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Australia: Labor slams Turnbull government 'flip-flopping' on CSIRO climate research
2016-08-08 14:04:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Greg Hunt has revealed a plan to focus on climate science with millions more in investment that will create new jobs. The cuts had prompted widespread condemnation, and fears that Australia was undermining global efforts to monitor and predict climate change. The new strategy, which is yet to be fully devised, includes 15 new climate science jobs and research investment worth $37 million over 10 years. The government has increased CSIRO's agency-wide budget from $1.35 billion this financial...
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Warming climate expected to squeeze out Arctic bird habitat
2016-08-08 14:04:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: Many species of shorebirds that migrate to the Arctic each year to breed their young will lose substantial amounts of their summer habitat to climate change, and the biggest losses in the coming decades will be in Alaska and neighboring parts of Russia, new research concludes. By 2070, higher temperatures brought on by climate change will eliminate important Arctic breeding habitat for at least two-thirds of the 24 bird species evaluated in a study published in the journal Global Change Biology,...
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Rejection of experts spreads from Brexit to climate change with 'Clexit'
2016-08-08 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Brexit support and climate denial have many similarities. Many Brexit Leave campaign leaders also deny the dangers of human-caused climate change. Older generations were more likely to vote for the UK to leave the EU and are more likely to oppose taking action on climate change; younger generations disagree, and will be forced to live with the consequences of those decisions. On both issues theres also a dangerous strain of anti-intellectualism, in which campaigners mock experts and dismiss their...
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Climate change has made a mammal extinct, great job humanity
2016-08-08 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Metro: For the first time ever, human-driven climate change has caused the extinction of a mammal. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent, lived only in the Great Barrier Reef but has been wiped out by rising sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Delta Air Lines grounds ALL flights after massive system outage The long-tailed, whiskered creature lived only on Bramble Cay, a tiny island between Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was thought to be the only mammal native to the Great Barrier...
Carbon Markets See Positive Signal In New US Climate Guidance, But No Game Change
2016-08-08 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Earlier this week, the US Executive Office issued final guidance instructing all federal agencies to fully consider global warming and its impacts when making decisions and implementing activities. The guidances clear mention of land-based mitigation measures leads some practitioners to see market opportunity. Every federal agency of the US government must soon begin quantifying the impact of its activities both direct and indirect on the climate under new guidance that the administration...
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