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New EPA rule: a turning point for climate change?
2014-06-08 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Olympian: Good for President Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency. By proposing that states achieve a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, they've taken an important step toward facing reality. Climate change is real, and its long-term consequences may be devastating. The nations of the world have set a goal of limiting global warming to 3.6 degrees above pre-industrial levels in order to forestall a sea level rise of more than about 3 feet by the end of this...
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Libraries' choice: Change or fade into oblivion
2014-06-08 05:58:56| Wireless - Topix.net
When librarians at the Skokie Public Library near Chicago moved their reference collection online and got rid of the collection of massive print volumes, they realized they had a lot of newly freed-up space.
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Florida Republican leaders balk at climate change
2014-06-07 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Few places in the U.S. are more vulnerable to rising sea levels than low-lying South Florida. It's a tourist and retirement mecca built on drained swampland. Other coastal states and the Obama administration are taking aggressive measures to battle the effects of global warming. But Florida's top Republican politicians are challenging the science and balking at government fixes. Among the state's chief skeptics are U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush both possible presidential candidates...
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6 Ways that Climate Change Threatens Americans' Health
2014-06-07 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Climate change is already affecting Americans' health, aggravating asthma and allergies and killing more people through extreme heat and floods, according to a White House report released Friday. "We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that's not irrevocably polluted or damaged," the report said, adding that in addition to kids, the elderly, those with chronic illnesses, and the poor are also particularly vulnerable to climate change's adverse health affects. In the past...
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Turning up the heat: Manitoba caught climate change crosshairs
2014-06-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Winnipeg Free Press: Ask Danny Blair what really keeps Prairie climate experts such as himself up at night and watch him run through a long list of looming calamities to settle on one. Drought. "If you thought the Dirty Thirties were bad," he said, "get ready for some really long, intense droughts." After a terrible winter and four massive floods in a decade, Manitoba is already starting to get a taste of the extreme weather that's a hallmark of climate change. But in the absence of any global commitment to...
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