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'No right to fail' on climate change, warns France's Fabius
2015-05-18 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: France's foreign minister warned Monday that the international community had no option but to combat climate change as there is "no alternative planet". "We don't have the right to fail," Laurent Fabius told the opening of a two-day gathering in Berlin of representatives from 35 countries to pave the way for a global push to cut emissions. "We must commit ourselves very resolutely because there isn't an alternative solution, for the simple reason that there isn't an alternative planet," he...
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Climate change altering frequency, intensity of hurricanes
2015-05-18 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change may be the driving force behind fewer, yet more powerful hurricanes and tropical storms, says a Florida State geography professor. In a paper published today by Nature Climate Change, Professor Jim Elsner and his former graduate student Namyoung Kang found that rising ocean temperatures are having an effect on how many tropical storms and hurricanes develop each year. "We're seeing fewer hurricanes, but the ones we do see are more intense," Elsner said. "When one comes, all hell...
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Climate Change May Put Power Grid at Risk in the West
2015-05-18 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The ravages of climate change could severely hurt the ability of utilities in the 11 Western states to generate power unless they climate proof their power grid using renewables and energy efficiency, something they are not prepared for, according to a new study. For nearly half of the Wests existing power plants, climate change could reduce their ability to produce electricity by up to 3 percent during an average summer and possibly up to nearly 9 percent during a decade-long drought, according...
Shell knows climate change is real, but it wants to drill Arctic anyway
2015-05-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A man of Ben van Beurdens power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers. When the chief executive of Shell rose to address an industry gathering in a London hotel, a respectful hush descended. Van Beurden, 57, rose from a modest background in the Netherlands to the top of a cut-throat, politically fraught sector that rarely finds itself out of the public firing line. The annual black-tie dinner at International Petroleum Week in February,...
Climate Change And Food Security: Coffee Farmers In Tanzania
2015-05-18 20:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Hundreds of farmers in Tanzania are abandoning crops of coffee and cotton due to changes in the local climate. Instead, theyre planting more lucrative vegetables and flowers as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes less predictable. Coffee beans are no longer as profitable, as my harvests keep on falling, Ludovick Meela, a farmer from Tanzanias northern Kilimanjaro region, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news organization. I need fast-growing crops...
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