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Challenges facing Kiribati indicate what climate change could mean at its worst
2016-02-17 06:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dominion Post: Floating islands, builtup land, and refuge in Fiji are among the evacuation options Kiribati's government has considered to combat rising seas. Some of Kiribati's islands may disappear under the sea this century, President Anote Tong told New Zealand dignitaries, scientists and island representatives at the first Pacific Climate Change conference in Wellington this week. Some scientists believe Kiribati's chain of 33 atolls and islands, which stand just metres above sea level, could be uninhabitable...
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Tackling Climate Change Through Profits
2016-02-16 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last month in Davos, the World Economic Forum released the results of a survey of 750 experts on the "most significant long-term risks worldwide." This year the survey was unequivocal: failing to act on climate change is the number one global risk. Coming on the heels of global climate talks in Paris late last year, this warning underscores the importance of the ambitious agreement world leaders achieved at COP21 to keep global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less. The 2015 Paris Climate Conference...
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Climate change may affect flight duration
2016-02-15 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: The study calculates that a transatlantic aircraft will spend an extra 2,000 hours in the air every year. Flights from London to New York could take longer and be more expensive in the future due to the effects of climate change, according to a new study that may have implications for the aviation industry. By accelerating the jet stream - a high-altitude wind blowing from west to east across the Atlantic - climate change will speed up eastbound flights but slow down westbound flights, the...
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Why don't we treat climate change with rigor give to terror attacks?
2016-02-15 12:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Extreme weather, water shortages and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like Zika are all having very real effects on everyday realities globally, and they are all linked to a fast-heating earth system. Yet we still dont treat climate change with the reverence we reserve for something like a terrorist attack. Maybe the blame goes deeper, into our very natures: evolution did not design our bodies to treat climate change with urgency. Evolutionary responses favor real-time threats, not those...
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Want to fight climate change? Eat more beans
2016-02-14 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Climate change may seem to many of us a challenge too daunting to tackle directly through our own actions. But there is one small change each of us can do to play our part shifting our diets to be healthier and more environmentally sustainable. The type of food we choose to eat makes up a big part of our personal carbon footprint. The meat and dairy that make up 22 percent of developed world diets are responsible for emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases, particularly methane and nitrous...
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