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Billionaire Warren Buffett-ed by winds of climate change
2016-02-28 22:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Tackling climate-related risks is a top priority for the Financial Stability Board in 2016, chair Mark Carney has told G20 finance ministers. In a letter released on Saturday, Carney set out how the Basel-based regulator plans to address "new and emerging vulnerabilities" in the financial system. Climate change was one of five issues listed. A crack team headed by Michael Bloomberg to shine a light on secret polluters will publish its objectives in April and make recommendations by the end...
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Democratic Party slams GOP presidential contenders over climate change views
2016-02-28 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Democratic Party released a video on Sunday slamming Republican presidential hopefuls for their opposition to action on climate change, suggesting the views clash with the reality of rising sea levels and shifting weather patterns. The video features Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his two closest rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, denying man-made global warming, juxtaposed with images of U.S. flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves. "I`m not a believer in climate change,"...
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For normally stoic farmers, stress of climate change can be too much to bear
2016-02-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The wind was unusually strong, and it swept across Saskatchewan farmland without warning or mercy to canola farmers who had just cut and laid out their crops to dry. Kim Keller, 31, remembers the mid-September day clearly. It was 2012, her first year working back on the familys 4,900-hectare grain farm in Gronlid, a hamlet about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. An auto insurance adjuster for the previous six years, Keller realized after a decade away that the farm is where she yearned to...
Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts
2016-02-28 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: As a provincial coroner and past palliative care physician, Dr. David Ouchterlony has seen suffering and death up close, experiences that have occasionally led to brief moments of sadness. But Ouchterlony describes such emotions as trivial compared to the dread he feels when thoughts about climate change linger, as they often do. He worries almost obsessively about a future he wont see. How will younger generations be affected? Why are we failing to act on the threat? I was completely blind...
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Climate change map shows regions to be hit hardest
2016-02-28 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: By developing this method, the global team of researchers has been able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability across the world. In a new study, a team of scientists developed a map that reveals which regions on Earth are more sensitive to climate variability. He further mentions that over the last 14 years these areas have shown great sensitivity to climate variability, with amplified responses over time. Called the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (SV), the metric allows a...
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