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The Politics of Climate Change
2016-01-16 21:23:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Has the climate change debate become a purely political one? read more
How Melting Giant Icebergs May Help Slow Climate Change (Just A Little)
2016-01-16 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Melting icebergs may be fighting against the very forces that cause them to melt, a new study suggests. Water dripping off icebergs and into the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, contains iron and other nutrients, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. These nutrients fertilize phytoplankton, the microscopic marine life that plays a key role in oceanic ecosystems, and help the tiny plants absorb carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as they grow into...
Cancer and Climate Change
2016-01-16 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I've spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which is best viewed through a multidecadal lens. At some level I was sure that, even at my present age of 60, I would live to see the most critical part of the problem, and its possible solutions, play out in my lifetime. Now that my personal horizon has been steeply foreshortened, I was forced to decide how to spend my remaining time. Was continuing to think about...
Giant Calving Icebergs May Slow Pace of Climate Change
2016-01-16 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: British scientists have identified the monsters that fertilise the Southern [or Antarctic] Ocean and help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Giant icebergs drifting northwards could be responsible for storing up to a fifth of all the carbon that sinks into the south polar waters. Geographers at the University of Sheffield report in Nature Geoscience journal that they analysed 175 satellite images of ocean colour-an indicator of phytoplankton activity. They learned that each huge...
Poison warmed over: Climate change may hurt animals' ability to live on toxic plants
2016-01-16 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote - suggesting that global warming may hurt plant-eating animals. "This study adds to our understanding of how climate change may affect mammals, in that their ability to consume dietary toxins is impaired by warmer temperatures," says biologist Denise Dearing, senior author of the research published online Jan. 13 in the British journal Proceedings...
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