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NASA on the trail of climate change, watches African rainforest turn brown
2014-04-23 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
VentureBeat: It will be a profound irony if NASA`s lasting value will be to document from space the planet`s decline. Case in point: The agency released today a scientific visualization video showing the transition of the entire African rainforest in the Congo from green to a drought-stricken brown. The visualization is based on data from NASA satellites, and the related study is published today in the scientific journal Nature. The rainforest is the second largest in the world, after the Amazon. "It`s...
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Rand Paul bashes 'alarmist,' 'ignoramus' climate change claims
2014-04-23 18:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says in a new interview that people who cite recent hurricanes as proof of climate change are ignorant. Paul was speaking Tuesday with former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. He said evidence of man-made climate change being a problem remains inconclusive and that many activists are "alarmist." "They all predicted the poor Statue of Liberty was going to drown within a hundred years, and the polar bears and all this...
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Want to stop climate change? Take the fossil fuel industry to court
2014-04-23 15:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nation: In November 2013, American climate scientist Richard Heede, of the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute, published a paper with a revolutionary thesis. After nine years of researching the energy industry in dozens of countries, he concluded that nearly two-thirds of the world's carbon dioxide and methane emissions dating back to the dawn of the industrial era were the responsibility of just ninety companies. Heede called them the "carbon majors.' Not surprisingly, the biggest players...
US: Perplexing lack of action to change import scheme
2014-04-23 15:20:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Changes are urgently needed to an "ineffective" US import programme designed to boost the apparel industry in the Dominican Republic, according to the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA).
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Climate Change Likely to Make Everest Even Riskier
2014-04-23 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Climbing to the roof of the world is becoming less predictable and possibly more dangerous, scientists say, as climate change brings warmer temperatures that may eat through the ice and snow on Mount Everest. Nepal was left reeling when a sudden ice avalanche slammed down onto a group of Sherpa guides on Friday and killed 16 in the deadliest single disaster on Everest. While it is impossible to link any single event to long-term changes in the global climate, scientists say the future will likely...
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