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Experts 95 per cent certain 'humans are responsible for global warming'
2013-09-24 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The world's foremost authority on the greenhouse effect, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will release its most comprehensive study to date on Friday in Stockholm. The volume is expected to paint a bleak picture of climate change in the coming decades and make long-term projections for the melting of Arctic sea ice and the warning of ocean acidification. "The scientific evidence of ... climate change has strengthened year after year, leaving few uncertainties apart from...
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Can the Planet (and Humans) Survive Technology?
2013-09-13 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo!: Charles Dickens could have been talking about the 21st century when he wrote the lines: "These are the best of times, these are the worst of times." Technology can extend human life and take us into space, but it is also destroying the environment and threatening the survival of other species and humanity. Moving forward, what parts of nature should humans preserve? What will the future look like? Will we develop a stable, long-term relationship with technology? These were some of the issues a...
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Climate study finds humans had a hand in some extreme weather
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: A new report finds evidence that human-induced climate change played some role in last years U.S. heat waves and several other 2012 extreme weather events worldwide. The study released Thursday, written by scientists from 11 nations and edited by U.S. and British federal scientists, explored 12 extreme weather events and found some human influence in about half of them. The report shows that the effects of natural weather and climate fluctuations played a key role in the intensity and evolution...
GOP Rep Todd Rokita: Connecting Climate Change To Humans Is 'Arrogant'
2013-08-26 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) said Friday that he does not believe humans are responsible for climate change, according to The Purdue Exponent. I think its arrogant that we think as people that we can somehow change the climate of the whole earth when science is telling us that theres a cycle to all this, Rokita said in an interview with the college paper after a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Ind. And that cycle was occurring before the industrial revolution and I suspect will occur way into...
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Scientists more certain than they have ever been that humans are causing climate change
2013-08-21 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Scientists are more certain than they have ever been that humans are causing climate change and believe that sea levels could rise by up to 2ft 8in by the end of the century. These are among the key findings likely to be published next month in the most authoritative and comprehensive report ever conducted into climate science - the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) fifth assessment, known as AR5. According to a draft of the report, the certainty that humans are the main...
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