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Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky
2016-09-18 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthout: How serious of an issue is climate change? Does global warming really threaten human civilization? Can it be reversed, or is it already late? In this exclusive interview for Truthout, two scholars, Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading public intellectuals, and Graciela Chichilnisky, a renowned economist and climate change authority who wrote and designed the carbon market of the Kyoto Protocol, concur on a few key points. First of all, global warming and climate change constitute the greatest...
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Global warming making Calif. wildfire season longer, more severe
2016-09-14 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: As Southern California firefighters battled the Blue Cut Fire last month, there was nothing they could do to fend off an unfortunate reality: Global warming is already lengthening wildfire season and increasing the likelihood of extreme fires across the West. And conditions will only get worse in the coming decades. California just suffered through its hottest summer on record: The Golden State's average temperature from June through August was more than 3 degrees above the 20th century average,...
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Leonardo DiCaprio's global warming doc is the most depressing world tour ever
2016-09-10 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Celebrities are keen on adopting righteous causes, but few are as vocal as Leonardo DiCaprio about his quest to save the planet from ecological collapse. "I am consumed by this," DiCaprio told Rolling Stone in a profile earlier this year. "There isnt a couple of hours a day where Im not thinking about it." With Before the Flood, DiCaprio is asking us to sample his daily two-hour burden. Directed by Fisher Stevens, Before the Flood documents DiCaprio as he jet-sets from Greenland, to Indonesia,...
Global warming disrupts oceans, seen lingering in the depths
2016-09-06 15:05:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming is disrupting ocean life from plankton to whales and the heat may linger in the depths for centuries even if man-made greenhouse gas emissions are halted, an international study said on Monday. Rising temperatures in the seas were also having wider knock-on effects such as by disrupting rainfall patterns over land, spurring extreme weather events and aiding a spread of water-borne diseases, it said. "Ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation,"...
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Warming oceans are 'sick', global scientists warn
2016-09-06 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday (Sep 5). The findings, based on peer-reviewed research, were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, experts said at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. "We all know that the oceans sustain this planet. We all know that the oceans provide...
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