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Babbling brooks adding to climate change?
2014-05-25 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Methane bubbles rising to the surface of fresh water. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Wisconsin-Madison [Click to enlarge image] Studying stream bubbles isn't exactly a walk in the park. What, with the mud and ticks, the long days hiking and swimming through mucky streams, the sun exposure and scratching brush. But in the end, it may prove to be insightful. The bubbles coming from freshwater sources, new research suggests, may be a key and currently unaccounted for source of methane,...
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Tough emissions cuts would prove US is serious about climate change
2014-05-25 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency will soon unveil its most anticipated new rules in a generation, the shape of which will help determine how well the United States responds to the threat of climate change. There will be fierce debate about them before they become final. Critics will try to undermine the effort by insisting that the rules be weak, poorly designed and unnecessarily expensive. Instead, the EPA should make them ambitious, fair and flexible. Congress failed to pass a comprehensive...
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Super PAC to use climate change issue against Gov. Rick Scott
2014-05-24 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tampa Bay Times: A California billionaire is going after millionaire Gov. Rick Scott over climate change, hoping to rally passive voters as Scott seeks re-election in November. Tom Steyer's Super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, says Florida is among the states in which it will spend up to $100 million in 2014 to make climate change a "wedge issue" among voters who may otherwise stay home "NextGen Climate and our partners will mobilize low-propensity Hispanic voters by nano-targeting in South Florida and the I-4 Corridor,"...
WB urges countries to see climate change as economic issue
2014-05-24 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GMA News: Participants at the World Economic Forum on East Asia on Friday urged countries, especially those in Asia, to adopt a holistic approach in dealing with the effects of climate change. "What we are desperate to do is to bring the climate conversation out of the ministry of environment exclusively and put it right on the table of the ministry of finance, planning, budget,' said World Bank vice-president and special envoy on climate change, Rachel Kyte, in a report on GMA News' "24 Oras." Kyte...
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World Bank: Climate change cost Philippines $18.6 B
2014-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philippine Star: Economic damage and other losses amounted to at least $18.6 billion or P799 billion, while around 10,000 people who were killed due to Typhoons Yolanda, Ondoy, Pepeng and Sendong, according to the World Bank (WB). Climate change is one of the greatest threats to economic growth, not to mentions lives, Rachel Kyte, WB vice president, said in a press briefing yesterday. Kyte represented the WB at the recently concluded World Economic Forum (WEF), which was attended by representatives of various...
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