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Russia: Methane Blow-Holes Sign of Runaway Climate Change?
2014-08-02 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Scientists think this mysterious crater may be a giant methane blow-hole that signals the beginning of runaway climate change. They are calling the point when frozen arctic methane in Canada, Alaska and Russia starts erupting into the atmosphere dragon burps. Check out this story that contains graphs showing such elevated methane levels that they labeled them WTF. If you have ever wondered whether you might see the end of the world as we know it in your life time, you probably should NOT...
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MIT study links climate change, air pollution and decreasing food supplies
2014-08-02 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: MIT research published in the journal Nature Climate Change warns that rising temperatures and air pollution will combine to have negative effect on crop yield, placing pressure on the food system. Several separate pieces of research of linked falling crop yields with climate change. Research from Stanford University suggests that climate change makes it 20 times more likely for corn and wheat crop production to decrease, whilst a study from the University of Leeds found climate change could have...
Climate change will leave wine-drinkers drunker and poorer
2014-08-02 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: On Jul. 17, Australia scrapped its carbon tax--hardly a surprising move given that the country`s prime minister, Tony Abbott, once called evidence of climate change "absolute crap." Australia`s winemakers, however, don`t seem to agree with Abbott. Several leading wineries are investing in Tasmania, a cooler island state 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of continental Australia. Wine production there is now growing nearly 10% a year, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, while production...
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Game Change: Grain prices falling
2014-08-02 01:56:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Corn prices, as measured by the national average corn price received by farmers, are sinking below the $4/bu. mark for the first time since summer, 2010. By harvest, cash corn prices could be $3.50/bu. or less. Old-crop soybean prices have stubbornly held their ground much better than corn, but new crop prices of $10/bu. or less are a real possibility by harvest. Like corn, we need to go back to 2010 to find sub-$10 soybeans. read more
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On climate change, Democrats appeal GOP fiscal conservatism
2014-08-01 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: With near unanimous Republican opposition to any action on climate change, a new memo by Washington Sen. Patty Murray reveals one way Democrats could change conservative minds: appeal to their wallets. This is not just an environmental issue, the Democratic senator and budget committee chairman argues in the memo, obtained by msnbc after it was sent to the Senate`s Democratic caucus. Climate change will also have serious ramifications for our economy and the federal budget, and failure to confront...
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