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Human activities to blame for unprecedented climate changes and global warming
2016-01-28 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delhi Daily News: A report by United Nation's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says that 2015 was the hottest year since 2000 and the researchers are blaming the greenhouse gases and the man-made activities for the fuelling heat waves and downpours. About fifteen of the 16 hottest years on record belonged to this century, the exceptionally strong El Nino and the greenhouse gases together had the effect on the climate system in 2015. The influence of El Nino will weaken in the upcoming time, but the effect...
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Here's One Climate Issue Ted Cruz Actually Gets Right
2016-01-27 23:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: With the Iowa caucuses just a week away, Ted Cruz is duking it out with Donald Trump. But Cruz is also taking a beating from a less well-known opponent: the biofuel industry. Apparently the ethanol folks don't like Ted Cruz... pic.twitter.com/3OEYBUrOmY -- David Biello (@dbiello) January 21, 2016 The problem is Cruz's stance on the Renewable Fuel Standard, a federal mandate that requires fuels made from corn, sugarcane, and other biological sources to be mixed into the nation's gasoline...
America's climate refugee crisis has already begun
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards will be swallowed by the rising tides. In 2017, it is projected that the highest point in Newtok - the school building - will be underwater. For these Alaskans, climate change is not just a global temperature...
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Momentum for insurance; No panacea for tackling climate risk
2016-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: David Bresch has headed the Sustainability & Political Risk Management Unit at Swiss Re in Zurich since 2008, and he has lectured on climate adaptation and risk insurance as an emerging tool to provide a kind of last line of defense for property owners from catastrophic climate damage. As nearly 200 nations headed into the Paris talks that concluded in December with the first truly global climate deal, leaders from Swiss Re and nearly 80 other companies including Toshiba Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and...
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Canada to set climate change tests pipeline reviews: Trudeau
2016-01-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Tuesday to require that environmental reviews of oil pipelines and LNG export projects consider greenhouse gas effects, and said it was not his role to be a cheerleader for such projects. The Liberal government said the new rules would be rolled out within days, and that they would take into account not just the greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed pipeline or liquefied natural gas terminal but also its "upstream" effects, meaning the impact...
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