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Looming storm to end flooded Britons respite from deluge

2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Princes William and Harry helped flood protection efforts on the River Thames west of London as a new storm hit the U.K. with drenching rains, threatening to prolong the risk of inundations for another week. The princes, second and fourth in line to the British throne, joined members of the Household Cavalry and Network Rail staff lugging sandbags to shore up defenses in the riverside Berkshire village of Datchet, video footage from the Guardian newspapers website shows. Hundreds of homes...

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State Dept. gives Obama political cover to OK Keystone XL pipeline looming over his legacy

2014-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: President Barack Obama is running out of reasons to say no to Keystone XL, the proposed oil pipeline that's long been looming over his environmental legacy. Five years after the pipeline's backers first asked the Obama administration for approval, the project remains in limbo, stuck in a complex regulatory process that has enabled Obama to put off what will inevitably be a politically explosive decision. But the release Friday of a long-awaited government report removes a major excuse for delay,...

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Keystone pipeline review looming, likely to show little climate risk

2014-01-31 07:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The U.S. State Department is poised to issue an environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that will likely say the project will not appreciably increase carbon emissions, sources said late Thursday, forcing President Barack Obama closer to a tough decision. Rumors swept through Washington late Thursday that the long-delayed review of the 1,179-mile (1,900-km) pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Nebraska would finally be released as soon as Friday. "The Environmental Impact...

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Looming Danger of Abrupt Climate Change

2013-12-26 10:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CounterPunch: The National Research Council of the National Academies (NRCNA) has pre-published (available to the public as of Dec. 2013), an extensive 200-pg study: Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change, Anticipating Surprises. The goal of the report is to prepare society to anticipate the otherwise unanticipated before it occurs, including abrupt changes to the ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems and high latitude regions. The NRCNA timescale for abrupt climate change is defined as years-to-decades. The history...

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