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USDA Climate Head: Global Warming To Bring More 'Miserable Days'
2013-04-12 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News and World Report: The director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Climate Change Program said Wednesday that global warming will cause an increase in the number of "miserable days" over the next several years. William Hohenstein said that the "misery index," a measure of temperature and humidity, will continue to get higher in many parts of the country, especially the southwest. He said the number of days with temperatures above100 degrees will increase. With it, farmers might face increasingly difficult...
NASA Climate Scientist James Hansen Quits to Fight Global Warming
2013-04-02 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Climate scientist James Hansen is retiring from NASA this week to devote himself to the fight against global warming. Hansen's retirement concludes a 46-year career at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, but he plans to use his time to take up legal challenges to the federal and state governments over limiting greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, Hansen, 72, has become an activist for climate change, which didn't sit well with NASA headquarters in Washington. "As a...
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A Different Kind of Climate War: Global Warming and National Security
2013-03-27 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: By now you`ve probably heard about the potential for global climate change to impact the environment, the economy, even the range of vampire bats. But what about national security? That`s exactly what retired Navy Vice Admiral Lee Gunn has been talking about in Texas this week. Gunn served in the U.S. Navy for thirty-five years. He joined the Center for Naval Analysis (now known simply as CNA) after his retirement in 2001. He`s in Texas on behalf of CNA`s Military Advisory Board, a group whose...
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Global business responses to climate change: Where to now?
2013-03-17 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Despite the widespread scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic climate change, ideological rhetoric dominates the global political discourse. This is preventing the development of clear policy frameworks that companies need for long-term investments. In spite of this, there are signs of progress at the international, national and corporate levels. A growing number of countries, or states within them, are instituting measures to price carbon emissions. By the end of 2013 an estimated 850 million...
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Climate heavyweights fire fresh salvos in global CO2 debate
2013-03-15 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The first salvos of the new UN climate regime have been fired by some of the most influential nations ahead of the first talks in earnest on a global emissions deal. After early housekeeping was addressed at the UNFCCCs session in Doha last year, the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, known as the ADP, kicks off next month. Bigger issues, like how to share responsibility fairly, will feature on the agenda throughout 2013. Japan, USA and...
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