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Climate Change Could Cause Power Blackouts Worldwide
2016-01-09 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
TakePart: The record heat waves and devastating droughts that accompany climate change could also hurt the worlds electricity production, according to a new study. As temperatures warm and drought periods grow longer and more severe over the next 50 years, the water levels in rivers and lakes are expected to fall. For 98 percent of the worlds power plants, thats a problem that could result in a 30 percent decrease in electricity production in some months at most power stations. Natural water flow...
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Trump: Obama a hypocrite on climate change
2016-01-09 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday accused President Obama of hypocrisy, saying he spews pollutants from Air Force One in order to deliver speeches on the threat of climate change. Watch Obama talking about the carbon footprint, and then he flies over Hawaii in an old 747 with the old engines spewing the hell out of it, Trump said at a rally in Iowa. And then he gives a speech about global warming and the carbon footprint, he added. Gets into Air Force One, which...
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Why climate change is an ethical problem
2016-01-09 18:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Stephen M. Gardiner is professor of philosophy, and Ben Rabinowitz is endowed professor of the human dimensions of the environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. Climate change presents a severe ethical challenge, forcing us to confront difficult questions as individual moral agents, and even more so as members of larger political systems. It is genuinely global and seriously intergenerational, and crosses species boundaries. It also takes place in a setting where existing institutions...
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Reforestation policies need to consider climate change, study finds
2016-01-09 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Study at the Polytechnic University of Valencia finds that local pine species are not necessarily the best option for repopulating burn sites. For the past six years, researchers at the Universitat Politnica de Valncia (Polytechnic Univeristy of Valencia, UPV) have been studying the performance of twelve Aleppo pine varieties native to different regions of Spain in reforestation campaigns across three national forest areas. Different varieties or genotypes have different levels of resistance to...
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Dealing with climate change in Costa Rica's treasured Monteverde cloud forest
2016-01-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tico Times: Climate change is one of the most troubling problems of the decade. It already has caused significant consequences across the globe, and Costa Rica is no exception. The cloud forest of Monteverde, in north-central Costa Rica, is one of the greenest tourist destinations in the country, and it has witnessed the consequences of climate change. Since the 1970s, the Tropical Scientific Center, or TSC, has been tasked with recording these consequences in different areas of the country, especially in...
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