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Climate change seen bringing more fires, less snow to Yellowstone
2015-04-10 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Predicted climate changes bringing warmer and drier conditions to Yellowstone National Park will likely fuel catastrophic wildfires, cause declines in mountain snows and threaten the survival of animals and plants, scientists said on Thursday. Warming that is expected in the American West over the next few decades would transform lands in and around Yellowstone from a wetter, mostly forested Rocky Mountain ecosystem to a more open landscape akin to the arid U.S. Southwest, the researchers said in...
Climate Change Is a Public Health Issue
2015-04-09 23:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It's National Public Health Week, an important time to connect the dots between human health and climate change. Earlier this week, nearly 1,000 doctors, nurses, researchers and other health professionals from 49 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia did just that, calling for bold action on climate in a letter delivered to President Obama. "The risks climate change poses to public health have been well-documented," they wrote. The letter, which we joined Physicians for Social Responsibility...
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Why some Wisconsin state employees are barred mentioning 'climate change'
2015-04-09 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In George Orwell's classic novel, "1984," one of the plot lines is the continuous development of a fictional language called "Newspeak." The crafting of the language is an effort by the dictatorial government to ensure there would be no way to verbalize one's dissenting political thoughts because the vocabulary to do so would not exist. In Wisconsin and Florida, state legislators have employed a politically-motivated gagging of their own; the restriction of state employees who cannot discuss "climate...
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Wisconsin also stifles 'climate change' talk
2015-04-09 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) recently generated national headlines after officials at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection claimed they were ordered not to use the terms climate change or global warming in any official communications. As is turns out, Florida isnt the only state hoping to narrow the scope of the climate discourse. Discussing climate change is out of bounds for workers at a state agency in Wisconsin. So is any work related to climate change even responding...
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GM to stop making Chevy Volts for 4 weeks in summer due to slow sales and change to new model
2015-04-09 18:02:18| Automakers - Topix.net
General Motors will stop producing the Chevrolet Volt for four weeks in June and July due to slow sales and to deal with the change to an all-new version of the gas-electric hybrid. The company says the Detroit-area plant that makes the Volt and four other cars will probably stay open through the summer despite plans for the Volt.
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