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Climate Change Kills the Mood: Economists Warn of Less Sex on a Warmer Planet
2015-11-02 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate change has been blamed for many things over the years. Never, until now, has anyone thought it was possible to see it as a kind of contraceptive. Hot weather leads to diminished coital frequency," according to a new working paper put out by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Three economists studied 80 years of U.S. fertility and temperature data and found that when its hotter than 80 degrees F, a large decline in births follows within 10 months. Would-be parents tend not to make...
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What 1500 Bug Species on a Rooftop Tell Us About Climate Change
2015-11-02 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Scientists often point to the large-scale effects of climate change as evidence of the phenomenon. Antartica is melting, cities are flooding and temperatures in some parts of the world may top 170F, climate scientists say. But a look at seemingly subtle changes in the world around us can be just as illuminating. New research, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shows how climate change has affected more than 1,500 insect species collected from a single rooftop in Denmark over 18 years....
Why Climate Change Should be a Conservative Issue
2015-11-02 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The word "conservative" means something different today from what it used to. Conservatives have traditionally understood the importance of stability--and the dangers of disrupting the established order. They considered it a responsibility to preserve their heritage and pass it down intact to the next generation. Conservatives have been the guardians of tradition because they saw that what our forebears created is a great achievement, built with difficulty over time. They understood that it is...
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India Drought 2015: Climate Change Biggest Threat India Economy, Modi Finance Aide Says
2015-11-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Times: Climate change is threatening to derail Indias fast-growing economy, a top aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week. Erratic monsoon rain patterns have left crops parched, jeopardizing Indias nearly $370 billion agricultural sector and hundreds of millions of jobs. The No. 1 risk we face is global climate change, because we are still very dependent on the monsoon, Jayant Sinha, the countrys junior finance minister and a Harvard Business School graduate, told Bloomberg News. The...
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Pacific Leaders Get Blunt About Unfolding Calamity of Climate Change
2015-11-02 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At a summit in Fiji last week, the last major gathering of Pacific island nations before crunch UN climate talks in Paris next month, islanders thrashed out their collective plea to the world to help address the health impacts of climate change, particularly upon women, infants and adolescents. Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Fijis foreign minister, said the country was dealing with the re-emergence of climate-influenced diseases such as typhoid, dengue fever, leptospirosis and diarrhoeal illnesses. Last...
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