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Climate change is darkening Seattles water forecast
2015-09-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Investigate West: One of the countrys fastest-growing cities suddenly has a long-term water problem. The weather was uncharacteristically drizzly for late summer when Seattle Public Utilities tour guide Ralph Naess, tooling along a backroad in the city-protected Cedar River watershed, suddenly looked skyward with alarm at a sudden sunbreak. Hey -- the sun is coming out. Bad news! Naess exclaimed. Turning to visitors, he explained: We would much prefer a dousing rain for a month. Its not unusual for...
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Chair of Australia's Climate Change Authority Resigns
2015-09-09 14:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The chair of the Abbott government's climate change advice agency, Bernie Fraser, has resigned without explanation. It comes less than a month after Mr Fraser issued a strong rebuke to the Abbott government over its justifications of its post-2020 greenhouse emissions targets. A statement issued by the Climate Change Authority late on Tuesday said Mr Fraser, a respected former Reserve Bank governor and Treasury chief, had quit as chair. His term was not due to end until 2017. No further explanation...
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Who Will Pay the Price for Australia's Climate Change Policies?
2015-09-09 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ethiopian Herald: Rowan Foley has spent many years as a ranger and park manager, caring for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Aboriginal lands in the spiritual heart of Australia's Red Centre in the Northern Territory. He has been observing the effects of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events on his people, residing in some of the hottest regions of the country. "There are hotter and more frequent fires. Salt water intrusion is leading to less fresh water. This is impacting on indigenous traditional owners...
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Climate Change Could Put Tribes Electric Systems at Risk
2015-09-08 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Heat waves, extreme storms, wildfire and other effects of climate change pose major threats to the electric power systems in Native American communities across the country, most significantly in the West and Southwest, according to a new U.S. Department of Energy report. "Tribes are among the communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,' Chris Deschene, director of the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, said in a statement. "Tribal lands, which are...
Climate Change will Cost Trillions
2015-09-08 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: The economic ramifications of continuing the 20th centurys economic model, where unsustainable extraction and pollution conveys competitive advantage, are coming into sharp focus. Citigroup now projects a staggering $72 trillion global cost tied to man-made climate change during the 21st century. This is an almost incomprehensible scale of economic damage that is equal to losing four years of the United States entire gross domestic product. The agriculture and food manufacturing industries also...
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