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Maine Oyster Farm Tackles Climate Change
2016-04-14 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: A Maine oyster hatchery is sounding the alarm about climate change's effect on the shellfish industry. Greenhouse gas emissions are making the ocean more acidic, which can interfere with the ability of oysters to develop their shells.
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Consensus on Consensus: 97% of the Worlds Climate Scientists Say Humans Are Causing
2016-04-13 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new study confirms the expert consensus that humans are causing climate change, with a meta-analysis of research showing a convergence on the 97 percent agreement figure among climate scientists. We know how much deniers love questioning the scientific consensus, so we can only imagine how they will react to a consensus on the consensus. After years of attacks on John Cook`s 2013 paper finding a 97 percent consensus among climate change papers and experts, Cook pulled together a dream team of...
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97% of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans, study finds
2016-04-13 15:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: 97 per cent of scientists agree that climate change is caused by humans, an American study has claimed. Significantly, the researchers behind the study also found that the more knowledge of climate science these scientists have, the more likely they are to believe in human-caused climate change. The study, published recently in the Environmental Research Letters journal, was conducted by a team from Michigan Technological University. It was compiled through the analysis of seven previous...
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Why dead coral reefs could mark beginning of dangerous climate change
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post: The island of Kiritimati is one of the worlds most remote places -- one of several dozen atolls making up the tiny island nation of Kiribati, a speck in the Pacific Ocean more than a thousand miles south of Hawaii. But, isolated as it is, news of its devastated coral is turning heads around the world. A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die-off -- an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around...
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U.N. climate chief predicts Paris deal will take effect early
2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new global pact to tackle climate change, agreed in Paris in December, could come into force two years earlier than the planned date of 2020, the U.N. climate chief has said. "I think we will have a Paris agreement in effect in 2018, predicted Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a lecture in London on Monday evening. The agreement, originally slated to take effect in 2020, will come into force once 55 countries representing...
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