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Waste of resources is biggest threat to planet, warns Scottish environment agency
2016-08-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scotlands environment agency has warned the countrys industries and farmers that their waste and inefficiency is now the biggest threat to the environment, overtaking pollution. In a marked shift in strategy, the regulators chief executive, Terry AHearn, will urge businesses, farmers and manufacturers to adopt a one planet prosperity policy designed to cut their energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste and resource use. The major threat to the environment now is that humanity is overusing...
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Humans are greening the planet, but the implications are complicated
2016-07-15 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Earths climate is changing in fact, it always changes. But in the current context of human influence, scientists try to decipher how much of the change is natural compared to human-induced. One clear way humans influence the Earth is through the biosystem. For instance, farming changes the biosystem. By removing natural growth and planting annual crops that are harvested, we change the system in a way that could in turn affect other parts of the Earth system. In addition, the use of nitrogen...
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Apple Trying Out Reality TV With 'Planet of the Apps'
2016-07-14 03:03:33| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Do you love reality TV and making apps? Apple has just the thing.
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Paris climate summit put planet on 'catastrophic' warming despite seen as success
2016-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The pledges made by countries at the historic Paris agreement on climate change would lead to completely catastrophic global warming, scientists have warned. In a major analysis of 10 different studies into the effect of what world leaders promised to do, researchers calculated that the planet was still on course for a temperature increase of 2.6C to 3.1C by the end of this century. Their finding was in sharp contrast to the landmark declaration in Paris in November last year that action...
Climate Change Denial Threatens Our Planet and is Driving Us Crazy
2016-06-18 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Blogs: The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy is a great new book by climate scientist Michael Mann and cartoonist Tom Toles. This book serves many purposes. It includes an overview of the basic science of climate change and human caused global warming. It has a compendium of many of the key science deniers, and a description of the well known taxonomy of science denial ("It`s Not Happening!", "OK, It`s Happening but It`s...
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