Snow costs US businesses $1bn but jobs pressure eases - Business News, Business - The Independent

US businesses have been counting the cost of the snowstorm that swept through the north-east on Boxing Day, making roads impassable and grounding thousands of flights.

Retailers suffered an estimated $1bn in lost or delayed sales, as blizzard conditions deterred people from hitting stores to take advantage of post-Christmas sales and, with air travel still getting back to normal yesterday, airlines may have to swallow $150m in losses from the disruption.

Crisis meeting in N.Ireland over water supplies - Yahoo! News

Doctors warned the continued shortages could spark a public health crisis as engineers struggled to repair thousands of pipes which sprang leaks following some of the coldest weather in the province for decades.

Global Warming Wrecked My Car

With the wisdom of Al Gore guiding my mouse, I offhandedly watch the results of a massive snowstorm on traffic cams. Vehicles spin out of control, sliding into one another, wreaking havoc and further snarling traffic.

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even under the IPCC’s worst-case scenario, by 2085 climate change is expected to account for just 10 percent of the cumulative death toll from starvation, vector-borne diseases and flooding.