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GOP candidates head to climate change doorstep for California debate
2015-09-16 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: When California Gov. Jerry Brown caught wind of the fact that top-tier GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson questioned the science behind climate change on a recent campaign swing through San Francisco, it seemed that Brown, a Democrat, could not help responding. His office shot off a note to Carson, along with a flash drive containing a 167-page United Nations report written by more than 800 scientists and surveying 30,000 scientific papers definitively concluding that human activity has exacerbated...
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Did Climate Change Create The Syrian Refugee Crisis?
2015-09-15 02:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Most of the nightmare scenarios attributed to global climate change have failed to materialize just yet, but recent studies have found that climate change may be to blame for the Syrian refugee crisis. When Syrian refugees leave their homes for neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon, and press on even further to destinations in the European Union and elsewhere, they are fleeing the violence and uncertainty of civil war, not climate change. But that civil war, fought between the government...
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"This is Future:" Gov. Brown Says Climate Change, Historic Drought Contributing Extreme Fires
2015-09-15 01:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: California Gov. Jerry Brown thanked firefighters for their courage Monday as they battled with nature to stop two fires raging in California that destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. "This is the future,' Brown said at a press conference Monday, warning that fires are "scary stuff' that were aggravated by a historic four-year drought and climate change. The Valley Fire, which started Saturday and grew to 61,000 acres (95 square miles) Monday or about twice the...
How Republicans Made Climate Change America's Most Divisive Political Issue
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: "Human kind ...cannot bear very much reality." --T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton It's been over a year since polling data found that climate change has emerged as America's most polarizing political issue. The survey, conducted by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, found that the divisiveness characterizing the climate debate is so strong it has eclipsed such longstanding hot-button issues as gun control, evolution, the death penalty and even abortion. And with President Obama recently...
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Climate Change and Killer Bees: Northward Expansion in California
2015-09-15 01:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The Africanized honey bee is a hybrid of the European and African honey bees. It was introduced to California in 1994, and has been rapidly expanding ever since. This "killer bee"--so-called because they attack intruders in numbers much greater than the European honey bees do--was recently seen as far north as California's Delta Region, according to University of California-San Diego researchers. "Our study shows that the large majority of bees one encounters in San Diego County are Africanized...
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