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Obama Administration Releases Major Climate Change Report
2014-05-06 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: The Obama administration released a wide-ranging climate change report on Tuesday, laying out exactly what impact the changing climate is having on the U.S., and what could happen if it isn`t addressed The third National Climate Assessment (NCA), a kind of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report focused on the U.S., is the product of years of work by over two hundred climate scientists. A review draft was released last year, but the report has now been signed off by the federal National...
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Climate change major threat to biodiversity, study says
2014-05-02 11:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: New research has suggested that climate change effects on the environment would be so complex and varied that different regions would be threatened in different ways. Scientists have said that the level of complexity of this phenomenon is unprecedented in natural sciences. The team of researchers used 15 climate change models to assess how species would react in various regions of the planet to the consequences of climatic variations, such as changes in temperature and precipitation. They found...
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IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down
2014-04-13 22:30:12| Green Car Congress
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Climate change report highlight major impacts
2014-03-31 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The impact of climate change is being felt across all continents and oceans and it is affecting food security, glaciers and the spread of disease, according to a new report. Scientists and officials meeting in Japan say the document is the most comprehensive assessment to date of the impacts of climate change on the world. Matt McGrath reports from Yokohama in Japan.
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Climate change could wipe out wildlife and is major risk to UK forests
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change poses a major risk to forests all over the world, threatening widespread tree deaths that could wipe out wildlife, exacerbate global warming and hurt the economy, a major new UN report will warn today. According to a leaked final draft of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, tree mortality and associated forest dieback will become apparent in many regions sooner than previously anticipated. Forest dieback is a major environmental risk with potentially...