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Lake Erie Toxic Algae, Blame Climate Change And Invasive Mussels
2014-10-17 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Lake Erie is increasingly plagued by toxic algae blooms each summer, and a new study suggests how climate change and mussels, of all things, may be to blame. On Thursday, the Columbus Dispatch reported on the new research and computer modeling, which show neither rising water temperatures nor runoff from fertilizers and sewage - the traditional causes cited - fully account for the blooms. According to the paper, published in Water Resources Research, climate change may be providing cyanobacteria...
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Oxfam: inaction and financial short-termism putting millions at climate change risk
2014-10-17 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A toxic triangle of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests is preventing action to curb climate change, putting millions of people at risk of food and water shortages, Oxfam has warned. In a damning new report, the leading poverty charity estimates that current global warming trends, which will result in a world 4-6C warmer by 2100, could leave 400 million people blighted by famine and drought by mid-century. While warming of this magnitude would have...
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Australia: Climate change forcing rethink on fire risk, RFS chief Shane Fitzsimmons says
2014-10-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change is having an impact on every level of fire management, the New South Wales rural fire chief has said on the first anniversary of the Blue Mountains bushfires. The NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said with more days of high fire danger, there is now a shrinking window of opportunity to carry out back-burning and other hazard reduction. "If our window of opportunity continues to shrink, in order to get those really important pre-season activities underway...
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US, Military to Plan More Strategically for Climate Change
2014-10-16 21:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Climate change is a threat multiplier and worse than many of the challenges the U.S. military is already grappling with, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The New York Times indicated that the report marks a departure from the DoDs previous focus on preparing bases to adapt to climate change. The DoD now calls on the military to incorporate climate change plans in its strategic thinking and budgeting. Among the future trends that will impact our national security...
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Global natural gas boom alone won't slow climate change
2014-10-16 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new analysis of global energy use, economics and the climate shows that without new climate policies, expanding the current bounty of inexpensive natural gas alone would not slow the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions worldwide over the long term, according to a study appearing today in Nature. Because natural gas emits half the carbon dioxide of coal, many people hoped the recent natural gas boom could help slow climate change -- and according to government analyses, natural gas did...
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