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How big oil spent $10m to defeat California climate change legislation
2016-02-05 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The oil industry spent more than $10m lobbying state lawmakers in a massive push to kill California climate change legislation last year, new disclosures have revealed. Much of the money spent by big oil was targeted at a specific piece of legislation, SB-350, that would have mandated a 50% reduction in gasoline use in the state by 2030 in addition other climate change initiatives. The bill was a marquee piece of legislation for Governor Jerry Brown and Democratic state leaders in advance of...
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Early 2014 UK flooding made more likely by climate change
2016-02-05 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: In places like California, researchers have been working to understand how climate change is affecting droughts. But in the UK, its unusually wet weather making headlines of late. Southern England and Wales got soaked over the winter that ran into January 2014, leading to near-historic flooding. This led to a natural question: did climate change have a hand in it? Climate is basically the statistics of weather, so the way we answer this is to use climate models to look for a change in those statistics....
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These 13 People Could Become Britain First Ever Climate Prisoners
2016-02-05 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Later this month, a judge in the UK is set to jail 13 non-violent protestors who occupied one of the runways at London Heathrow in July last year. The protest, the first ever on a Heathrow runway, lasted six hours and caused the delay or cancellation of some 25 flights. It was carried out by activists from Plane Stupid, who are opposed to airport expansion. In their trial last month the activists--known as the Heathrow 13--tried to argue the necessity defense in that their actions were...
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Has the Southwest Shifted to a 'Drier Climate State'?
2016-02-05 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The Southwest is already the most arid part of the U.S. Now new research indicates it's becoming even more dry as wet weather patterns, quite literally, dry up. The change could herald a pattern shift and raises the specter of megadrought in the region. Precipitation across the U.S. that can be attributed to these changes in weather patterns. The gray dots show areas where the results are statistically significant. "We see a very intense trend in the Southwest,' Andreas Prein, a postdoctoral...
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Climate change's frost harms early plant reproduction, study finds
2016-02-05 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology. Climate change has many ecological effects, such as altering flowering phenology, or the blooming time of wildflowers, across the world. Altering blooming time often affects plant reproduction and survival, but the mechanisms behind these changes are not well understood. The researchers used two large-scale field experiments to assess how altering the phenology of the western spring beauty affects plant-pollinator interactions and plant...
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