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What determines whether people accept climate science? Politics, politics, politics
2016-02-24 02:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: What kind of person doesn`t believe that climate change is a problem? What kind of person does? Behold a new set of answers to this thorny social science question, released earlier this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. Or rather, a whole lot of old answers, derived from data assembled over the last eight years: 12 Pew surveys, 3 British polls collected by the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change, an International Social Survey conducted across 32 countries, 8 Australian polls,...
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Canadians Split Role Of Humans On Climate Change
2016-02-24 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: Although the majority of Canadians believe that climate change is real, some think that it is partly or mostly caused by human activities, while some do not think so. A new study conducted by researchers from four different universities found that public opinion about climate change is significantly divided. The group of scientists from the University of Montreal, Yale University, University of California Santa Barbara, and Utah State University had surveyed a total of 5,000 Canadians over...
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Increased flooding in US coastal cities caused by climate change, study says
2016-02-23 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rising sea levels are putting increasing pressure on US coastal cities, with a new analysis showing that human-driven climate change is to blame for three-quarters of the coastal flooding events over the past decade. The Climate Central research shows that coastal flooding days have more than doubled in the US since the 1980s, the primary drivers of which have been the warming of the atmosphere and oceans. The findings are based on a separate study, released on Monday, that found the Earths seas...
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Time to de-couple Canada-US climate change plans
2016-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: It has been drummed into our heads for a decade: Canada must move in lock-step with the United States on climate change. It would be crazy economic policy to regulate oil and gas emissions ahead of the United States, former prime minister Stephen Harper told Parliament just over a year ago. Were clearly not going to do it. His government never did. Now Canada has a new prime minister who has promised to take a global leadership role in the development of a low-carbon economy. Next...
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Searing heat waves detailed in study of future climate
2016-02-23 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] BOULDER — Sweltering heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60 percent of Earth's land surface by 2075, if human-produced greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked. If stringent emissions-reductions measures are put in place, however, these extreme heat events could be reduced significantly. Even so, 18 percent of global land areas would still be subjected yearly to these intense heat waves, defined as three exceptionall…
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