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Why The Rio Olympics And Leonardo DiCaprio Get Your Attention On Climate Change
2016-08-06 07:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: If you watched the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics Friday evening, social media was buzzing about the bold inclusion of a segment on climate change. The segment highlighted the perils of sea level rise on vulnerable nations and cities and also showed Ed Hawkins compelling visual spiral indicating global warming. I also noticed more activity on my social media platforms from people that normally do not talk about the topic. The overwhelming comments where things like wow, that was a wake up...
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First green, now gold: the climate changes in Rio
2016-08-06 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Morning Herald: Rio de Janeiro's opening ceremony made a virtue of a vice, and a statement of a virtue. The vice was a cut-price budget roughly a tenth of London's four years ago and spare change from Beijing's before that. You would hardly have known it. Brazil's approach was "gambiarra", meaning the peculiarly Brazilian talent to make something out of nothing. Its nearest English equivalent would be "jerry-built" or "jury-rigged". It is useful here for everyone from favella-dwellers to Olympic organising committees,...
In Olympics opening ceremony, Brazil goes big on climate change
2016-08-06 04:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Amid the pomp and circumstance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday, in between the fireworks and musical acts, the costumed performers and the camera shots of Gisele Bundchen dancing giddily alongside her fellow Brazilians in the crowd, came a more somber message. In primetime, with the world watching, Brazil showed a video focused on the problem of global warming and climate change. The video, narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Judi Dench, included maps and graphics showing...
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Rio Olympics opens with a powerful message about climate change
2016-08-06 04:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: An estimated 3 billion people worldwide received an introductory lesson about climate change by watching the Brazil Olympics opening ceremony. Rio took a sudden sobering turn (after a dance party) with a video showcasing ever-climbing global carbon pollution and projections of sea level rise. Here`s a clip: Great to see climate change science shown in #OpeningCeremony for #Rio2016 Thank you. pic.twitter.com/Qtgs0U99kQ -- Leilani Münter (@LeilaniMunter) August 6, 2016 A theme of the...
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Climate change shifting bird ranges
2016-08-06 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
London Free Press: In the middle of a hot summer, I think about the impact of climate change on birds. Bird scientists have been more focused on this issue over the past decade. Results range from sobering to intriguing. One of the largest recent studies was Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report. Using 30 years of citizen science data, future ranges of 588 North American birds were plotted. Various birds' ranges are expected to expand, shrink, or shift. As an example, by 2050 the hermit thrush -- a bird...
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