently decided to tempt fate by building a full-sized, working replica of the Titanic. Already, 40,000 people have expressed an interest in attending the vessel’s maiden...
- BVN Architecture Unveils 3D Puzzle Emergency Shelter at Melbourne Exhibition Fri, 10 May 13, 11:47pmThe Melbourne Emergency Shelter Exhibition lasted from May 1-5, 2013 and was held in Federation Square where leading architects from the area designed and built emergency shelters...
- Futuristic Tornado-Proof Home Sinks Into the Ground at the First Sign of a Twister Sat, 10 Sep 11, 2:20amRead the rest of Futuristic Tornado-Proof Home Sinks Into the Ground at the First Sign of a Twister Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", 10 design, design for disaster, Disaster-proof...