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Keystone XL could be worse for climate change than US claims, say researchers
2014-08-11 00:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The worlds most debated pipeline could be worse for global warming than previously believed, a new economic analysis says. Keystone XL could produce four times more greenhouse gases than the U.S. State Department calculated in January those estimates did not take into account that the added oil from the pipeline is likely to decrease prices and increase consumption which would probably create more pollution, researchers say. There is no indication that the State Department took the market...
Australia: Push for climate change on G20 list
2014-08-10 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Three former Australians of the Year, including Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling for climate change to be included on the agenda for the G20 leaders summit to be held in Brisbane in November. Epidemiologist Fiona Stanley and immunologist Sir Gustav Nossal are among a dozen health experts supporting the call, published in the Medical Journal of Australia. ''Current climate trends, driven by global warming, threaten the basis of future...
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Q&A: Sen. Boxer on climate change, California drought
2014-08-10 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: Sen. Barbara Boxer, who leads the Environment and Public Works Committee, is on a trip to Amsterdam focusing on climate change. She is visiting the Dutch capital to see the city's adaptation techniques for coping with sea level rise, as well as to learn about the progress the city has made in moving toward clean energy to address climate change. Boxer, a Democrat from Rancho Mirage, was unavailable for a phone interview while traveling. But she responded by email to questions from The Desert Sun...
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Linking Climate Change to Extreme Weather
2014-08-10 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Real News Network: Dr. Jeff Masters has been a meteorologist for 33 years. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986 - 1991, and earned his Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology in 1997 from the University of Michigan. He co-founded the Weather Underground, Inc. in 1995, and served on its board of directors until the company was sold to the Weather Channel in 2012. He writes one of the most popular Internet weather blogs. Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm...
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Climate Change May Shrink The Ocean's Dead Zones
2014-08-09 00:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Some good may come from climate change after all. Dead zones, the most oxygen deprive portions of our world's oceans, may actually be due for some shrinkage due to changing atmospheric patterns and water temperatures, according to a recently study. The study, published in the journal Science, details how the oceans low-oxygen swaths of water are likely to shrink as climate change continues to weaken trade winds. "The tropics should actually get better oxygenated as the climate warms up," Curtis...
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