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Geoengineering Wont Fix Climate Change Researchers Say
2014-11-30 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Geoengineeringwhich sometimes seems to be the despairing climate scientists Plan Bsimply wont work. It wont offer a quick fix to the planets burden of global warming, and it will be difficult to convince anybody that it could work at all. Geoengineering is any deliberate, large-scale intervention in the workings of the climate machine that might offer a way of containing global warming. The accent is on the word deliberate. Humans are already engineering the climate just by continuously...
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Best and worst cities preparing for climate change
2014-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Global warming presents cities around the world with challenges that range from drought to storms to rising sea levels. Jeff Turrentine of OnEarth magazine tells Steve Curwood which cities are doing the most to prepare climate change, and which cities have yet to plan ahead. Transcript Dkaha, the capital of Bangladesh, is home to millions of climate refugees forced out of their homes elsewhere in the country. But the city itself lies just twelve feet above sea level, and flooding is an ever-increasing...
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Lima climate change talks best chance for a generation, say upbeat diplomats
2014-11-30 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: UN climate negotiations opening in Lima on Monday have the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming, diplomats say. After a 20-year standoff, diplomats and longtime observers of the talks say there is rising optimism that negotiators will be able to secure a deal that will commit all countries to take action against climate change. The two weeks of talks in Peru are intended to deliver a draft text to be adopted in Paris next year that will commit countries to reduce...
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WHO Report: Climate Change To Cause 250000 Extra Deaths A Year By 2030
2014-11-30 11:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: Climate change will be the cause of roughly 250,000 "extra" deaths a year by 2030, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization quantifying the future impacts of the changing climate on human health. Of this figure, roughly 48,000 will be via diarrhea; 60,000 via malaria; 95,000 via under-nutrition during childhood; and 38,000 via heat exposure (the elderly mostly) - according to the new report. Our planet is losing its capacity to sustain human life in good health, stated...
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Studies predict more bird losses than gains climate change
2014-11-30 08:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arizona Daily Star: These Arizona-dwelling birds will be big winners -- or losers -- by the end of this century, due to climate change and habitat degradation caused by land use changes. WINNERS -- Black-throated sparrow: Breeding range projected to rise by 34 to 47 percent from 2010 to 2099. -- Gray Vireo: 58 to 71 percent increase by 2099. -- Gambels quail: 61.8 percent increase expected from 2001 to 2075. -- Cactus wren: 54.1 percent increase expected by 2075. -- Gray vireo: 44.9 percent increase...
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