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What Brexit Means for Addressing Climate Change
2016-06-30 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TIME: There may be more questions than answers The future of energy and environmental policy in the United Kingdom and the European Union has been thrown into question following the U.K.`s vote to leave the E.U. last week, despite promises from the current Conservative Party leadership that the country would deliver on commitments. "The UK's role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday," said Amber Rudd, the U.K. Energy and Climate Change secretary,...
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Climate change is making our summers more extreme
2016-06-30 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Scientists have been able to more directly link extreme weather, like the floods that hit Central Europe last month, to climate change. A changed climate could also mean hotter summers - and with that, more deaths. Bye-bye idyllic summers? Climate change is set to make summers full of extreme weather Europe's summer got off to a torrential start this year as severe flooding struck much of the continent. At least 18 people were killed in May 2016 in the heavy downpours and ensuing floods that...
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Are West Virginia's floods the result of climate change? And a congressman gone AWOL
2016-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: For a state that has been racked with recession and unemployment, the flash floods that have ravaged West Virginia dont help much. But the key question to ask no matter how unpleasant is whether the coal sector there shares some of the blame. At issue is the concept of climate change and whether the warmer atmosphere is holding more water and therefore intensifying the storms. To that end, West Virginias prime industry has been coal, a fuel that when burned is responsible for a third of...
Climate change: UK backs world-leading climate target
2016-06-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UK government has set a world-leading climate change target up to the early 2030s. The Fifth Carbon Budget will cut carbon emissions by 57% by 2032 - that's based on 1990 levels. The announcement will help reassure investors needed to overhaul the UK's ageing energy system. But the government's advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has warned the targets will be missed unless policies are improved. Labour's Barry Gardiner urged tougher policies, although he said: "At a time of...
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Impact of climate change on animals in Himalayas
2016-06-30 11:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: While the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has launched a long-term monitoring studies in five Himalayan states including Himachal Pradesh to document the impact of climate change on animal biodiversity, a study conducted by State Centre on Climate Change, Himachal Pradesh, has already found that in Himachal Pradesh a number of diseases occurred in the past ten years. Some diseases among these are worsened by climate change including influenza, cholera, babesiosis, verminous pneumonia, tuberculosis,...
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