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OSU researchers warn climate change will impact Eugene's drinking water
2013-07-28 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Register-Guard: The average temperature on Earth could increase by 3.6 degrees by the middle of this century, according to data from climate change researchers in nearly 20 countries. And that increase is enough to potentially affect the main source of Eugene-Springfield's drinking water, according to a study by Oregon State University scientists. The McKenzie River is the major source of drinking water in the Eugene-Springfeld area. The single-digit increase in temperatures predicted worldwide means the snowpacks...
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UK failing to protect the Arctic from drilling, warn MPs
2013-07-27 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The coalition government is failing to protect the Arctic from drilling for oil and gas, by allowing new projects to go ahead with too little scrutiny of their potential risks, the UK's parliamentary green watchdog has warned. The MPs urged a moratorium on Arctic drilling, which the coalition has so far rejected, and called on David Cameron to revisit the Arctic, where early in his leadership of the opposition he famously was photographed with huskie dogs. MPs on the influential environmental audit...
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Flooding in winter to get worse, scientists warn
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Scientists have found that an atmospheric event behind the heavy flooding in Cornwall last year and in Cumbria in 2009 is to grow more intense and more frequent over the next century. The researchers found that narrow bands of air packed with water vapour known as atmospheric rivers are responsible for the worst flooding events in the winter months. These flows of moisture, which form in areas of low pressure and deliver sustained, heavy rainfall to the UK, are due to double in number, according...
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Cost of Arctic methane release could be 'size of global economy', experts warn
2013-07-24 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers have warned of an "economic time-bomb" in the Arctic, following a ground-breaking analysis of the likely cost of methane emissions in the region. Economic modelling shows that the methane emissions caused by shrinking sea ice from just one area of the Arctic could come with a global price tag of 60 trillion dollars -- the size of the world economy in 2012. Writing in a Comment piece in the journal, Nature, academics argue that a significant release of methane from thawing permafrost...
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United Kingdom: Farmers warn of fire risk to crops as heat goes on
2013-07-20 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Crops and heathland across Britain now face the threat of devastating fires as Britain continues to swelter in record-breaking heat. Farmers have urged travellers to take considerable care not to trigger blazes through carelessness over the next few days. The Met Office said yesterday its forecast indicated the hot, sunny weather would continue for much of next week, further drying out woodlands and fields and maintaining conditions that have already triggered mountain blazes in the Welsh valleys...
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