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New White House Twitter acct pushes climate change agenda
2015-10-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The Obama administration launched @FactsOnClimate on Tuesday in a push for its climate change agenda. The Twitter account comes about six weeks before the topic takes center stage in Paris, where a new climate agreement will be crafted. President Obama may head to Paris "to participate in those discussions" at the beginning of the two-week negotiating period that starts on Nov. 30, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Monday. See also: Facebook, Target and Dell make big...
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Dalai Lama says climate change destroying Tibet 'roof of the world'
2015-10-21 15:10:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reatures: Tibet's exiled leaders, including the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 because of climate change and demanded a stake in international climate talks later this year. The Tibetan plateau, which has the largest store of ice outside the North and South Pole, has experienced rising temperatures of 1.3 Celsius over the past five decades, three times the global average, the leadership said in a statement. Tibet, with an average...
Climate change is killing the unsung heroes of the oceans: Krill
2015-10-20 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Have you thought about krill recently? No? Weird. Well then, allow me: Krill those tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that are among the most important marine wildlife are falling victim to climate change. And because of krills position on the food chain, this could be a very big problem. While you might not eat krill, that fish you had for lunch probably does, the New York Times reports: In the Southern Ocean, most marine life is a direct predator of krill or just one step removed. Diminishing...
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Alaskan Forest Fires Could Make Climate Change Much Worse
2015-10-20 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Gizmodo: If humans want to limit global warming, well need to drastically reduce our carbon pollution. We might need to do so even faster than our models suggest, because as scientists are now discovering, theres an additional factor working against us: fire. Last week, we learned that Indonesia is in the midst of a devastating fire season, one thats sending as much carbon skyward as the entire US economy. Indonesia isnt alone -- Western North America is currently recovering from one of the most brutal...
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A case study of climate change vs. human activity
2015-10-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Human activity has had at least as much effect as climate change on the survival of animals on the Bahamian island of Abaco, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at 10,000-year-old fossils found in an underwater cave on Abaco. They compared them with fossils from the island that date to 1,000 to 3,000 years ago, along with data from current vertebrate populations. The scientists found that during the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, some 17 bird species went extinct on Abaco because of...
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