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Which animals will cope with climate change droughts?
2016-06-21 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: JCU's Dr Tasmin Rymer led a study that produced a template measuring several crucial factors, including an animal's physiology and environment, to determine how it would handle a severe drought. Dr Rymer said scientists believe the current rate of climate change is unprecedented in Earth's history and will lead to more and worse droughts in many areas. "So we developed a theoretical framework that allows researchers to estimate the likelihood that a species will be able to cope," she said. Dr...
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Scale of climate damages could dwarf tobacco lawsuits
2016-06-21 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: As ExxonMobil case divides US top lawyers, campaigners advise governments to take on fossil fuel interests or face court themselves Fatuma lost 190 sheep and goats and 23 cattle because of the 2015 Ethiopian drought. She now has 10 goats and sheep and 2 cattle. (Pic: Abiy Getahun/Oxfam) Governments will face rising demands for climate compensation unless they crack down on coal, oil and gas companies operating within their authority That was the conclusion of a report by Australia-based...
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Fossil fuel companies impose more in climate costs than they make in profits
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: It is fairly well understood by now that releasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere imposes an economic cost, in the form of climate change impacts. In most cases, however, those responsible for carbon emissions are not required to pay that cost. Instead, it's borne mainly by the world's poor and low-lying countries, and of course by future generations, as many of the worst impacts of climate change will emerge years after the emissions that drive them. People sometimes...
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Peabody is paying Laurence Tribe to fight climate plan
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WSJ: A dragline excavator mines coal in this aerial photograph taken above the Peabody Energy Somerville Central strip mine in Oakland City, Ind. The company is paying Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe at least $435,000 to lead its opposition to the Obama administration's signature climate-change initiative. Photo: Bloomberg News Peabody Energy Corp., the nation's largest coal company, is paying at least $435,000 to Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe to lead its opposition to the...
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Scorching Hot Southwest Is Climate Change In Action
2016-06-21 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Scientists say if we keep burning fossil fuels at the same rate, pretty soon "what we think of as extreme summer heat" will become "typical." Deadly, record-breaking heat and wildfires sweeping across the Southwestern U.S. are a clear sign of manmade climate change at work, scientists say. Triple-digit temperatures began scorching Nevada, California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico early this week. Some of the most intense heat was recorded throughout Arizona, where four hikers died in separate...
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