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Climate change explained with the help of Billy Nye and emoji
2015-06-26 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: While Barack Obama sat down with the legendary Sir David Attenborough in the White House to pick his mind about ways to save the planet, another luminary of the science world, Bill Nye, was doing his bit to educate the masses about climate change. And the Science Guy wasn't just lecturing people - he was teaching them the basics with the help of everyone's favourite new language, emoji. Nye, the TV host, comedian and science man, who made his name with the nineties PBS show "Bill Nye the Science...
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How climate change is threatening our health
2015-06-25 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Union-Tribune: In several recent surveys of physicians in the United States, close to 70 percent report that they are seeing the effects of climate change in their patients, here and now. As health professionals, we have a responsibility to point out that climate change is not just a climate issue its an urgent health issue. Its no coincidence that the White House picked the hashtag #ActOnClimate for its new climate change push: Its not just time to act; its overdue. Last year, the World Health Organization...
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Most extreme weather has climate change link, study says
2015-06-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In the wake of major hurricanes, floods and heat waves, scientists are quick to say that no single weather event can be attributed to climate change until careful analysis draws that conclusion. Now, a new study argues that thinking is backwards, that all extreme weather has a link to climate change. The default position has been holding science back in connecting weather and climate, concludes the authors of a peer-reviewed paper published Monday in Nature Climate Change. This "could be a...
Climate Change: Ice-Age Canada, Why It Melted
2015-06-23 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: We are zooming in close to the last ice age, looking at the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada then, with new research from Oregon State University. What happened may provide ideas as to how Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets may respond to a changing climate, scientists say. Here's what happened first: the Laurentide ice sheet began calving icebergs, then abruptly shifted to a focus on melting on the continent, say Oregon State researchers, who were funded by the National Science...
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Preventing 'catastrophic' climate change boost health worldwide, experts say
2015-06-23 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: World leaders must act now to prevent a rise in global temperatures which could be catastrophic for human health, and undermine all of the medical advances made in the last half century, experts have warned. In a stark report on climate change, experts said that the world is headed for a 4C rise in global temperatures, which would spark a rise in extreme weather events and infectious diseases such as malaria. The document advised politicians to invest in avoiding anything above a 2C rise...
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