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New Climate Change and Global Warming Records Unprecedented
2016-06-20 06:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate scientists are stunned at the latest findings that suggest the previous month May was the 13th month in a row to break previously held temperature records. Apart from the soaring heat recorded in February and March, alarm bells are ringing continuously in the form of extreme weather events, ranging from vanishing Arctic sea ice, droughts in India, the vast bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and flash floods in the UK and in Paris. "It is in my view highly unlikely that we would be...
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What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?
2016-06-16 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: How ambitious is the world? The Paris climate conference last December astounded many by pledging not just to keep warming well below two degrees Celsius, but also to "pursue efforts" to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C. That raised a hugely important question: What's the difference between a two-degree world and a 1.5-degree world? Given we are already at one degree above pre-industrial levels, halting at 1.5 would look to be at least twice as hard as the two-degree option. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty...
Fort Mac fire sparked little media talk of global warming
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Tyee: An ash-covered bicycle stands amid the rubble of a wildfire-destroyed neighbourhood in Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. Fort Mac Blaze: Brace for New Era of Infernos What's turning northern forests into tinder? Biggest reason is climate change, but thats not all. Fleeing Fort McMurray... for Good? Locals speak with pride about 'resilience' -- tested now like never before. Fort McMurray's Fire Teaches Us a Lesson Hope that your city reacts like this...
Flooding costs will soar in a warming world, economic analysts say
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Texas Climate News: In 2005, costs from flood damage in Texas were estimated in the vicinity of $3 billion. Houstons devastating Memorial Day flooding last year brought costs estimated above $45 million. Now, a punishing series of major flood events this year have Texans, particularly in and around Houston, increasingly discussing with renewed interest some questions that have floated around for years. Questions, for instance, about restricting development in flood prone areas, about slowing (and maybe reversing)...
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At ground zero of warming, Greenland seeks to unlock frozen assets
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: On top of the world, by a fjord in western Greenland, a remote hydro power plant is buzzing with extra water from the melt of ancient glaciers. This island at ground zero of global warming is seeking to be one of the few places on Earth to benefit. Outside the Buksefjord plant, the biggest of five hydro-electricity stations built in Greenland since 1993 in a push to move away from imported oil, cod that usually only thrive further south can be seen swimming in the clear water. And a worker...
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