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Climate change increases risk of kidney stones
2014-07-12 14:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: There is an increase in the number of people seeking medical treatment for kidney stones as climate change worsens, says a new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The researchers discovered a connection between the presence of hot days and the detection of kidney stones that affected 60,000 people in many cities in the U.S. found to have varying climates. "We found that as daily temperatures rise, there is...
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Climate change is flooding out American coastlines
2014-07-11 22:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Hurricane Arthur is no more than a holiday-dampening memory in the minds of many East Coast residents and visitors. But the 4.5-foot storm surge it produced along parts of North Carolina`s shoreline on July 4 was a reminder that such tempests don`t need to tear houses apart to cause damage. As seas rise, shoreline development continues, and shoreline ecosystems are destroyed, the hazards posed by storm surges from hurricanes are growing more severe along the Gulf Coast and East Coast. Two soggy...
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Climate change targets may not be enough prevent 2C global warming
2014-07-11 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Even if governments can agree on a global pact to cut carbon emissions in a crucial UN summit next year, it may already be too late to prevent the most devastating impacts of climate change, a new study has claimed. Analysts suggest the mitigation strategies and targets that negotiators already have in mind, ahead of the 2015 climate talks in Paris, are insufficient to limit global temperature rises to below 2C from pre-industrial times. This is the threshold suggested by scientists and agreed...
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Public opinion on climate change: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for policymakers?
2014-07-11 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: In all the discussion about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new climate change rule and power plants, there has not been much thought given to the poll numbers. Since policymakers are presumably in office to represent the public, let's take a look at the numbers from a variety of polls and see what they say. First, provided below is a graphic that provides a long-term perspective on climate change from a number of polls. It indicates that the majority of Americans have believed, for...
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Climate change solution: Scrap subsidies, fund innovation
2014-07-11 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Mark your calendars. November 30, 2015 is international climate D-Day. Representatives from 196 countries will meet in Paris for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to complete negotiations on a new international climate agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2020. Unfortunately, in the lead up to the negotiations there have been few new suggestions that deviate from the norm, signaling that Paris may be doomed to retread the tried-and-failed carbon targets and subsidy...
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