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Climate Change Disaster Top Threat to Economy in 2016
2016-01-17 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A catastrophe caused by climate change is seen as the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016, according to a survey of 750 experts conducted by the World Economic Forum. The annual assessment of risks conducted by the WEF before its annual meeting in Davos on January 20-23 showed that global warming had catapulted its way to the top of the list of concerns. A failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation was seen as likely to have a bigger impact than the spread of weapons...
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Finnish climate change research in Africa pays off
2016-01-17 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
YLE: A monitoring station in South Africa, founded by a team of Finnish scientists, has proved invaluable in churning out data related to climate change. Although precise measurements of the atmosphere have been taken across the globe for years, those from the African continent have been lacking so far. The station, founded in 2006, is intended to provide information on the composition of particles in the planet's atmosphere, or aerosols. "These results represent the first continuous long-term...
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Has Paris Climate Conference Ended As A Talk Show?
2016-01-17 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Eureasia Review: After the initial excitement and euphoria over the draft agreement on climate issues arrived at the Paris climate conference, careful study of the proceedings, deliberations and agreements arrived at the conference, cannot but make one suspect that the conference has ended as a talk show,with several uncertainties and conflicts of interests remaining unsolved. The Paris climate summit acknowledges the need to aggressively address climate change, but it fails to detail with clarity as to how that...
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Climate change scepticism is 'political suicide', David Attenborough argues
2016-01-17 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It would be political suicide for a British political leader to admit they do not believe in global warming, Sir David Attenborough has argued. Sir David, the broadcaster and environmental campaigner, said climate change is now widely accepted by the public, with Britain already come round to the idea. He has previously spoken out extensively about the issues of climate change, conservation and population growth, last year attending a global summit in Paris. In an interview with the...
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Climate extremes threaten Australias wine industry
2016-01-17 01:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Winemakers in Australia's oldest growing region fear a ruined harvest after heavy rainfall, while vineyards in the country's west are under threat from bushfires, undermining efforts to recover from a near decadelong run of lower exports. Just weeks out from the 2016 harvest, the contrasting events highlight the challenges from climate change, particularly extreme weather, faced by the world's fourth-largest wine exporter. Not only are wine growing regions getting hotter, weather is also becoming...
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