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Obama: Climate change poses immediate risk to national security
2015-05-20 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Barack Obama had a strong message for graduates of the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut on Wednesday, and all the rest of us too: Global warming is a major security threat. During a commencement address at the academy, he linked changes in the climate to volatility and violence in the Middle East, and warned that global warming to undermine military readiness. He said military forces must adapt and prepare for the kinds of changes we`re already starting to see, but "such preparation...
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Obama: Climate change deniers endangering national security
2015-05-20 20:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama in a speech on Wednesday cast climate change as a growing national security threat, accusing Republican skeptics of harming military readiness by denying its effects. Obama argued in his address to graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that rising sea levels and higher global temperatures endanger military bases and could force personnel to respond to conflicts around the world that are fueled by their effects. Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security,...
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Belvedere proposes name change to Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits
2015-05-20 20:05:44| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Belvédre is set to change its name to Marie Brizard Wine & Spirits.
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Changes in land use pose greater threat to aquatic diversity than climate change
2015-05-20 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: For the first time, scientists at the Senckenberg Research Center for Biodiversity and Climate and the Research Institute Senckenberg in Gelnhausen have modeled the effects of land use changes on the species diversity in rivers and streams. Their results show that the loss of biodiversity is caused to a significantly higher degree by changes in land use practices than by climate change. In consequence, conservation concepts for this valuable ecosystem and the organisms that live in flowing water...
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Put Climate Change on the Agenda for India-Pakistan Relations
2015-05-20 16:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Foreign Policy: In late April, earlier than expected monsoon-type rain caused the deaths of at least 37 people in Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. A similar bout of unseasonably heavy rains ruined a large part of the wheat crop in Indias Punjab, Harayana, and Uttar Pradesh states. These events, while superficially isolated instances of extreme weather, may be harbingers of growing climatic uncertainty throughout South Asia. Unlike the other transnational challenges including terrorism and nuclear proliferation...
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