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New Satellite Collects Sea Level Data to Monitor Climate Change
2016-01-31 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Voice of America: Scientists from the U.S. and Europe have a new eye in the sky monitoring the world's oceans.The Jason-3 satellite, launched on January 17, is the latest satellite to monitor rising sea levels. Scientists say data collected by satellites over the last two decades shows sea levels rising at an accelerating rate, which they say is an indicator of climate change. Josh Willis, Lead Project Scientist for the Jason-3 mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said rising sea levels were one of the factors...
Climate change beliefs must not be allowed to trump science
2016-01-31 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LancasterOnline: A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point. So said Stanford University psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s. Pre-existing beliefs can slant our thinking and taint what we believe to be our most impartial and logical conclusions. This is called motivational reasoning. It helps to explain why we find folks so opposed over matters in...
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Climate change book offers content to interest kids
2016-01-31 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Roanoke Times: Climate Change: A Hot Topic! By Dan Green. Created by Simon Basher. Kingfisher, 2014. Reviewed by Carolyn J. Kroehler. She lives in Blacksburg and is interested in how science is communicated to non-science audiences. I've heard good things about Basher Science books for kids, so I was curious when I saw a Basher book titled "Climate Change: A Hot Topic!" Climate change for kids? I wanted to see how it was handled. "Making science come alive in amazing and colorful ways!" trumpets a promotional...
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Africa Called to Implement Climate Change Agreement
2016-01-31 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
allAfrica: The Chairperson of the Africa Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has called on all African states to move swiftly, so that the agreement on climate change can come into effect to unlock the wealth of nations and save the planet. Speaking at the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and of the African Union (AU) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dlamini-Zuma noted that in the climate change negotiations last year, Africa showed that it was not indifferent to its responsibility...
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Scientists find some clues to climate change in plants
2016-01-31 09:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bend Bulletin: The National Parks Service is partnering with citizen scientists to track when plant species flower, leaf out or set seed. The way plants grow gives clues to changes in the environment and the impact of climate change. Plants, as we know, have the most sensitive biological responses to climate change, said Nancy Fernandez, a climate change intern with Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. They are sensitive to temperature change and precipitation. Fernandez discussed plant responses to...
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