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Poor bear brunt of extreme weather
2013-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: An increase in extreme weather events caused by rising temperatures could undermine international attempts, through the United Nations, to alleviate poverty by 2030. The report by the UK's Overseas Development Institute, concludes that 'without concerted action, up to 325 million extremely poor people could be living in the 49 countries most exposed to the full range of natural hazards and climate extremes in 2030.' Drought, extreme rainfall and flooding have a disproportionate effect upon...
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Children will bear brunt of climate change impact, new study says
2013-09-23 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Children will bear the brunt of the impact of climate change because of their increased risk of health problems, malnutrition and migration, according to a new study published on Monday. And food prices are likely to soar as a result of warming, undoing the progress made in combating world hunger. The findings are published as scientists began meeting in Stockholm to produce the most comprehensive assessment yet of our knowledge of climate change. Over the next five days, the Intergovernmental...
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World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank
2013-06-19 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned. Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely to accompany increasing global warming and will cause severe hardship in areas that are already poor or were emerging from poverty, the bank said in a report. Food shortages will be among the first consequences within just two decades, along...
Water Sector Takes the Brunt of Changing Weather
2013-06-12 22:10:03| ENR.com: Headline News
Water utilities and agencies are slowly but surely moving toward developing strategies for dealing with realities of climate change.
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Taxpayers bearing the brunt of climate change costs
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WXXI: The impact and severity of weather events like the tornado that hit Oklahoma City earlier this week are increasing due to a changing global climate, according to research from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). We get more extremes everywhere, so really its climate disruption, the term global warming is not really the best term to use because what were seeing, and what were expecting to see from all the models, is a lot of extreme events. Not per se the number, but the extremity...
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