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In Zika Epidemic, Warning Climate Change
2016-02-21 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes. Can that be a coincidence? Scientists say it will take them years to figure that out, and pointed to other factors that may have played a larger role in starting the crisis. But these same experts added that the Zika epidemic, as well as the related spread of a disease called dengue that is sickening...
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Kasich talks of climate change at VT event
2016-02-20 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Burlington Free Press: Republican presidential candidate John Kasich drew hundreds of people to Colchester High School on Saturday morning, and he might have swayed a few Democrats. A key moment came at the end of Kasich's leisurely town hall, when Art Rovner of South Burlington stood to ask the final question. "Given that I'm a scientist, I believe in science, what do you think about the science of climate change?" Rovner asked. "I know that human beings affect the climate," Kasich said. "I know it's an apostasy...
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Carbon tax is best climate change solution
2016-02-20 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Spokesman Review: Washingtonians have a historic opportunity to act on the issue of our time climate change. A groundswell of citizen support has put in front of legislators Initiative 732, a revenue neutral carbon tax that will leave our children and future generations a cleaner, healthier and safer world. It demonstrates what a pro-business and pro-environment approach to climate change can accomplish. But we must work together, and we must act now. This initiative is a great first step toward taking action on...
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Climate change will reduce San Pedro recharge, study says
2016-02-20 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arizona Daily Star: The San Pedro study comes as the Legislature is considering two bills that would either lift, or make it easier for municipalities in Cochise County to lift, requirements that new developments prove they have an adequate water supply for 100 years to start building. As the law now stands, any county can require that all new developments prove an adequate supply. Cochise and Yuma counties are the only ones to have adopted such requirements. Pima County falls under a different state requirement...
Did This Polar Bear Die Because Climate Change?
2016-02-20 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery: Over the past couple of days, a photograph of a dead polar bear has made the viral rounds online, its fame accentuated by a number of different articles which claim the bear in question was "killed by climate change." But is that claim true? The photograph was taken by Sebastian Copeland, and is featured in his book Arctica: The Vanishing North; but the first thing to note is, over-enthusiastic headlines to the contrary, he didn't in fact claim that climate change killed the bear. Rather, he noted...
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