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US Climate report: Time is now for Canada to take action on climate change
2014-05-10 15:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Network: A new climate assessment report released this week gives a detailed and honest look at the present and future climate change for the United States. However, Canadians should sit up and take notice of this report and its contents, as they will apply equally to us as well. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Climate change is something that's often seen as a future concern - that it isn't happening right now, but we definitely have to plan for its effects in the years to come. However, according to the latest...
The GOP does the climate change dance
2014-05-10 14:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Last week, the White House issued a new and alarming edition of its national report on climate change. How did leading Republicans respond? Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP's leader in the Senate, scoffed at President Obama for "talking about the weather," dismissing the issue as a hobbyhorse of "liberal elites who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets." After pointing out that the president is "not a meteorologist," Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)...
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Brothers Work Different Angles in Taking On Climate Change
2014-05-10 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the New Mexico of the 1950s, the two brothers grew up steeped in the beauty of the landscape, the economics of energy and the power of science. They skied, fly-fished, explored on the familys 50,000-acre sheep ranch, watched oil towns go boom and bust, and talked of the nuclear weapons up the road at Los Alamos. Today the work of Robert and William Nordhaus is profoundly shaping how the United States and other nations take on global warming. Bill Nordhaus, 72, a Yale economist who is seen...
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Drier, Hotter, More Extreme Weather: How Climate Change is Already Affecting Oklahoma
2014-05-10 09:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A new federal report bluntly warns that every region of the United States is already observing climate change-related affects to the environment and economy. In Oklahoma and other Great Plains states, climate change from carbon emissions is changing crop growth cycles, increasing energy and water demand, altering rainfall patterns and leading to more frequent extreme weather and climate events, the report concludes. The magnitude of those changes is expected to increase throughout Oklahoma`s region,...
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Climate change is no hoax
2014-05-10 08:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Post Courier: Some of the Obama administration's critics reasonably suspect that it was aiming to please deep-pocket donors by releasing an ominous new National Climate Assessment on Tuesday. But before dismissing the exhaustive report on that basis, keep in mind that it's the product of wide-ranging research by 240 reputable scientists. Keep in mind, too, that over the last two decades this expert consensus has emerged: The massive rise in man-made carbon emissions over the last century has significantly...
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