Last Updated: Friday, October 13, 2006 | 6:04 AM ET
The Associated Press Having just set a record for the "snowiest" October day, the city of Buffalo in western New York state braced for more Friday as the season's first snowfall closed schools and left 155,000 customers without electricity.
At least 60 centimetres of snow blanketed parts of the Buffalo area early Friday, signalling a possible second record-setting day. The snow downed scores of tree limbs and toppled power lines. |
CBS 2 Chicago
Oct 12, 2006 CHICAGO - The calendar said October, but it felt and looked more like December. Chicago picked up its first official snow of the season Thursday, setting a record for the earliest measurable snowfall.
A total of 0.3 inches of snow fell at O'Hare International Airport this morning, breaking a record set in 1972. While average date for the first trace of snow is Oct. 30, the first measurable snowfall usually does not come until mid-November. |
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Friday October 13, 2006 The Guardian Failure to take action to combat climate change will cause environmental catastrophe and cost the global economy $20 trillion (£10.8 trillion) a year by the end of the century, the pressure group Friends of the Earth says today.
In a report based on research from more than 100 scientific and economic papers, the group says allowing global warming to continue unchecked will mean a temperature rise of 4C by 2100, causing economic damage worth up to 8% of global GDP. Comment: If you can't convince people that global warming will lead to resource wars, civil war, and the loss of life as we know it, then tell 'em it's going to cost an arm and a leg...
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