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Climate change increases the risk of war, scientists prove
2016-07-25 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Heatwaves, droughts and other severe weather events are increasing the risk of wars breaking out across the world, scientists say they have proved. The researchers carried out a statistical analysis of the outbreak of armed conflicts and climate-related natural disasters between 1980 and 2010. Their findings that nearly one in four conflicts in ethnically divided countries coincided with climatic calamities suggest that war should be added to the usual list of problems likely to be caused...
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Climate Column: Why Do Farmers Care About Climate Change? Rising Temperatures
2016-07-25 14:59:50| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education According to the USDA-led report Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation, The entire United States is likely to warm substantially over the next 40 years, with an increase of 1° to 2° C over much of the country. USDAs Regional […]
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Climate change of heart
2016-07-24 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquirer: PRESIDENT DUTERTE is no climate change denier. In fact, in his very first Cabinet meeting, he declared: Climate change is here. We were warned several years ago. He proceeded to underscore the vulnerability of our country to the effects of climate change by referencing Supertyphoon Yolanda, echoing what he had voiced out during the campaign period. This ready acknowledgment of the reality of global warming, coupled with his proenvironment stances (albeit equivocal), has caused green groups...
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Crib notes: Democrat convention to debate Clinton climate plan
2016-07-24 18:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate change barely featured at the US Republican National Convention in Cleveland, except in Donald Trump`s coded attack on the clean power plan. This week it`s the Democrats` turn in Philadelphia and you can expect building a low carbon economy to feature on the agenda. Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her running mate, seen as a safe centrist. He doesn`t tick all the climate hawk boxes, having opposed the Keystone XL pipeline but supported fracking and Atlantic...
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A sequel to the Paris Climate Accord takes shape in Vienna
2016-07-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: When negotiators from nearly 200 countries gathered outside Paris in December for the United Nations summit meeting on climate change, they reached the first agreement to take action on curbing their planet-warming pollution. This weekend in Vienna, with far less attention, negotiators from those same countries neared a deal that many environmentalists have called the most significant action this year to reduce global warming. While the Paris agreement aims to reduce the use of coal and oil, which...
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