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Another Reason to Save Sea Otters: They?re Helping Fight Climate Change
2014-08-14 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Takepart: Sea otters arent just unbearably cute; theyre also emerging as key players in keeping the oceans healthy in a warming world, according to new scientific research. Think of sea otters as the park rangers of coastal kelp forests. The floating thickets of treelike seaweed provide habitat for a plethora of marine life, including seals, sea lions, whales, gulls, terns, and snowy egrets. Like terrestrial forests, kelp forests absorb huge quantities of carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released...
Study focuses droughts & climate change in Sierra & beyond
2014-08-14 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reno Gazette-Journal: The lingering drought now affecting Reno-area water supplies could be a sign of things to come, with scientists now studying how the region might respond to future droughts associated with a warming climate. Researchers with University of Nevada, Reno, the Desert Research Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey are embarking on a $3.8 million project designed to examine the expected impacts of climate change, with the idea of developing policy options to deal with droughts of the future. "These...
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Climate change measures 'primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices appease gods'
2014-08-14 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The Abbott government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling. Maurice Newman, who has been vocal in his climate change scepticism, has attacked governments, including the former Labor government, for pursuing "green gesture politics" by introducing carbon price signals in an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned News Corp publication The Australian. He likened...
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How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
2014-08-14 02:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Atlantic: Not long ago, my newspaper informed me that glaciers in the western Antarctic, undermined by the warmer seas of a hotter world, were collapsing, and their disappearance now appears to be unstoppable. The melting of these great ice sheets would make seas rise by at least four feetultimately, possibly 12more than enough to flood cities from New York to Tokyo to Mumbai. Because I am interested in science, I read the two journal articles that had inspired the story. How much time do we have, I wondered,...
Giant Sequoias Under Pressure from Climate Change
2014-08-13 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Giant sequoias, some of the world's oldest and tallest trees, are under pressure from drought, wildfires and climate change, according to scientists with the US Geological Survey. Although sequoias aren't yet in trouble - even with the ongoing drought in California - scientists worry that them and trees alike, such as ancient redwoods and bristlecone pines, will soon be feeling the heat. These types of trees aren't built to withstand decades of dry and warming weather. Their seedlings and saplings...
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