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Fierce Wildfires Force Thousands of Californians to Flee
2015-09-14 20:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: One person is dead and up to 1,000 homes and buildings have burned down in a fast-moving northern California wildfire that exploded through dry brush and trees, fire officials said. Started Saturday, the Valley Fire had set 50,000 acres ablaze as of Sunday night, forcing thousands of people in Lake and Napa counties to flee their homes. The cause of the fire is under investigation. California Governor Jerry Brown Sunday issued an emergency proclamation for Lake and Napa counties due to the...
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Drought becoming new normal for Californians
2015-08-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a new normal. Either humans have mismanaged the states water, or human-triggered global warming has begun to help turn Americas landscape of wine and roses into a dustbowl, according to two new studies. And the arguments have relevance extending far beyond the US west, as the European Drought Observatory has warned that much of mainland Europe is now caught up in the...
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Californians cut water without state imposing fines
2015-08-28 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: For the second straight month, Californians exceeded hefty water conservation mandates during the relentless drought without the state imposing fines, officials said Thursday. Cities cut water use by a combined 31 percent in July, exceeding the governor's statewide conservation mandate of 25 percent, the State Water Resources Control Board reported. The figure surpassed the June figure of 27 percent savings despite hot summer temperatures. The strong figures show California residents are beginning...
More Californians believe in global warming
2015-08-04 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Democrat: More than 60 percent of Californians including a majority in every region of the state, from the inland areas to the coast say global warming is already affecting California, a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California finds. But one group of Californians is much less convinced: Republicans. A majority say they dont believe that climate change is happening and that they dont think it will be a serious problem in the future. They also support expanding fossil fuel production...
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Poll: Californians are more worried about climate change because drought
2015-07-30 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A new poll shows Californians are increasingly freaked out about climate change. The poll also shows that Californians think the state`s historic drought is related to climate change. Pollsters didn`t ask specifically if the drought is spurring climate change concerns, but the implication seems obvious. As a Californian I can say the drought at least makes me feel, on a gut level, that something big is shifting. When I am not darting from shadow to shrinking shadow, or squeezing a few drops of...
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