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Boulder scientist ties severity Colorado's 2013 flood climate change
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: The severe effects of the flooding across Colorado's northern Front Range in September 2013 and other recent extreme weather events likely were enhanced by human-caused global warming, according to a paper published Monday on which a Boulder scientist is the lead author. Severe storm events always have formed, and will continue to do so, out of the natural chaos of global weather. But the argument advanced by Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric...
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Climate change health risk is a medical emergency, experts warn
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned on Tuesday. Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves bring rising risks of infectious diseases, poor nutrition and stress, the specialists said, while polluted cities where people work long hours and have no time or space to walk, cycle or relax are bad for the heart as well as respiratory and mental health. Almost 200 countries...
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Sanders to Maher: Pope Franciss Forceful Stance on Climate Change Is Miracle for Humanity
2015-06-23 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Bernie Sanders presidential run is not to be underestimated. He has stunned the media with the turnout at his campaign events around the country, leaving pundits to call him the dark horse candidate who might upstage Hillary Clinton. Sanders has been speaking about the need to take meaningful action on climate change for years and its been a main talking point of his campaign. Last week, Clinton, in her first major campaign speech, called climate change one of the defining threats of our time....
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Climate change threatens to undermine the last half century of health gains
2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health, according to a major new Commission, published in The Lancet. However, the report provides comprehensive new evidence showing that because responses to mitigate and adapt to climate change have direct and indirect health benefits -- from reducing air pollution to improving diet -- concerted global efforts to tackle climate change actually represent one...
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In Santiago, Climate Change Fuels Choking Air Pollution
2015-06-23 14:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Thick clouds of heavy smog hung low in Santiago on Monday, a day of exceptional filth in Chiles pollution-stricken capital city. The haze forced more than 1,300 businesses to close after authorities declared an environmental emergency, the first of its kind since 1999. Approximately 80 percent of the citys 1.7 million cars were forced to park, and 100 percent of the citys 7 million people were warned to avoid outdoor activity. The warning was prudent one of the last times this happened, an...
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