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700 years of North Dakota coal vs. a climate rule
2016-09-20 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Cartwheeling wind turbines dot the green prairies outside North Dakota's capital, and as the state's "energy trail" snakes northward, billowing coal plants pop up in the distance. The scenery is a reminder of the challenges ahead for North Dakota, a state whose deep reserves of fossil fuels stand in contrast to federal climate regulations with requirements to decrease the release of greenhouse gases. North Dakota has one of the toughest goals in the country under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan....
UN 'certain' Paris climate deal will enter into force by end-2016
2016-09-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.N. officials have said they are confident the Paris climate change agreement will enter into force by the end of 2016, with at least 20 countries indicating they will join it at a U.N. event on Sept. 21, adding to the 27 that have already done so. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited states to deposit their instruments of ratification or approval of the Paris deal at the one-hour event on Wednesday morning. Leaders whose countries are not yet ready to join but plan to do so this year...
Why Do Farmers Care About Climate Change? Pathogens and Parasites
2016-09-19 15:36:06| National Farmers Union
By Tom Somrack, NFU Government Relations Intern Climate change affects the rate and spread of pathogen and parasitic diseases. According to the USDA Regional Vulnerability Assessments, warmer temperatures have resulted in insects, weeds, and crop diseases moving north and to higher elevations, or surviving winters that used to keep them in check. Overall, pest, weed, and […]
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Leonardo DiCaprio Climate Change Doc Heads To London Film Festival
2016-09-19 13:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deadline: The 60th BFI London Film Festival has added the Leonardo DiCaprio climate change documentary Before the Flood to its lineup, marking the European premiere of the film directed by actor and environmental activist Fisher Stevens. The film will feature as a special presentation in the program on Saturday, October 15. The film follows DiCaprio as he travels to five continents and the Arctic speaking to scientists, world leaders, activists and local residents to gain a deeper understanding of the dramatic...
Hesitance to link some weather events to climate change 'no longer appropriate'
2016-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The death and destruction from three days of relentless rain in Louisiana were just coming into grim focus when a team of international climate scientists started discussing whether they could quickly assess the downpour's link to climate change. By the time their study was published less than a month later, concluding that climate change made such an extreme rain event at least 40 percent more likely in the central Gulf Coast area in 2016 compared to 1900, the storm's staggering toll was clear....
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