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Climate Change Researcher Offers a Defense of His Practices
2015-03-03 10:05:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The scientist at the center of a controversy over fossil-fuel funding for climate research denounced his critics on Monday and said that he would be happy to comply with possible additional disclosure requirements from scientific journals publishing his papers. In his first detailed public statement since the controversy erupted more than a week ago, the scientist, Wei-Hock Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, complained that he had been the subject of unfair...
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New Study Says Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian Civil War
2015-03-03 01:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: By now, it's pretty clear that we're starting to see visible manifestations of climate change beyond far-off melting ice sheets. One of the most terrifying implications is the increasingly real threat of wars sparked in part by global warming. New evidence says that Syria may be one of the first such conflicts. We know the basic story in Syria by now: From 2006-2010, an unprecedented drought forced the country from a groundwater-intensive breadbasket of the region to a net food importer. Farmers...
Norway Can Lead Fighting Climate Change
2015-03-03 00:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Early this year, Norway put its toe in the global movement to drop investments in fossil fuel companies. Its sovereign wealth fund (the Fund), at $850 billion the world's largest, divested from 14 coal mining companies, five tar-sands oil producers and a few other companies heavily involved with fossil fuel. Late last year, an Expert Group appointed by Norway's Finance Ministry released a 71 page report addressing whether the Fund, as a responsible investor sensitive to the global threat of climate...
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Climate Change Caused the War in Syria?
2015-03-03 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wars are usually caused by struggles for land or power, but one new study is blaming climate change, at least in part, for the start of the Syrian war. A nationwide drought, the worst Syria has ever seen, ravaged the region from 2006-2010, destroying the agricultural industry and driving farmers to poverty-stricken cities. Coincidentally, in spring 2011, unrest escalated into a full-blown Syrian war that has since killed at least 200,000 people and displaced millions. "We're not saying the...
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Science proves GOP wrong climate change &national security
2015-03-02 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: At last week`s Conservative Political Action Conference, GOP chair Reince Priebus had some strong words about how President Barack Obama prioritizes threats to national security. "Democrats tell us they understand the world, but then they call climate change, not radical Islamic terrorism, the greatest threat to national security," he said. "Look, I think we all care about our planet, but melting icebergs aren`t beheading Christians in the Middle East." The comment came after the president,...
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