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Climate change raises a troubling question: Who gets to eat?
2016-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Policymakers on Capitol Hill got a dire warning that climate change threatens food production, safety and affordability. That stark message came in a briefing by the American Meteorological Society to congressional staff members, climate scientists and federal regulators that linked climate change to a host of troubling scenarios involving worldwide food availability. Wednesday's briefing drew on a peer-reviewed study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture released during the Paris Climate Conference...
Climate change grinding down coffee: Illy CEO
2016-01-22 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: Despite El Nino, climate change and other factors impacting coffee prices, Illy's chairman & CEO, Andrea Illy, remains confident that coffee demand is on the rise. Climate change is a threat to coffee production in the medium and long term, Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of Italian coffee company Illy, told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. "Coffee is one of the crops which is severely affected by climate change, which is a threat both in terms of too high temperature in some...
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Getting 196 Countries To Agree On Climate Change Was ?The Easy Part?
2016-01-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: For all those who thought settling the Paris climate agreement was enough to lead to a low-carbon economy, its time to wake up and smell the coffee. This message comes from none other than Christiana Figueres, who was instrumental in bringing 196 countries together to agree on the framework to limit runaway global warming. Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that while the talks were a success, "frankly, after 20 years of working towards that...
Rising global temperatures: when will climate change deniers throw in towel
2016-01-20 23:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Central Western Daily: At some point, you would think most climate change deniers would throw in the towel. Fifteen of the 16 hottest years on record have happened this century and the other year wasn't much earlier, in 1998. And 2015 was a breakaway year. Those reluctant to accept man-made climate change tend to resort to outlandish claims, such as the satellite data are doctored or that terrestrial weather stations operated by the Bureau of Meteorology have been manipulated to remove cooler readings to exaggerate...
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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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