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  2. The U.S. leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here's why.

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    The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather. Blame geography for the U.S. getting hit by stronger, costlier, more varied and frequent extreme weather than anywhere on the planet ...

  3. Year Without a Summer - Wikipedia

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    The Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England (US), Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe.

  4. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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    The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. The effects of extreme weather events are economic costs, loss of human lives, droughts, floods, landslides. Severe weather is a particular type of extreme weather which poses risks to life and property.

  5. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Energy flows between space, the atmosphere, and Earth's surface. Most sunlight passes through the atmosphere to heat the Earth's surface, then greenhouse gases absorb most of the heat the Earth radiates in response. Adding to greenhouse gases increases this insulating effect, causing an energy imbalance that heats the planet up.

  6. May has been a month of extreme weather around the world - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even for a world getting used to wild weather, May seems stuck on strange. Torrential downpours in Texas that have whiplashed the region from drought to flooding. A heat wave ...

  7. List of televised academic student quiz programs - Wikipedia

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    Although Channel 4 in the UK broadcast a game show titled Quiz Bowl for one series in 1991–92, this was not a quiz bowl per se, but rather a quiz designed to reflect the flow and scoring of the sport of American football.

  8. Are We Changing Planet Earth? - Wikipedia

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    As Attenborough points out, the Carbons are not bad people, but as Westerners, they have one of the most energy-hungry lifestyles on the planet. They are a two-car household, and each vehicle emits 10 tons of CO 2 over the course of a year. The power used to run the Carbons' home and all its comforts translates into a similar amount.

  9. North Henderson student one of four grand prize winners in ...

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    HENDERSONVILLE - For the second year in a row, a student from Henderson County Public Schools has won Optimum and TelevisUnivision's Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest, which is an annual ...