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Climate change takes toll on Mount Kilimanjaro ice cap
2014-06-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily News: DEPUTY Minister in the Vice-Presidents Office (Environment), Ms Ummy Mwalimu, has said that Mount Kilimanjaro has from 1912 to date lost almost 30 per cent of its ice. Ms Mwalimu told the National Assembly that ice melting at the cap of the mountain was attributed to global warming, according to a research conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She was answering a question from Rajab Mbarouk Mohamed (Ole-CUF) who wanted to know about efforts taken by the government...
Climate Change Is Ruining One Of The Things That Makes Los Angeles A Unique Place To Live
2014-06-17 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: The city of Los Angeles is known for its wide sandy beaches, mild temperatures, and lack of humidity. The combination of cool winters and warm summers sets it apart from almost every other city in the nation. "Los Angeles is a hedonist's paradise," Matthew Kahn wrote in his 2010 book Climatopolis. But rising temperatures are already putting that paradise at risk. "Climate change will likely degrade LA's ideal climate," wrote Kahn. "In the future LA's climate will look like Jacksonville,...
Were failing the fight against climate change because women spend too much time on Facebook
2014-06-16 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Mashable`s Stephanie Buck is calling upon the women of the world to "dump Kimye" and "tackle climate change." Her call to action is based largely on a talk given by attorney and media correspondent Lisa Bloom last week at the 92Y S.H.E. Summit, which describes itself as "a global conversation and celebration of female potential and possibility that is accessible and relevant to women everywhere." Great idea, terrible execution, as becomes immediately apparent in Buck`s lede: "No one ever said...
Africa's climate change hot spots
2014-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Southern Times: Some areas in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe have been identified as part of climate change "hot spots' on the African continent, putting them at risk of numerous climatic challenges over the next two decades. A group of scientists in Germany say that, for the first time, they have identified the "hotspots of climate change in Africa,' which cover three regions where people should prepare for multiple climatic problems over the next 20 years. According to scientists from the Potsdam...
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Lord Stern: climate change risks greater previously estimated
2014-06-16 11:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The risks associated with climate change are greater than previously estimated because the model currently used fails to take into account the latest findings, according to research from Dr Simon Dietz and Prof Nicholas Stern of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Stern conducted a 2006 review looking at the economics of climate change, from a wide range of angles, such as water resources, food production and health. In it, he argues that climate change is the...
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