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World's energy systems vulnerable to climate impacts, report warns
2014-06-18 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rising sea levels, extremes of weather and an increase in the frequency of droughts and floods will all play havoc with the world's energy systems as climate change takes hold, a new report has found. Energy companies are more often cited as part of the problem of climate change, generating the lion's share of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, amounting to around 40% of the total. But they will also suffer as global warming picks up pace, as generators from nuclear reactors to coal-fired...
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'Under water': Bay Area Latinos, minorities most vulnerable to sea rise
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New America Media: Intro: Did you know that as a result of global warming in the last century sea level has risen over 20 centimeters(7 inches)? That process is now accelerating and threatens to cause severe flooding that could affect neighborhoods with high Latino populations here in the Bay Area, as Pilar Nino reports in her special series "Under Water.' This is the first of a two-part series. To read Part 2, click here. Pilar Nino:There's no doubt that our proximity to the ocean is one of the major attractions...
Popular HTTPS sites still vulnerable to OpenSSL connection hijacking attack
2014-06-16 18:10:26| InfoWorld: Top News
Some of the Internet's most visited websites that encrypt data with the SSL protocol are still susceptible to a recently announced vulnerability that could allow attackers to intercept and decrypt connections.
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Climate Change: Countries that Contributed Less are Most Vulnerable
2014-06-13 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: While most of the dangerous gases that had built up in the atmosphere over the years may have come from countries in the Earth's northern hemisphere, it is the countries however in the south that will bear the impact of the planet's global warming and climate change, a report released by ratings agency Standard & Poor's said. In a list that included 116 countries, the report disclosed the nations most vulnerable to suffer from climate change were Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh in the top three....
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Cambodia most vulnerable climate change: study
2014-06-12 04:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phnom Penh Post: US credit ratings agency Standard & Poors has ranked Cambodias economy and creditworthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Of 116 nations measured by S&P as part of a vulnerability index published last month with a number 1 ranking being the least vulnerable Cambodia scored the lowest, coming in at 116th. The index took into account the share of Cambodias population living in areas below five metres of altitude, the percentage that agriculture contributes to...
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