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Hawaii: Gov. signs climate change bill
2014-06-10 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KITV: Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed on Monday House Bill 1714 (Act 83), a measure that establishes an interagency climate adaptation committee under the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop a sea-level rise vulnerability and adaptation report addressing statewide impacts to 2050. Related Scientists say Hawaii's climate... Global warming will stress Hawaii's... Bevy of significant, less publicized... DLNR begins forest protection project... Hawaii lawmakers debate bills ahead... Act...
Featured Poll: Climate Change - Threat or Opportunity?
2014-06-09 23:20:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Although not all agree, theres some evidence that maximum wind speeds of the strongest hurricanes have increased significantly over the last several decades. read more
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Earlier Springs, Later Autumns Sprout from Climate Change
2014-06-09 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Every year, as temperatures warm and the winter snows melt away, forests on the East Coast become a sea of green, just to morph into a display of reds, oranges and greens the following autumn. Over the last two decades, this cycle has gone slightly askew, as a result of climate change, cultivating earlier springs and later autumns. Using a combination of satellite imagery, tower-mounted instruments and on-the-ground observations, researchers found that forests throughout the eastern United States...
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Canada, Australia PM say economy trumps climate change
2014-06-09 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Canada and Australia's conservative prime ministers said Monday economic concerns trump climate action, with Ottawa's Stephen Harper insisting any nation claiming otherwise is lying. Both leaders have faced increased criticism over their climate policies after US President Barack Obama last week unveiled the first major regulations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States. "It's not that we don't seek to deal with climate change, but we seek to deal with it in a way that will protect...
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Oregon Wild Calls Northwest Forestland Preservation and Climate Change Mitigation
2014-06-09 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: As a week old Oregonian, I received an unprecedented and gracious orientation of sorts--a call of the wild" from the Pacific Northwest, if you will. I was invited to attend the Wilderness Conference hosted by Oregon Wild. Oregon Wild (formerly the Oregon Natural Resources Council or ONRC) hosted an event, celebrating just over 40 years as a conservation advocacy organization that has helped safeguard nearly 2 million acres of wildland in the state. The conference in downtown Portland catered...
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