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Ancient pool of warm water questions current climate models
2013-04-03 20:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes. Present in the Pliocene era, this giant mass of water would have dramatically altered rainfall in the tropics, possibly even removing the monsoon. Its decay and the consequential drying of East Africa may have been a factor in Hominid evolution. Published in Nature today, the missing data for this...
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Nigeria: African Countries Tackle Water Scarcity to Combat Climate Change
2013-03-08 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Trust: African countries are creating more reliable and accurate climate information, and building more durable, climate-resilient infrastructure across the sectors as part of strategies to cushion the impact of climate change. A statement issued by the United Nations backed Climate Investment Fund (CIF) said that the African strategy was supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the CIF with the intention of responding to complex problems that climate change was creating on their combined sectors...
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Climate change putting stress on Kansas water resources
2013-03-02 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Lawrence Journal World: The current drought gripping all of Kansas and much of the western United States may seem severe now, but it is not abnormal for a region that has seen cyclical droughts for much of the last 1,000 years. What ought to concern Kansans more, a panel of experts said during a symposium Friday night at Kansas University, is the longer-term change in the regions climate that will put greater demand on the states dwindling water resources. From a climate perspective, it looks like its going to...
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