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Rio Olympic opening ceremony put climate change front and center
2016-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The Opening Ceremony at the Rio Olympics Friday evening was filled with celebrations of Brazilian culture and unity. But for a few brief moments, the message was polarizing and crystal clear: The world must do whatever it can to stop climate change. "The heat is melting the ice cap,' a voice said. "It's disappearing very quickly.' An accompanying segment showed effects of the melting polar ice cap and subsequent rising sea level on places that include Amsterdam, Dubai, Lagos, Shanghai, Florida...
Faith and climate change in Canadian politics
2016-08-06 12:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last week, about 2 million young people -- including nearly 4,000 Canadians -- gathered in Poland to hear Pope Francis speak at Catholic World Youth Day. Even if, like me, you're neither young nor Catholic, it is nevertheless an event with interesting ramifications for Canada and our politics. World Youth Day happens every few years, and this was the first edition since the Pope released his encyclical Laudato Si' in 2015, which focused on environmental and ecological issues. It is a bold document:...
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Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Reminds World That Climate Change Is Very Real
2016-08-06 10:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: The Opening Ceremony at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games may have opened up with a dance party, but it was a video on climate change watched by roughly 3.3 billion that made people stop what they were doing and focus on human-made pollution. The heat is melting the ice cap, a narrator said. Its disappearing very quickly. The video segment highlighted global carbon pollution, with projections of melting ice caps and rising sea levels in places like Amsterdam, Dubai, Florida, Shanghai, Lagos,...
Guam coral reefs damaged, harmed by climate change
2016-08-06 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Daily News: Unless you regularly explore Guams blue waters, its hard to see the impact climate change has had on coral reefs surrounding the island. Coral ecologist Laurie Raymundo of the University of Guam has been studying the island's coral for years. She said the island is on a coral bleaching alert that is expected to continue through the next few months. Rising seawater temperatures and other factors -- such as pollution and erosion -- have resulted in weakened, diseased and stressed coral. When...
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Hidden, local climate impacts of drought-friendly vegetation
2016-08-06 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: To address the recent drought in California, policymakers have created incentives for homeowners to replace existing lawns with drought tolerant vegetation. However, new research from George Ban-Weiss, an assistant professor in the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has found that these efforts might have some hidden consequences on local climate. Ban-Weiss and post-doctoral scholar Pouya Vahmani used a model of the Los Angeles basin...
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