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Link between unseasonal rains, disasters & climate change: Is India playing ostrich?
2015-05-17 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April , geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the opinion that the pressure that falls upon the underlying tectonic plates on account of excess rainfall and its ebb and flow in the river deltas of India and Bangladesh could have triggered the earthquake in the neighbouring country or at the least hastened its occurrence. Speaking to Newsweek, University College London's...
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Climate change brings disasters on steroids
2015-03-16 04:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SMH: Australia's $5 million contribution to address the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pam is a much-needed and welcome act. But remedial responses like this are not enough. Governments must also develop more proactive tools to help mitigate the impacts of disasters in the first place, including the displacement of people from their homes. Climate change-related displacement is happening now. It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu's population has been displaced by Cyclone...
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Climate Change: More Disasters Needed to Motivate Individual Behavior Change?
2014-09-26 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Over 310,000 people marched last Sunday to call for action on climate change. The People's Climate March aimed to press policymakers that would meet two days later at the UN Climate Summit, a preparation for the next Conference of the Parties (COP). Hundreds of thousands showing that despite of political slow action, awareness on climate change has increased in the last years, together with the feeling that it is the biggest crisis of our century. Climate change has increasingly influenced development...
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Safer climate disasters
2014-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Project Syndicate: Too often, participants in the climate-change debate make an erroneous distinction between protecting ourselves from the longer-term impact of global warming and better preparing ourselves against todays extreme weather events. Recent reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have sought to break down this artificial divide. While seeking to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, we must work toward more effective disaster-risk management. Adaptation to climate...
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Q&A: Could natural disasters and climate change keep people poor?
2013-10-21 04:36:23| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Natural disasters that have smacked Southeast Asia recently have killed scores of people and left severe damage in their wake. Recovery has begun, but the dent these events leave on the regions economies could derail international efforts to eradicate poverty, according to a recent report that looks at how climate change and exposure to severe weather impact different countries. As temperatures warm, many of the worlds poorest and most vulnerable citizens will face increased risks associated...
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