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Donald Trump supporters don't feel climate change
2016-09-06 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: Here's a frustrating find from Lawyers, Guns & Money: Who you support politically can alter your perception of the weather. Of course, it's about global warming--or rather, global warming and support of Donald Trump, as surveyed by Yale Law School's Cultural Cognition Project. December of 2015 was the warmest ever recorded in New Hampshire, by far. Indeed, in temperature anomaly terms (degrees above or below average) it was the warmest of any month for at least 121 years. January, February and...
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US and China the worlds two biggest polluters agree to ratify the Paris climate deal
2016-09-05 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mini Planet: The United States and China just announced that they will formally join the Paris climate agreement. The worlds top two contributors to global warming account for 37.98 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (17.89 percent US, 20.09 percent China). The Paris climate deal needs to be ratified by 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions in order for the agreement to enter into force. The US and China announcement brings the total ratifications to 26 and total emissions...
For Lizards, Climate Change Is A Deadly And Complex Threat
2016-09-05 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Lizards are expected to be hard hit by climate change - and a new study suggests it might be even worse for some lizards than scientists thought. Lizards are sensitive to global warming because they regulate their body temperature using the environment. They bask in the sun, and cool off in the shade. It's been predicted that about 40 percent of the world's lizard populations will die off by the year 2080, which means roughly 20 percent of lizard species will go extinct. That prediction was...
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Climate Change, Arctic Security, and Methane Risks
2016-09-05 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arctic Institute: Over the past year, the climate risks of methane (CH4) released from natural sources have attracted increasing media attention in scientific and media forums as the Arctic climate threat that nobodys even talking about yet.1) Scientific journals have likewise run articles detailing the risks that methane, in addition to CO2, poses to atmospheric climate change, following scientific research indicating the 2 degree Celsius limit of climate talks may be physically impossible.2) Methane therefore...
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Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal
2016-09-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The United States and China, the worlds biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have announced they will formally ratify the Paris climate change agreement in a move campaigners immediately hailed as a significant advance in the battle against global warming. Speaking on Saturday, on the eve of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, US president, Barack Obama, confirmed the long-awaited move, the result of weeks of intense negotiations by Chinese and American officials. Just as I believe the Paris agreement...
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