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Vatican newspaper op-ed: address climate change now before it is too late
2016-08-08 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Catholic Culture: In a front-page column in the August 7 edition of the Vatican newspaper, Italian philosopher Luca Possati said that climate change must be addressed now before it is too late. Citing a report released on August 2 by the National Centers for Environmental Information, Possati noted that the year 2015 was the warmest since climate recordkeeping began in the nineteenth century. Recalling that the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change contains no sanctions, Possati called for a new globalized approach...
Climate Column: Why Do Farmers Care About Climate Change? Drought
2016-08-08 14:08:37| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education Crops wont grow without rain, and livestock producers remember the enormous problems experienced with the severe drought in 2012. Drought is frightening for farmers and expensive for consumers. USDAs Southern Plains Assessment of Vulnerability and Preliminary Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Farmers, Ranchers and Forest Land […]
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Rejection of experts spreads from Brexit to climate change with 'Clexit'
2016-08-08 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Brexit support and climate denial have many similarities. Many Brexit Leave campaign leaders also deny the dangers of human-caused climate change. Older generations were more likely to vote for the UK to leave the EU and are more likely to oppose taking action on climate change; younger generations disagree, and will be forced to live with the consequences of those decisions. On both issues theres also a dangerous strain of anti-intellectualism, in which campaigners mock experts and dismiss their...
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Climate change has made a mammal extinct, great job humanity
2016-08-08 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: For the first time ever, human-driven climate change has caused the extinction of a mammal. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, lived only in the Great Barrier Reef but has been wiped out by rising sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Delta Air Lines grounds ALL flights after massive system outage The long-tailed, whiskered creature lived only on Bramble Cay, a tiny island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was thought to be the only mammal native to the Great Barrier...
Carbon Markets See Positive Signal In New US Climate Guidance, But No Game Change
2016-08-08 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Earlier this week, the US Executive Office issued final guidance instructing all federal agencies to fully consider global warming and its impacts when making decisions and implementing activities. The guidances clear mention of land-based mitigation measures leads some practitioners to see market opportunity. Every federal agency of the US government must soon begin quantifying the impact of its activities both direct and indirect on the climate under new guidance that the administration...
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