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Marin OKs ambitious climate change goals
2015-11-12 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Marin Independent: Ambitious goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions were approved this week by county officials who pledged to meet aggressive targets outlined in a climate change action plan. The county, updating its climate change program, said that by 2020 it intends to cut community greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent below 1990 levels, and those generated by government activities by 15 percent. Planners, noting that an initial goal in 2006 to cut community emissions by 15 percent by 2020 was met within six...
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Climate change: Tackling the Ostrich Syndrome
2015-11-12 02:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Idaho Statesman: You frequently hear people say, We need to wake up to climate change. I think most of us have awakened but have opted to remain in bed rather than take on the most daunting challenge civilization has ever faced. Using another metaphor were we ostriches, we have chosen to keep our heads in the sand. If you went to the Flicks on a Tuesday night a few weeks ago to see Naomi Kleins book- inspired documentary, This Changes Everything you had to have been moved by the message, which was, for me,...
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How Fickle Car Shoppers Change their Minds about the Right Car
2015-11-12 01:17:14| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
How online research and data are being used to get people into the right vehicles, according to the vice president of strategic insights at Kbb.com. The Article How Fickle Car Shoppers Change their Minds about the Right Car appeared first on Automotive Digest.
Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers
2015-11-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: You wouldn`t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth`s climate is changing -- and this is affecting one of the world`s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya. For Joseph Mwangi and his wife, picking tea early in the morning has become more difficult lately. "We have been experiencing frost on the leaves," Mwangi says. "This makes it hard to work, because the frost stings our hands," he added. Mwangi and his wife Alice Muthoni earn their living as tea-pickers...
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Idea of slow climate change in Earth's past misleading
2015-11-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In order to predict how today's ecosystems will react to increasing temperatures over the course of global warming, palaeobiologists study how climate change happened in Earth's history and what the consequences were. In order to compare the events of the past with current changes researchers need data on the scope of the changes. What was the speed with which temperatures increased or decreased? What was the magnitude of the change in temperatures? Until now, the general consensus has been that...
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