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Urban heat island effect big factor in climate change, Hong Kong records show
2014-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
South China Morning Post: Temperature and rainfall are the two most basic elements in climate change. So what can we learn from a study of local temperature records and why might it be that local factors other than carbon dioxide output are the main cause of rising temperatures in our city? Climate change is defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as that attributable directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and is in addition to natural...
Climate Change: It's Only Human To Exaggerate, But Science Itself Does Not
2014-10-19 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science 2.0: To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration and the complementary art of simplification are the basic rhetorical tools of human intercourse. So yes, scientists do exaggerate. So do politicians, perhaps even when, as the UKs former environment secretary Owen Paterson did, they claim that climate change forecasts are widely exaggerated. A more pertinent question is: does the way in which scientists and politicians speak publicly lead to wild exaggeration? When both are engaged...
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More urgent than Ebola, climate change is a bigger threat and we need to act now
2014-10-18 22:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mirror: The biggest threat to mankind is not war and international conflict its the fact that most governments never think about the long term. This week the US Defense Department said natural disasters from climate change will lead to more instability, disease and poverty. Ive been in Geneva for a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a group of politicians from 160 countries which champions human rights. I last visited Geneva eight years ago to discuss with the United Nations World...
Florida politicians battle rhetoric as rising seas drive worries over climate change
2014-10-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: At least twice in a normal year, the Biscayne Bay rises to swamp the streets of this fashionable resort town in an event known as the king tide. Water spills over seawalls and gurgles up through storm drains in what scientists say is a preview of life in Florida in a warming climate. But this is an election year, when even nature becomes a foil for competing political narratives. When a highly anticipated king tide hit the Florida coast last week, state and local officials surged into action...
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Fossil fuel divestment: climate change activists take aim at Australia's banks
2014-10-18 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists will aim to give the big banks a $200m bloody nose on Saturday, in the latest round of what has been an increasingly bitter campaign to force the divestment of companies with fossil fuel interests. A national day of divestment will see more than 1,000 bank customers switch their accounts away from the big four banks: ANZ, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank and NAB. Campaign organisers Market Forces and 350.org claim that the major banks have already lost $250m worth of...
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