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Climate change is altering Greenland ice sheet, accelerating sea level rise
2016-01-04 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The Greenland ice sheet has traditionally been pictured as a bit of a sponge for glacier meltwater, but new research has found it is rapidly losing the ability to buffer its contribution to rising sea levels, says a York University researcher. York U Professor William Colgan, a co-author on the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, helped analyse data from three expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet in 2012, 2013 and 2015. The research was done in conjunction with lead researcher...
Worldwide electricity production vulnerable to climate and water resource change
2016-01-04 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change impacts and associated changes in water resources could lead to reductions in electricity production capacity for more than 60% of the power plants worldwide from 2040-2069, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline. "Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants--which are nuclear, fossil-, and biomass-fueled plants converting...
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Get Used To Blackouts and Higher Electric Bills As the Climate Changes
2016-01-04 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Climate change could put at risk thousands of the world's power plants by the middle of the century, leading to outages and forcing countries to find alternative sources of energy, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found that as many as 86 percent of those hydro facilities could see notable...
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Here's the secret to making people care about climate change
2016-01-04 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Heres a depressing statistic if youre worried about climate change: 63 percent of Americans say theyre concerned about the issue, but only 47 percent think the government should do anything about it. That divide, known as the attitude-behavior gap, isnt all that uncommon. And activists and politicians have tried all kinds of strategies to address it. Theyve appealed to peoples better nature (Help save the children!) and to their self-interest (Youll get a tax write-off!). Each...
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Clean Air and Climate Change: Two Books to Get You Going
2016-01-03 05:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: A couple of years ago, my extended family gathered for Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. Looking across a splendid vista over the city, my 40-something nephew asked me, "Is it true that 40 years ago you couldn't see the hills on the other side?" Progress, I thought, that he really had no idea how smoggy it used to be. And that's a source of satisfaction for one who spent his career working to clean the air. But progress brings a new burden: to tell the history of how the air got cleaned up. And to...
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