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Global Warming: For Americans, The Pleasant Phase Of Climate Change Will End Soon, Study Says
2016-04-24 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Climate change has meant global warming for most Americans, making them less inclined to see the need for action on the issue, so says a new study by researchers at two U.S. universities. By the time the public feels the sting of climate change later this century, it will be too late to put policies in place that will have any effect. Patrick J. Egan, an associate professor in NYU`s Wilf Family Department of Politics, authored the study with Megan Mullin, an associate professor at Duke University`s...
Five arresting images of climate change impossible to ignore
2016-04-24 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Climate change is the single biggest threat to polar bear survival, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The animals depend on seasonal sea ice, which they use as a platform to hunt seals. Polar bears have been losing weight as Arctic sea ice melts, a recent study out of Canada found. Female polar bears weighed about 10 percent less in 2009 than they did in 1984, scientists found. As retreating sea ice shrinks their habitat, starvation threatens the species. Drought...
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Sheldon Whitehouse: Climate change is like tobacco issue
2016-04-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Providence Journal: There are at least three things wrong with the April 18 editorial ("Climate of freedom") criticizing my position on possible fraud in the fossil fuel industry's climate change denial operation. The Journal insinuates, though does not state, that I am seeking criminal prosecutions, using both the words "prosecution" and "crime" in its editorial. The tobacco lawsuit by the Department of Justice was a civil proceeding, and the Department of Justice won it. The editorial page repeatedly has insinuated...
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Is divesting from fossil fuels best tactic tackling climate change?
2016-04-24 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Its April; your taxes are filed (hopefully); the cherry blossoms are out (hopefully), and Earth Day has rolled around once more. And in what is becoming yet another April ritual, on a growing number of college campuses, students are staging protests demanding that their institutions divest themselves of any holdings in companies involved in fossil fuel exploration or production coal, crude oil or natural gas. Its all in the spirit of Earth Day. It certainly draws attention to the issue, which...
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How climate change could rob Pennsylvania of 2 state symbols
2016-04-24 04:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Call: A branch of a healthy hemlock tree that has not yet been infested by the hemlock wooly adelgid, a voracious insect that is threatening eastern hemlock trees in Pennsylvania. The hemlock in the state's official tree. A branch of a healthy hemlock tree that has not yet been infested by the hemlock wooly adelgid, a voracious insect that is threatening eastern hemlock trees in Pennsylvania. The hemlock in the state's official tree. The warm winter Pennsylvanians enjoyed could be a harbinger of...
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