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Duluth workshops focus on [allegedly] climate-enhanced flooding

As the one-year anniversary of the Twin Ports area’s worst flooding approaches, two conservation groups are sponsoring workshops in Duluth on how the Northland can adapt to increased floods spurred by a warmer climate.

[June 5, 2013] Yukon River Communities on Alaska's Western Coast Flood

Ice clogging Alaska’s Yukon River has worked its way downstream, moving slowly closer to the state’s southwestern coast and the Bering Sea. With spring in full swing, ice jams were almost history, but the Yukon clogged up once more and caused flooding in the villages of Emmonak and Alakanuk.

Forest Service chief to Congress: Climate change is responsible for these wildfires, you know « Hot Air

While environmentalist groups continue to clamor for more big government as the supposed solution to environmental problems, the federal government has managed to orchestrate a century of awful policy that has turned America’s public lands into increasingly dry fuel — and yet bureaucrats so often manage to overlook that fact when they are hurrying to pin our heightened fire-risk problems entirely on the politically convenient excuse of climate change.

Mine-dependent Mongolia to push renewables as climate change bites -president | Reuters

The World Bank ranked the capital, Ulan Bator, among the world's most polluted cities during winter, a consequence mostly of coal burned by residents to stave off temperatures often reaching -30 degrees Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit).