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Half of Weather Disasters Linked to Climate Change
2015-11-05 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: From a deadly snowstorm in Nepal to a heat wave in Argentina that crashed power supplies, at least 14 extreme weather events last year bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists reported Thursday. Researchers examined 28 weather extremes on all seven continents to see if they were influenced by climate change or were just normal weather. Their conclusion: Half of them showed some role of climate change. "We hope that this will help people see...
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New 40-Nation Survey Reinforces Risks of Climate Change
2015-11-05 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A survey conducted in 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Western world has reinforced the lingering fear that climate change poses a serious challenge to humankind. The results of the survey by the Pew Research Centre were released November 5 three weeks ahead of a key climate change conference scheduled to take place in Paris November 30- December 11. Majorities in all 40 nations polled say climate change is a serious problem and a global median of 54 percent consider it a very...
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14 wild weather events last year influenced by climate change
2015-11-05 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: New scientific analysis shows the fingerprints of man-made climate change on 14 extreme weather events in 2014, hitting every continent but Antarctica. Dozens of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and across the world examined 28 strange weather conditions last year to see if global warming partly increased their likelihood or their strength. In a series of papers in a 180-page, peer-reviewed report, the scientists spotted some effects of climate change in half...
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Bernie Sanders: Climate Change Is A Major Planetary Crisis And The U.S. Must Act Now
2015-11-05 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told reporters Wednesday that President Obama should reject the Keystone XL pipeline before the United Nations` conference on climate change starts at the end of the month. Its imperative that we not just talk the talk but walk the walk, that the United States lead the world in combating climate change, Sanders said. The proposed pipeline would add 1,179 miles to the existing Keystone pipeline system. It would carry crude oil from Canada`s...
Extreme Heat is Defining Climate Change
2015-11-05 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The lasting legacy of climate change will be heat. The land, the oceans, all of it. Its the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience it. All eight papers dealing with extreme heat events in this years Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societys attribution report show a clear climate change signal that made them more likely, more hot or both. In...
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